Thinking like a Climate : Governing a City in Times of Environmental Change / Hannah Knox.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Knox, Hannah, 1977- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social sciences.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (329 p.)

Place of Publication:

Duke University Press 2020

[s.l.] : Duke University Press, 2020.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In Thinking Like a Climate Hannah Knox confronts the challenges that climate change poses to knowledge production and modern politics. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork among policy makers, politicians, activists, scholars, and the public in Manchester, England-birthplace of the Industrial Revolution-Knox explores the city's strategies for understanding and responding to deteriorating environmental conditions. Climate science, Knox argues, frames climate change as a very particular kind of social problem that confronts the limits of administrative and bureaucratic techniques of knowing people, places, and things. Exceeding these limits requires forging new modes of relating to climate in ways that reimagine the social in climatological terms. Knox contends that the day-to-day work of crafting and implementing climate policy and translating climate knowledge into the work of governance demonstrates that local responses to climate change can be scaled up to effect change on a global scale.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Abbreviations

Preface and Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I Contact Zones

Part II Rematerializing Politics

Conclusion

Notes

References

Index

Notes:

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781478090571

147809057X

Publisher Number:

https://doi.org/10.1215/9781478012405

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access