Horizon work : at the edges of knowledge in an age of runaway climate change / Adriana Petryna.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Petryna, Adriana, 1966- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Climate change mitigation.

Climatic changes--Forecasting.

Climatic changes.

Climatic changes--Social aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (225 pages)

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, [2022]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

A new way of thinking about the climate crisis as an exercise in delimiting knowable, and habitable, worlds As carbon dioxide emissions continue to rise, Earth’s fragile ecosystems are growing increasingly unstable and unpredictable. Horizon Work explores how climate change is disrupting our fundamental ability to project how the environment will act over time, and how rapidly faltering projections are colliding with the dangerous new realities of emergency respon se.Anthropologist Adriana Petryna examines the climate crisis through the lens of “horizoning,” a mode of reckoning that considers unnatural disasters against a horizon of expectation in which people and societies can act. She talks to wildfire scientists who, amid chaotic fire seasons and shifting fire behaviors, are revising predictive models calibrated to conditions that no longer exist. Petryna tells the stories of wildland firefighters who could once rely on memory of previous fires to gauge the behaviors of the next. Trust in patterns has become an occupational hazard. Sometimes, the very concept of projection becomes untenable. Yet if all we see is doom, we will overlook something crucial about the scientific and ethical labors needed to hold back climate chaos. Here is where the work of horizon ing begins.From experiments probing our planetary points of no return to disaster ecologies where the stark realities of climate change are being confronted, Horizon Work reveals how this new way of thinking has the power to reverse harmful legacies while turning voids where projection falters into spaces of collective action and recoverable futures.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Prologue

1. What Is the Upper Limit?

2. Building Perceptual Range

3. When Paths Disappear

4. Horizon Work

5. “Throw Away Your Mental Slides”

6. “You Can’t Take Fire Away”

7. Witnessing Professionals

8. “Waiting for a Reality Response”

9. Going through the Porthole

10. Beneath the Airshow

Horizon Work in a Time of Runaway Climate Change

Acknowledgments

Note

Bibliography

Index

A Note on the Type

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780691232591

0691232598

OCLC:

1312726545