In this Book
- Thinking Like a Climate: Governing a City in Times of Environmental Change
- Book
- 2020
- Published by: Duke University Press
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
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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.
Table of Contents

- Title Page, Copyright Page
- pp. i-vi
- Abbreviations
- pp. ix-x
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- pp. xi-xiv
- Part I | Contact Zones
- pp. 33-34
- How the Climate Takes Shape
- pp. 63-66
- Two. The Carbon Life of Buildings
- pp. 67-88
- When Global Climate Meets Local Nature(s)
- pp. 122-126
- Cities, Mayors, and Climate Change
- pp. 156-158
- Five. Stuck in Strategies
- pp. 159-176
- Part II | Rematerializing Politics
- pp. 177-178
- Six. Test Houses and Vernacular Engineers
- pp. 179-204
- References
- pp. 285-304
Additional Information
ISBN
9781478012405
Related ISBN(s)
9781478009818, 9781478010869, 9781478090571
MARC Record
OCLC
1162544694
Pages
326
Launched on MUSE
2020-09-08
Language
English
Open Access
Yes
Creative Commons
CC-BY-NC-ND
Copyright
2020