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Record Nr.

UNINA9910743210803321

Autore

Knox Hannah <1977->

Titolo

Thinking like a climate : governing a city in times of environmental change / / Hannah Knox

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Durham : , : Duke University Press, , 2020

ISBN

1-4780-0981-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Classificazione

AR 28100

Disciplina

363.738/745610942733

Soggetti

Climatic changes - Government policy - England - Manchester

Climatic changes - Research - England - Manchester

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Thinking Like a Climate -- Contact Zones -- Climate Change in Manchester: An Origin Story -- 41% and the Problem of Proportion -- Giving Climate a Body -- The Carbon Life of Buildings -- Footprints and Traces, or Learning to Think like a Climate -- Footprints, Objects, and the Endlessness of Relations -- Mitigation to Adaptation -- An Irrelevant Apocalypse: Futures, Models, and Scenarios -- Cities, Mayors, and Climate Change -- Stuck in Strategies -- Rematerializing Politics -- Test Houses and Vernacular Engineers -- Activist Devices and the Art of Politics -- Symptoms, Diagnoses, and the Politics of the Hack -- Conclusion: "Going Native" in the Anthropocene.

Sommario/riassunto

"Drawing on ethnographic research with policy makers, politicians, activists, scholars, and the public in Manchester, England, Hannah Knox confronts the challenges climate change poses to knowledge production and modern politics."--