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Record Nr.

UNINA9910830451903321

Autore

Whitehead Mark <1975->

Titolo

State, science and the skies : governmentalities of the British atmosphere / / Mark Whitehead

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chichester, United Kingdom ; ; Malden, MA : , : Wiley-Blackwell, , 2009

ISBN

1-4443-0787-8

1-4443-9986-1

1-282-33161-2

9786612331619

1-4443-0788-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (293 p.)

Collana

RGS-IBG Book Series

Disciplina

363.73920941

Soggetti

Air - Pollution - Government policy - Great Britain

Air quality - Government policy - Great Britain

Science and state - Great Britain

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : space, history and the governing of air pollution -- Historical geographies of science and government : exploring the apparatuses of atmospheric knowledge production -- Science, sight and the optics of air government -- Governing air conduct : exhibition, examination and the cultivation of the atmospheric self -- Instrumentation and the sites of atmospheric monitoring -- A national census of the air : spatial science, calculation and the geo-coding of the atmosphere -- Automating the air : atmospheric simulations and digital beings -- Environmental governmentalities and the ecological coding of the British atmosphere -- Conclusion : learning like a state in an age of atmospheric change.

Sommario/riassunto

Utilizing environmental archival materials from the UK, State, Science and the Skies presents a groundbreaking historical account of the development of a state science of atmospheric pollution. Offers the most extensive historical and geographical account of atmospheric government and pollution in Britain, available todayPresents archival material from 150 years of British history that represents an original



contribution to our knowledge of the history of science and governmentDevelops an innovative combination of Foucauldian history of government with a history of atmos