State, science and the skies : governmentalities of the British atmosphere / / Mark Whitehead
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| Autore: |
Whitehead Mark <1975->
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| Titolo: |
State, science and the skies : governmentalities of the British atmosphere / / Mark Whitehead
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| Pubblicazione: | Chichester, United Kingdom ; ; Malden, MA : , : Wiley-Blackwell, , 2009 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (293 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 363.73920941 |
| Soggetto topico: | Air - Pollution - Government policy - Great Britain |
| Air quality - Government policy - Great Britain | |
| Science and state - Great Britain | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | State, science and the skies |
| ISBN: | 1-4443-0787-8 |
| 1-4443-9986-1 | |
| 1-282-33161-2 | |
| 9786612331619 | |
| 1-4443-0788-6 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910265230703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
RGS-IBG book series.