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Author: Hannah Knox
Publisher: Duke University Press
Imprint: Duke University Press
Weight: 0.590kg
ISBN: 9781478009818
ISBN 10: 1478009810
Pages: 277
Publication Date: 02 October 2020
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Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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We know that industrial activity is altering our planet's atmosphere, and that we need to act fast to mitigate it. But what should we do, exactly? Through her careful and inventive exploration of climate change activism in Manchester, anthropologist Hannah Knox provides pathways to answering this vital yet difficult question. Her stellar ethnography demonstrates that we will learn how to 'think like a climate,' building connections rather than boundaries. -- Goekce Gunel, author of * Spaceship in the Desert: Energy, Climate Change, and Urban Design in Abu Dhabi * What makes climate change mitigation so challenging, even for activists and municipal officials committed to the project? Working with planners experts and citizens seeking to redress the most pernicious impacts of climate change in Manchester, Hannah Knox produces the most stunning and thought-provoking ethnographic account of climate change that I have read. She urges us to consider climate change as a 'form of thought'-a pattern produced when spreadsheets, green moralities, technologies, and modes of calculation interact. These interactions, she argues, remake not just what climate means, or what counts as climate action. They also demand nothing less than a revolutionary transformation of our understandings of humanity and responsibility in the contemporary moment. -- Nikhil Anand, author of * Hydraulic City: Water and the Infrastructures of Citizenship in Mumbai *
We know that industrial activity is altering our planet's atmosphere, and that we need to act fast to mitigate it. But what should we do, exactly? Through her careful and inventive exploration of climate change activism in Manchester, anthropologist Hannah Knox provides pathways to answering this vital yet difficult question. Her stellar ethnography demonstrates that we will learn how to 'think like a climate,' building connections rather than boundaries. -- Goekce Gunel, author of * Spaceship in the Desert: Energy, Climate Change, and Urban Design in Abu Dhabi * What makes climate change mitigation so challenging, even for activists and municipal officials committed to the project? Working with planners, experts, and citizens seeking to redress the most pernicious impacts of climate change in Manchester, Hannah Knox has produced the most stunning and thought-provoking ethnographic account of climate change that I have read. She urges us to consider climate change as a 'form of thought'-a pattern produced when spreadsheets, green moralities, technologies, and modes of calculation interact. These interactions, she argues, not only remake what climate means, or what counts as climate action: they demand nothing less than a revolutionary transformation of our understandings of humanity and responsibility in the contemporary moment. -- Nikhil Anand, author of * Hydraulic City: Water and the Infrastructures of Citizenship in Mumbai *
What makes climate change mitigation so challenging, even for activists and municipal officials committed to the project? Working with planners experts and citizens seeking to redress the most pernicious impacts of climate change in Manchester, Hannah Knox produces the most stunning and thought-provoking ethnographic account of climate change that I have read. She urges us to consider climate change as a 'form of thought'-a pattern produced when spreadsheets, green moralities, technologies, and modes of calculation interact. These interactions, she argues, remake not just what climate means, or what counts as climate action. They also demand nothing less than a revolutionary transformation of our understandings of humanity and responsibility in the contemporary moment. -- Nikhil Anand, author of * Hydraulic City: Water and the Infrastructures of Citizenship in Mumbai *
Author Information
Hannah Knox is Associate Professor of Anthropology at University College London, coauthor of Roads: An Anthropology of Infrastructure and Expertise, and coeditor of Ethnography for a Data-Saturated World and Objects and Materials: A Routledge Companion.
