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

"THINKING LIKE A CLIMATE explores how climate change specifically and anthropocenic processes more broadly are affecting human experiences of being in the world. Based on fieldwork in Manchester, England, the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution, Hannah Knox analyzes the ways in which electe...

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Place / Publishing House:Durham, North Carolina : : Duke University Press,, [2020]
2020
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (329 pages) :; illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.