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Weather, Climate, and the Geographical Imagination: Placing Atmospheric Knowledges [Kõva köide]

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  • Formaat: Hardback, 360 pages, kõrgus x laius: 229x152 mm, 22 b&w
  • Sari: Intersections: Histories of Environment
  • Ilmumisaeg: 30-Sep-2020
  • Kirjastus: University of Pittsburgh Press
  • ISBN-10: 0822946165
  • ISBN-13: 9780822946168
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  • Formaat: Hardback, 360 pages, kõrgus x laius: 229x152 mm, 22 b&w
  • Sari: Intersections: Histories of Environment
  • Ilmumisaeg: 30-Sep-2020
  • Kirjastus: University of Pittsburgh Press
  • ISBN-10: 0822946165
  • ISBN-13: 9780822946168
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As global temperatures rise under the forcing hand of humanity&;s greenhouse gas emissions, new questions are being asked of how societies make sense of their weather, of the cultural values, which are afforded to climate, and of how environmental futures are imagined, feared, predicted, and remade. Weather, Climate, and Geographical Imagination contributes to this conversation by bringing together a range of voices from history of science, historical geography, and environmental history, each speaking to a set of questions about the role of space and place in the production, circulation, reception, and application of knowledges about weather and climate. The volume develops the concept of &;geographical imagination&; to address the intersecting forces of scientific knowledge, cultural politics, bodily experience, and spatial imaginaries, which shape the history of knowledges about climate.

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If we are to truly understand contemporary climate change and its various social constructions and machinations, we must situate it within a reasonable understanding of the historical context of the measurement, study, portrayals, and uses of climate, both social and scientific. Using the concept of the 'geographical imagination' and how that imagination helped produce what was or is known as climate knowledge, provides a useful and perhaps vital frame for understanding that context. These fourteen contributors provide concrete examples of climate knowledge creations and imagination, many in support of the project of British Imperialism. An important volume that forces one to reconsider the ways we've always thought about climate." - Randy Peppler, The University of Oklahoma

Acknowledgments vii
Introduction: Weather, Climate, and the Geographical Imagination 3(22)
Martin Mahony
Samuel Randalls
PART I SPACES OF OBSERVATION
1 Atmospheric Empire Historical Geographies of Meteorology at the Colonial Observatories
25(18)
Simon Naylor
Matthew Goodman
2 Imperial Oscillations Gilbert Walker and the Construction of the Southern Oscillation
43(24)
George Adamson
3 The Weather Ship Networks, Disasters, and Imaginaries after 1945
67(26)
Katharine Anderson
4 Looking for the Leeuwin An Environmental History of the Leeuwin Current
93(22)
Ruth A. Morgan
PART II HORIZONS OF EXPECTATION
5 Imagined Geographies of Climate and Race in Anglophone Life Assurance, C. 1840--1930
115(17)
James Kneale
Samuel Randalls
6 The British Women's Emigration Association and Climate(s) of South Africa
132(20)
Georgina Endfield
7 Race and Rainmaking in Twentieth-Century Southern Africa
152(16)
Meredith McKittrick
8 Weather, Climate, and the Colonial Imagination Meteorology and the End of Empire
168(23)
Martin Mahony
PART III ATMOSPHERIC ENTANGLEMENTS
9 Darwinian Hippocratics, Eugenic Enticements, and the Biometeorological Body
191(24)
David N. Livingstone
10 Civilization, Climate, and Ozone Ellsworth Huntington's "Big" Views on Biophysics, Biocosmics, and Biocracy
215(17)
James Rodger Fleming
11 The Shaded Modernism of the Global Interior Climate and Risk in the Architecture of MMM Roberto, Rio de Janeiro, 1936--1955
232(42)
Daniel A. Barber
Afterword: Historiographies and Geographies of Climate 274(7)
Mike Hulme
Notes 281(46)
Selected Bibliography 327(28)
Contributors 355(4)
Index 359
Martin Mahony is a lecturer in human geography at the University of East Anglia, United Kingdom. He works on the history of atmospheric science and technology and on the politics of climate change. Samuel Randalls is an associate professor in geography at University College London. His research explores both contemporary and historical relationships between business, science, and the environment, with a particular focus on weather and climate.