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Associate Professor of Anthropology and UCL Anthropocene member Hannah Knox publishes her new book, Thinking Like a Climate: Governing a City in Times of Environmental Change
Associate Professor of Anthropology Hannah Knox has published her new book Thinking Like a Climate: Governing a City in Times of Environmental Change.
In Thinking Like a Climate Hannah Knox confronts the challenges that climate change poses to knowledge production and modern politics. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork among policy makers, politicians, activists, scholars, and the public in Manchester, England—birthplace of the Industrial Revolution—Knox explores the city's strategies for understanding and responding to deteriorating environmental conditions.
Climate science, Knox argues, frames climate change as a very particular kind of social problem that confronts the limits of administrative and bureaucratic techniques of knowing people, places, and things. Exceeding these limits requires forging new modes of relating to climate in ways that reimagine the social in climatological terms. Knox contends that the day-to-day work of crafting and implementing climate policy and translating climate knowledge into the work of governance demonstrates that local responses to climate change can be scaled up to effect change on a global scale.
Thinking Like a Climate is Published by Duke University Press (dukeupress.edu/thinking-like-a-climate) and is also available to download for free through Open Access (read.dukeupress.edu/books/book/2796/Thinking-Like-a-ClimateGoverning-a-City-in-Times)
You can watch Hannah Knox discuss the book with Professor Andrew Barry and Dr Pushpa Arabindoo in a launch event with UCL Anthropocene here: