Climate is an enduring idea of the human mind and also a powerful one. Today, the idea of climate is most commonly associated with the discourse of climate-change and its scientific, political, economic, social, religious and ethical dimensions. However, to understand adequately the cultural politics of climate-change it is important to establish the different origins of the idea of climate itself and the range of historical, political and cultural work that the idea of climate accomplishes. In Weathered: Cultures of Climate, distinguished professor Mike Hulme opens up the many ways in which the idea of climate is given shape and meaning in different human cultures – how climates are historicized, known, changed, lived with, blamed, feared, represented, predicted, governed and, at least putatively, re-designed.
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Focussing on the origins and cultures of the idea of climate, this discipline-spanning, authoritative text provides readers with an exciting addition to the literature
What is Climate?
Part 1: Knowledges of Climate
Historicising Climate
Knowing Climate
Changing Climates
Part 2: The Powers of Climate
Living with Climate
Blaming Climate
Fearing Climate
Representing Climate
Part 3: The Futures of Climate
Predicting Climate
Redesigning Climate
Governing Climate
Reading Future Climates
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Mike Hulme’s wise and well-crafted book encircles the idea of climate from a series of perspectives, showing its elusive nature from a welter of examples. As the argument develops, we see how climate is embedded in multiple cultures, histories, and knowledges about nature. We are shown how our views of climate depend on personal experiences, scientific models, inherited tropes, and political interest. Each chapter reflects a turn of the kaleidoscope, gradually making the reader see both the complexity and the singularity of each image. Hulme’s remarkable achievement is to humanise climate, without losing sight of the larger challenges; this is where the book cannot but affect the reader.
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ISBN
9781473924987
Publisert
2016-11-17
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Vendor
SAGE Publications Ltd
Vekt
510 gr
Høyde
242 mm
Bredde
170 mm
Aldersnivå
U, P, 05, 06
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Product language
Engelsk
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Antall sider
200
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