Thinking Like a Climate

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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.

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Drawing on ethnographic research with policy makers, politicians, activists, scholars, and the public in Manchester, England, Hannah Knox confronts the challenges climate change poses to knowledge production and modern politics.

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Abbreviations ix
Preface and Acknowledgments xi
Introduction. Matter, Politics, and Climate Change 1
Part I. Contact Zones
Climate Change in Manchester: An Origin Story 35

1. 41% and the Problem of Proportion 40
   How the Climate Takes Shape 63
2. The Carbon Life of Buildings 67
   Footprints and Traces, or Learning to Think Like a Climate 89
3. Footprints, Objects, and the Endlessness of Relations 95
   When Global Climate Meets Local Nature(s) 122
4. An Irrelevant Apocalypse: Futures, Models, and Scenarios 127
   Cities, Mayors, and Climate Change 156
5. Stuck in Strategies 159
   Part II. Rematerializing Politics
6. Test Houses and Vernacular Engineers 179
7. Activist Devices and the Art of Politics 205
8. Symptoms, Diagnoses, and the Politics of the Hack 234
   Conclusion. "Going Native" in the Anthropocene 259
   Notes 273
   References 285
   Index 305