State, science and the skies : governmentalities of the British atmosphere

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    • Whitehead, Mark

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State, science and the skies : governmentalities of the British atmosphere

Mark Whitehead

（RGS-IBG book series）

Wiley-Blackwell, 2009

  • : hbk
  • : pbk.

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注記

Includes bibliographical references (p. [254]-265) and index

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巻冊次

: pbk. ISBN 9781405191739

内容説明

Utilizing environmental archival materials from the UK, State, Science and the Skies presents a groundbreaking historical account of the development of a state science of atmospheric pollution. Offers the most extensive historical and geographical account of atmospheric government and pollution in Britain, available today Presents archival material from 150 years of British history that represents an original contribution to our knowledge of the history of science and government Develops an innovative combination of Foucauldian history of government with a history of atmospheric science Raises crucial questions about the nature of state/science relations and the conditions under which environmental knowledge is produced

目次

List of Figures and Tables. Series Editors' Preface. Preface. Acknowledgements. List of Abbreviations. 1 Introduction: Space, History and the Governing of Air Pollution. 2 Historical Geographies of Science and Government: Exploring the Apparatus of Atmospheric Knowledge Acquisition. 3 Science, Sight and the Optics of Air Government 37 4 Governing Air Conduct: Exhibition, Examination and the Cultivation of the Atmospheric Self. 5 Instrumentation and the Sites of Atmospheric Monitoring. 6 A National Census of the Air: Spatial Science, Calculation and the Geo-Coding of the Atmosphere. 7 Automating the Air: Atmospheric Simulations and Digital Beings. 8 Environmental Governmentalities and the Ecological Coding of the British Atmosphere. 9 Conclusion: Learning Like a State in an Age of Atmospheric Change. Notes. References. Index.
巻冊次

: hbk ISBN 9781405191746

内容説明

Utilizing environmental archival materials from the UK, State, Science and the Skies presents a groundbreaking historical account of the development of a state science of atmospheric pollution. Offers the most extensive historical and geographical account of atmospheric government and pollution in Britain, available today Presents archival material from 150 years of British history that represents an original contribution to our knowledge of the history of science and government Develops an innovative combination of Foucauldian history of government with a history of atmospheric science Raises crucial questions about the nature of state/science relations and the conditions under which environmental knowledge is produced

目次

List of Figures and Tables. Series Editors' Preface. Preface. Acknowledgements. List of Abbreviations. 1 Introduction: Space, History and the Governing of Air Pollution. 2 Historical Geographies of Science and Government: Exploring the Apparatus of Atmospheric Knowledge Acquisition. 3 Science, Sight and the Optics of Air Government. 4 Governing Air Conduct: Exhibition, Examination and the Cultivation of the Atmospheric Self. 5 Instrumentation and the Sites of Atmospheric Monitoring. 6 A National Census of the Air: Spatial Science, Calculation and the Geo-Coding of the Atmosphere. 7 Automating the Air: Atmospheric Simulations and Digital Beings. 8 Environmental Governmentalities and the Ecological Coding of the British Atmosphere. 9 Conclusion: Learning Like a State in an Age of Atmospheric Change. Notes. References. Index.

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