Weather, Climate, and the Geographical Imagination
Title | Weather, Climate, and the Geographical Imagination PDF eBook |
Author | Martin Mahony |
Publisher | University of Pittsburgh Press |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2020-03-24 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 9780822946168 |
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.
Weather, Climate, and the Geographical Imagination
Title | Weather, Climate, and the Geographical Imagination PDF eBook |
Author | Martin Mahony |
Publisher | University of Pittsburgh Press |
Pages | 370 |
Release | 2020-03-24 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 0822987554 |
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.
The Weather in the Imagination
Title | The Weather in the Imagination PDF eBook |
Author | Lucian Boia |
Publisher | Reaktion Books |
Pages | 204 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9781861892140 |
"The weather has always been a topic of conversation; it is probably the most common dialogue between human beings. We often fear the weather, yet out apparent dread of it is puzzling, since we generally adapt to it remarkably well. The Weather in the Imagination investigates the theories, scenarios and psychoses caused by climate. These fall into three main categories: anthropological and psychological; historical; and catastrophic. The weather has long served as a means of explaining human diversity: other people are different because they live under different skies. Climate has also been used to explain the dynamic of the historical process, the rise of certain civilizations and the stagnation and regression of others. Catastrophe is also invoked in theories of the weather: what could destroy a civilization - or arouse the fear of humanity's total extinction - more effectively than a climatic disaster? The prototype of this kind of upheaval is the pre-biblical Flood, one of the most gripping and influential myths the human imagination has ever produced. Lucian Boia does not take sides in the current debates about climate; he does not exaggerate or play down global warming and its consequences, or try to forecast the weather of the future. What he does tell is a story that runs parallel with the 'true' story of climate and its future: the story of a human imagination that has been stimulated, baffled, infuriated and, from time to time, terrified by the weather." -- Blackwells.
The SAGE Handbook of Historical Geography
Title | The SAGE Handbook of Historical Geography PDF eBook |
Author | Mona Domosh |
Publisher | SAGE |
Pages | 1619 |
Release | 2020-11-25 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 1529738660 |
Historical geography is an active, theoretically-informed and vibrant field of scholarly work within modern geography, with strong and constantly evolving connections with disciplines across the humanities and social sciences. Across two volumes, The SAGE Handbook of Historical Geography provides you with an an international and cross-disciplinary overview of the field, presenting chapters that examine the history, present condition and future potential of the discipline in relation to recent developments and research.
Weather: Spaces, Mobilities and Affects
Title | Weather: Spaces, Mobilities and Affects PDF eBook |
Author | Kaya Barry |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 284 |
Release | 2020-12-17 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 1000297322 |
This book delves into the everyday spaces, diverse mobilities and affective potency of weather. It presents cutting-edge research into the multiplicity of weather phenomena and analyses the lived experiences of humans in conjunction with contemporary issues, notably climate change. The book considers how everyday experiences of weather in the mundane lives of people are linked to broader changes in weather patterns and climate change. Heat, dust, ice, snow, precipitation, sunlight, clouds, tides and fog are states of weather that impact on the ways in which humans become intertwined with landscapes. Our experiences with weather are diverse and ever-changing, and engaging with weather entangles humans with mobilities, materials and landscapes. This book thus explores affective and sensory resonances, drawing upon a variety of theoretical, empirical and creative material to investigate how weather is perceived in different social and cultural contexts. Key themes focus on the mobilities generated by weather, the affective and sensual potency of weather, and the diverse cultural forms and practices that exemplify how weather is historically, geographically and artistically represented. Offering a social and cultural understanding of weather events, this book contributes to a growing literature on weather across various disciplines, including human geography and cultural geography, and will thus appeal to students and scholars of geography, sociology, humanities, cultural studies and the arts.
The Routledge Handbook of Science and Empire
Title | The Routledge Handbook of Science and Empire PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew Goss |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 339 |
Release | 2021-07-05 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 1000404854 |
The focus of this volume is the history of imperial science between 1600 and 1960, although some essays reach back prior to 1600 and the section about decolonization includes post-1960 material. Each contributed chapter, written by an expert in the field, provides an analytical review essay of the field, while also providing an overview of the topic. There is now a rich literature developed by historians of science as well as scholars of empire demonstrating the numerous ways science and empire grew together, especially between 1600 and 1960.
The Geographical Imagination in America, 1880-1950
Title | The Geographical Imagination in America, 1880-1950 PDF eBook |
Author | Susan Schulten |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 348 |
Release | 2001-04 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780226740553 |
Schulten examines four enduring institutions of learning that produced some of the most influential sources of geographic knowledge in modern history: maps and atlases, the National Geographic Society, the American university, and public schools."--BOOK JACKET.