Mark Whitehead 
State, Science and the Skies [EPUB ebook] 
Governmentalities of the British Atmosphere

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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

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Table of Content

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.

About the author

Mark Whitehead is a Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at the Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences, Aberystwyth University; and Senior Research Fellow at the City Institute, York University, Toronto. His published works include Spaces of Sustainability: Geographical Perspectives on the Sustainable Society (2006); and The Nature of the State: Excavating the Political Ecologies of the Modern State (co-author, 2007).

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Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 296 ● ISBN 9781444399868 ● File size 2.8 MB ● Publisher John Wiley & Sons ● Published 2011 ● Edition 1 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 2390440 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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