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

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.

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).