After decades of debate about global warming, the fact of the climate crisis is finally widely accepted. People at all scales—from the household to the global market—are attempting to govern climate to deal with its causes and impacts. Although the stakes are different now, governing climate is centuries old. In this book, Zeke Baker develops a genealogy of climate science that traces the relationship between those who have created knowledge of the climate and those who have attempted to gain power and govern society, right up to the present, historic moment. Baker draws together over two centuries of science, politics, and environmental change to demonstrate the "co-production" of climate knowledge and power-seeking activity, with a focus on the United States. This book provides a fresh account of contemporary issues transecting science and climate politics, specifically the rise of "climate security, " and examines how climate science can either facilitate or reconcile the unequal distribution of power and resources.
Table of Content
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Governing Climate in the Past, Present, and Future
Part I. Climate Change and the Coproduction of Meteorological and Social Order
1. Governing Climate in Early America, 1770–1840
2. Meteorological Frontiers: Climate Knowledge, Territory, and State Formation, 1800–1850
Part II. Stabilizing Climate, Economizing Weather
3. Climate Does Not Change: Agricultural Capitalism, Climatology, and the Stabilization of Climate, 1850–1920
4. Economic Rationalization of Weather:Risk, Prediction, and “Normal” Weather, 1870–1930
Part III. Climate Crisis and the Politics of Climate Expertise
5. The Climate State and the Origins of a Climate Science Field, 1930–1980s
6. Governing Climate Futures: Environmental Security and Security Technologies
7. Future Struggles: Climate Security Experts and the Depoliticization of the Climate Future
Conclusion: Legible Alternatives? Remaking
Climate, Rethinking Climatic Stability
Notes
References
Index
About the author
Zeke Baker is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Sonoma State University and coeditor of Climate, Science and Society.
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