Weather, Climate, and the Geographical Imagination: Placing Atmospheric Knowledges (INTERSECTIONS: Histories of Environment)

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. Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Weather, Climate, and the Geographical Imagination | Martin Mahony and Samuel Randalls Part I. Spaces of Observation 1. Atmospheric Empire: Historical Geographies of Meteorology at the Colonial Observatories | Simon Naylor and Matthew Goodman 2. Imperial Oscillations: Gilbert Walker and the Construction of the Southern Oscillation | George Adamson 3. The Weather Ship: Networks, Disasters, and Imaginaries after 1945 | Katharine Anderson 4. Looking for the Leeuwin: An Environmental History of the Leeuwin Current | Ruth A. Morgan Part II. Horizons of Expectation 5. Imagined Geographies of Climate and Race in Anglophone Life Assurance c. 1840–1930 | James Kneale and Samuel Randalls 6. The British Women's Emigration Association and Climate(s) of South Africa | Georgina Endfield 7. Race and Rainmaking in the Twentieth-Century Southern Africa | Meredith McKittrick 8. Weather, Climate, and the Colonial Imagination: Meteorology and the End of Empire | Martin Mahony Part III. Atmospheric Engtanglements 9. Darwinian Hippocratics, Eugenic Enticements, and the Biometeorological Body | David N. Livingstone 10. Civilization, Climate, and Ozone: Ellsworth Huntington’s “Big” Views on Biophysics, Biocosmics, and Biocracy | James Rodger Fleming 11. The Shaded Modernism of the Global Interior: Climate and Risk in the Architecture of MMM Roberto, Rio de Janeiro, 1936–1955 | Daniel A. Barber Afterword: Historiographies and Geographies of Climate | Mike Hulme Notes Selected Bibliography Contributors Index "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."--Publisher description

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 History of Expertise, Practice, and Politics Related to Weather and Climate