Horizon Work (eBook)

At the Edges of Knowledge in an Age of Runaway Climate Change

Adriana Petryna (Autor)

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2022
224 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-23259-1 (ISBN)

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A new way of thinking about the climate crisis as an exercise in delimiting knowable, and habitable, worldsAs carbon dioxide emissions continue to rise, Earth's fragile ecosystems are growing increasingly unstable and unpredictable. Horizon Work explores how climate change is disrupting our fundamental ability to project how the environment will act over time, and how these rapidly faltering predictions are colliding with the dangerous new realities of emergency response.Anthropologist Adriana Petryna examines the climate crisis through the lens of "e;horizoning,"e; a mode of reckoning that considers unnatural disasters against a horizon of expectation in which people and societies can act. She talks to wildfire scientists who, amid chaotic fire seasons and shifting fire behaviors, are revising predictive models calibrated to conditions that no longer exist. Petryna tells the stories of wildland firefighters who could once rely on memory of previous fires to gauge the behaviors of the next. Trust in patterns has become an occupational hazard. Sometimes, the very concept of projection becomes untenable. Yet if all we see is doom, we will overlook something crucial about the scientific and ethical labor needed to hold back climate chaos. Here is where the work of horizoning begins.From experiments probing our planetary points of no return to disaster ecologies where the stark realities of climate change are being confronted, Horizon Work reveals how this new way of thinking has the power to reverse harmful legacies while turning voids where projection falters into spaces of collective action and recoverable futures.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 12.4.2022
• Zusatzinfo: 25 b/w illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Albedo • Alternative stable state • Aluminium foil • Aquatic ecosystem • Archival Research • Authorities (V franchise) • Bifurcation Theory • bomb shelter • Bulldozer • burial • Campsite • Carbon dioxide • cell type • cellular respiration • Cerro Grande Fire • Certainty • Climate • climate change • coal • Collective responsibility • community leader • convection • coral reef • Creatinine • Cretaceous • dead reckoning • Death rattle • Defensible space (fire control) • depiction • Developmental Biology • disaster • Drainage • Drought • dust storm • ecosystem • Entrapment • environmental movement • Environmental Policy • epigenetics • Equipment operator • fallout shelter • Firefighter • Firefighting • fire regime • Fire shelter • fishery • Food • Fossil fuel • fuel • Future Generation • Gaston Bachelard • Greenhouse Gas • heat transfer • imperative mood • Instrumental temperature record • interaction • Interagency hotshot crew • interconnectivity • James Hansen • lake nyos • Lightning Strike • Logging • National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration • Natural selection • necrosis • Other Losses • OurWorldInData • Phosphate • Predatory fish • Probability • Profiteering (business) • Quantity • Regime shift • result • rodent • Scientist • Sea Level Rise • Seedbed • Snow • Soda lime • Soil • strategic bombing • structural engineer • Suicide mission • Sulfur Dioxide • survivability • Telecommunication • Textile • Thought experiment • Uncertainty • Vegetation • water cycle • Weather • Western United States • wetland • W. G. Sebald • Wilderness Area • Wildfire • World War II • year
• ISBN-10: 0-691-23259-8 / 0691232598
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-23259-1 / 9780691232591