Immeasurable Weather
Meteorological Data and Settler Colonialism from 1820 to Hurricane Sandy
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2023
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4780-2502-3 (ISBN)
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4780-2502-3 (ISBN)
Sara J. Grossman explores how weather data collection has been central to the larger project of settler colonialism in the United States between 1820 and the present.
In Immeasurable Weather Sara J. Grossman explores how environmental data collection has been central to the larger project of settler colonialism in the United States. She draws on an extensive archive of historical and meteorological data spanning two centuries to show how American scientific institutions used information about the weather to establish and reinforce the foundations of a white patriarchal settler society. Grossman outlines the relationship between climate data and state power in key moments in the history of American weather science, from the nineteenth-century public data-gathering practices of settler farmers and teachers and the automation of weather data during the Dust Bowl to the role of meteorological satellites in data science’s integration into the militarized state. Throughout, Grossman shows that weather science reproduced the natural world as something to be measured, owned, and exploited. This data gathering, she contends, gave coherence to a national weather project and to a notion of the nation itself, demonstrating that weather science’s impact cannot be reduced to a set of quantifiable phenomena.
In Immeasurable Weather Sara J. Grossman explores how environmental data collection has been central to the larger project of settler colonialism in the United States. She draws on an extensive archive of historical and meteorological data spanning two centuries to show how American scientific institutions used information about the weather to establish and reinforce the foundations of a white patriarchal settler society. Grossman outlines the relationship between climate data and state power in key moments in the history of American weather science, from the nineteenth-century public data-gathering practices of settler farmers and teachers and the automation of weather data during the Dust Bowl to the role of meteorological satellites in data science’s integration into the militarized state. Throughout, Grossman shows that weather science reproduced the natural world as something to be measured, owned, and exploited. This data gathering, she contends, gave coherence to a national weather project and to a notion of the nation itself, demonstrating that weather science’s impact cannot be reduced to a set of quantifiable phenomena.
Sara J. Grossman is Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies on the Johanna Alderfer Harris and William H. Harris Professorship in Environmental Studies at Bryn Mawr College.
List of Illustrations ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction: About American Weather 1
1. Dreaming Data: Locating Early Nineteenth-Century Weather Data 25
2. Gendering Data: The Women of the Smithsonian Meteorological Project 57
3. Data in the Sky: Scientific Kites, Settler Masculinity, and Quantifying the Air 87
4. Data’s Edge: Cleaning Data and Dust Bowl Crises 111
5. Ugly Data in the Age of Satellites and Extreme Weather 137
Epilogue: Data’s Inheritance 171
Notes 179
Bibliography 209
Index 229
| Erscheinungsdatum | 07.07.2023 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Elements |
| Zusatzinfo | 21 illustrations |
| Verlagsort | North Carolina |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 363 g |
| Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Meteorologie / Klimatologie |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4780-2502-6 / 1478025026 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4780-2502-3 / 9781478025023 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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