How are we to think like a climate?" This may be the first question that arises when reading the title of Hannah Knox' timely ethnography on climate change governance in the city of Manchester. Is it a mere conceptualisation of climate as a "form of thought" (p.8)? An acknowledgement of "stabilized effects of interactions" (p.8) between interacting entities? Most of all, the prompt to think like a climate invites people to "inhabit global ecological relations and their projection into the future" (p.264). This mode of thinking understands climate in a multifaceted manner, paying special attention to its material dynamics. It brings into view how climate can be understood as a rainstorm disturbing a meeting, and how it is seen in data, spreadsheets, models and documents as well as in activist spaces. Thinking Like a Climate explores myriad ways in which planners, politicians, activists and anthropologists can, should and already do try to grasp climate change. The book successfully describes entanglements of city administration and politics, policy-making, activism, climate science and data representations. It starts with theoretical and methodological aspirations that are taken up in two empirical sections and make up the largest part of Knox' ethnography. Though the kaleidoscopic presentation of empirical findings and theoretical approaches is
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