Thinking like a climate

Knox, Hannah

doi:10.1080/1600910x.2015.1022565

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“…Climate is bigger than individuals and localities; acknowledging this is crucial. It further speaks to what Hannah Knox has described as "thinking like a climate": a receptive form of engagement observed between several climate scientists and their data in which divides between the observer and the observed collapse into relational urgency (Knox 2015). Reactions of alarm, shared anxieties, and pronouncements of doom show that viewers see themselves in the system encircled by climate data and are moved by its aesthetics into forms of public feeling.…”

Section: Scalar Affects and Data Visualizationmentioning

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“…This dynamic surfaces in visualizations of climate data, even when they are crafted and presented without any particular conscious political aim (O'Neill and Smith 2014). Images of climatic scales can be surprisingly charismatic, traveling across heterogeneous publics that seek to cultivate modes of sensing and understanding climate across scalar divides (Knox 2015;Pine and Liboiron 2015).…”

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Mediating Climate, Mediating Scale

Pasek

2019

Humanities

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Climate communication is seemingly stuck in a double bind. The problem of global warming requires inherently trans-scalar modes of engagement, encompassing times and spaces that exceed local frames of experience and meaning. Climate media must therefore negotiate representational extremes that risk overwhelming their audience with the immensity of the problem or rendering it falsely manageable at a local scale. The task of visualizing climate is thus often torn between scales germane to the problem and scales germane to individuals. In this paper I examine how this scalar divide has been negotiated visually, focusing in particular on Ed Hawkins’ 2016 viral climate spiral. To many, the graphic represents a promising union of political and scientific communication in the public sphere. However, formal analysis of the gif’s reception suggest that the spiral was also a site of anxiety and negative emotion for many viewers. I take these conflicting interpretations as cause to rethink current assumptions about best practices and desirable outcomes for scalar mediations of climate and their capacities to mobilize a wide range of reactions and interpretations—some more legibly political and some more complicatedly affective, yet all nevertheless integral to the work of building a holistic response to the climate crisis.

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Section: Scalar Affects and Data Visualizationmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Mediating Climate, Mediating Scale

Pasek

2019

Humanities

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“…It might allow some to go where the data takes them and explore the ambiguous and complex nature of climate phenomena without being constrained by fear of damaging a consensus that is expected for climate action (Edwards, 2019). Others may also bridge the relationship between fact and emotion (Readfearn, 2020;Wang, Leviston, Hurlstone, Lawrence, & Walker, 2018) or indeed, reconstruct scientific norms altogether by "thinking like a climate" (Knox, 2015). Likewise, publics may act as "experts" engaging with scientists on scientific matters where appropriate and also carve out forms of public reasoning on climate action that do not only start from scientific consensus.…”

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Learning the lessons of Climategate: A cosmopolitan moment in the public life of climate science

Raman

Pearce

2020

WIREs Climate Change

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A decade after Climategate, climate change may be established as a social fact, yet the after‐effects live on. This Advanced Review assesses the impact of Climategate on public talk about climate change in the last decade. Reviewing academic articles, blogs, reports, books, and media articles, we identify three norms that set the foundations for Climategate to be seen as a scandal: (a) using scientific consensus to justify climate policy; (b) that openness is fundamental to validating scientific knowledge; (c) that the public was conceived as passive recipients of scientific knowledge rather than participants in dialogue. We then review developments since Climategate, that have seen some groups attempting to shore up these norms, while others have seen an opportunity to change the boundaries of public engagement around climate science. We describe this as a cosmopolitan moment in the public life of science: an opportunity to forge a public culture comfortable with the epistemic diversity and ambiguity inherent to climate change, and yet a culture that can also reason together in the public good. Finally, we assess the implications of Climategate's mixed legacy on contemporary climate change debates, emphasizing that cosmopolitan knowledge provides a means to craft effective, open, and fruitful approaches to public engagement around climate change. This article is categorized under: Social Status of Climate Change Knowledge > Sociology/Anthropology of Climate Knowledge

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“…Salved by the balm that there is recourse to ever-rising emissions in greenly managed capitalist life, this hegemonic discourse prevents us from imagining anything else (Schlembach et al 2012;Swyngedouw 2010;Williams and Booth 2013;Wright et al 2013). While many acknowledge the utility of this critique, others suggest it too severely constricts what is 'properly political' (see Bosworth forthcoming;Bryant 2016;Featherstone 2013;Knox 2015;McCarthy 2013) and settles too firmly what are no longer clear categories of antagonism and vulnerability (Clark and Gunaratnam 2013;Clark and Yusoff 2017;Povinelli 2017). This paper draws on Swyngedouw's critique, but finds it only partially useful to an analysis of climate politics today.…”

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Climate Politics and Race in the Pacific Northwest

Slocum

2018

Social Sciences

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The collective politics of climate justice makes the important claim that lowering emissions is not enough; society must also undertake radical transformation to address both the climate and inequality crises. Owing to its roots in the environmental justice movement, addressing systemic racism is central to climate justice praxis in the United States, which is a necessary intervention in typically technocratic climate politics. What emerges from US climate justice is a moral appeal to ‘relationship’ as politics, the procedural demand that communities of color (the ‘frontline’) lead the movement, and a distributive claim on carbon pricing revenue. However, this praxis precludes a critique of racial capitalism, the process that relies on structural racism to enhance accumulation, alienating, exploiting, and immiserating black, brown, and white, while carrying out ecocide. The lack of an analysis of how class and race produce the crises climate justice confronts prevents the movement from demanding that global north fossil fuel abolition occur in tandem with the reassertion of the public over the private and de-growth. Drawing on research conducted primarily in Oregon and Washington, I argue that race works to both create and limit the transformative possibilities of climate politics.

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Thinking like a climate

Cited by 26 publications

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Mediating Climate, Mediating Scale

Mediating Climate, Mediating Scale

Learning the lessons of Climategate: A cosmopolitan moment in the public life of climate science

Climate Politics and Race in the Pacific Northwest

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