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State, science and the skies : governmentalities of the British atmosphere
- Author / Creator
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Details
- Creator
- Mark Whitehead
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Chichester, U.K. ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009
- Series
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (xvii, 273 pages) : illustrations
- ISBNs
- 9781444307870, 1444307878, 9786612331619, 9781405191746, 1405191740, 1405191732, 1444399861, 1444307886, 9781405191739, 1282331612
- OCLC
- ocn587391584, ocn646788459
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Introduction : space, history and the governing of air pollution -- Historical geographies of science and government : exploring the apparatuses of atmospheric knowledge production -- Science, sight and the optics of air government -- Governing air conduct : exhibition, examination and the cultivation of the atmospheric self -- Instrumentation and the sites of atmospheric monitoring -- A national census of the air : spatial science, calculation and the geo-coding of the atmosphere -- Automating the air : atmospheric simulations and digital beings -- Environmental governmentalities and the ecological coding of the British atmosphere -- Conclusion : learning like a state in an age of atmospheric change