The Social Life of Climate Change Models
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1. Anticipating Nature: The Productive Uncertainty Of Climate Models / Kirsten Hastrup -- 2. How Climate Models Gain And Exercise Authority / Mike Hume -- 3. Certain Figures: Modelling Nature Among Environmental Experts In Coastal Tamil Nadu / Frida Hastrup -- 4. Enacting Cyclones: The Mixed Response To Climate Change In The Cook Islands / Cecilie Rubow -- 5. Anticipation On Thin Ice: Diagrammatic Reasoning In The High Arctic / Kirsten Hastrup -- 6. Deciding The Future In The Land Of Snow: Tibet As An Arena For Conflicting Forms Of Knowledge And Policy / Hildegard Diemberger -- 7. Scaling Climate: The Politics Of Anticipation / Ásdís Jónsdóttir -- 8. Emancipating Nature: What The Flood Apprentice Learned From A Modelling Tutorial / Andres Kristian Munk -- Modelling Ice: A Field Diary Of Anticipation On The Greenland Ice Sheet / Martin Skrydstrup -- 10. Predictability In Question: On Climate Modelling In Physics / Peter D. Ditlevsen -- 11. Constructing Evidence And Trust: How Did Climate Scientists' Confidence In Their Models Ad Simulations Emerge? / Matthias Heymann -- 12. Afterword: Reopening The Book Of Nature(s) / Martin Skrydstrup. Edited By Kirsten Hastrup And Martin Skrydstrup. Outgrowth Of A Workshop Held Within The 5 Year Research Project, Waterworlds, At The University Of Copenhagen. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.
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THE THESIS
This volume investigates how climate change models function not merely as objective scientific tools, but as social and political entities that shape human perception and policy. Editors Kirsten Hastrup and Martin Skrydstrup, both distinguished anthropologists, curate a collection of essays that examine the intersection of predictive modeling and local knowledge systems. By drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and historical analysis, the contributors argue that the authority of climate models is constructed through specific social practices and institutional contexts rather than existing as an inherent truth.
THE SCOPE MAP
What You Will Find
- Ethnographic case studies from diverse regions including the High Arctic, Tibet, the Cook Islands, and coastal Tamil Nadu.
- Analysis of the social construction of scientific evidence and trust within climate modeling communities.
- Examination of how diagrammatic reasoning and predictive simulations influence environmental policy and local decision-making.
- Critical perspectives on the politics of anticipation and the translation of global climate data into local contexts.
THE AUTHORITY PERSPECTIVE
Experts in the field of science and technology studies recognize this work as a significant contribution to the anthropology of climate change. Readers frequently note the academic density of the prose, which provides a rigorous framework for understanding the complex relationship between scientific modeling and societal response.
Page Count:
240
Publication Date:
2012-01-01
Publisher:
Taylor & Francis Group
ISBN-10:
041562858X
ISBN-13:
9780203093870
Anthropology
Climate Change
Climatic changes
Forecasting
Sociology
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