Horizon work [electronic resource] : at the edges of knowledge in an age of runaway climate change

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서명/저자사항	Horizon work [electronic resource]: at the edges of knowledge in an age of runaway climate change / Adriana Petryna.
개인저자	Petryna, Adriana, 1966- author.
발행사항	Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2022
형태사항	1 online resource
ISBN	0691232598 9780691232591
서지주기	Includes bibliographical references and index.
요약	"This book argues that a world characterized by runaway climate change needs radically new models of scientific and practical expertise to effectively address the emergency"--
요약	"A new way of thinking about the climate crisis as an exercise in delimiting knowable, and habitable, worlds. As carbon dioxide emissions continue to rise, Earth's fragile ecosystems are growing increasingly unstable and unpredictable. Horizon Work explores how climate change is disrupting our fundamental ability to project how the environment will act over time, and how rapidly faltering projections are colliding with the dangerous new realities of emergency response. Anthropologist Adriana Petryna examines the climate crisis through the lens of "horizoning," a mode of reckoning that considers unnatural disasters against a horizon of expectation in which people and societies can act. She talks to wildfire scientists who, amid chaotic fire seasons and shifting fire behaviors, are revising predictive models calibrated to conditions that no longer exist. Petryna tells the stories of wildland firefighters who could once rely on memory of previous fires to gauge the behaviors of the next. Trust in patterns has become an occupational hazard. Sometimes, the very concept of projection becomes untenable. Yet if all we see is doom, we will overlook something crucial about the scientific and ethical labors needed to hold back climate chaos. Here is where the work of horizoning begins.From experiments probing our planetary points of no return to disaster ecologies where the stark realities of climate change are being confronted, Horizon Work reveals how this new way of thinking has the power to reverse harmful legacies while turning voids where projection falters into spaces of collective action and recoverable futures"--
해제	Provided by publisher.
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일반주제명	Climate change mitigation. Climatic changes --Forecasting. Climatic changes --Social aspects. Climat --Changements --Atte?nuation. Climat --Changements --Pre?vision. Climat --Changements --Aspect social. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Technology Studies. Climate change mitigation. Climatic changes --Forecasting. Climatic changes --Social aspects.
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