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Adriana Petryna Horizon Work (Paperback). 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. Further DetailsTitle: Horizon Work Condition: New Subtitle: At the Edges of Knowledge in an Age of Runaway Climate Change Author: Adriana Petryna Format: Paperback ISBN-10: 0691264813 EAN: 9780691264813 ISBN: 9780691264813 Publisher: Princeton University Press Genre: Society & Culture Topic: Social Sciences, Science Nature & Math Release Date: 08/20/2024 Description: 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 these rapidly faltering predictions 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 labor 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. Language: English Country/Region of Manufacture: US Item Height: 216mm Item Length: 140mm Type: Meteorology Release Year: 2024 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
