Format:
1 Online-Ressource (332 p.)
ISBN:
9780520384101
Series Statement:
Critical Environments: Nature, Science, and Politics 10
Content:
In China, the weather has changed. Decades of reform have been shadowed by a changing meteorological normal: seasonal dust storms and spectacular episodes of air pollution have reworked physical and political relations between land and air in China and downwind. Continent in Dust offers an anthropology of strange weather, focusing on intersections among statecraft, landscape, atmosphere, and society. Traveling from state engineering programs that attempt to choreograph the movement of mobile dunes in the interior, to newly reconfigured bodies and airspaces in Beijing, and beyond, this book explores contemporary China as a weather system in the making: what would it mean to understand “the rise of China” literally, as the country itself rises into the air?
Note:
Frontmatter
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Contents
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Illustrations
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Acknowledgments
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Apparatus A. Nightwind
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Introduction: Earthly Interphases
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Part I. Wind-Sand
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Apparatus B. The Wind Tunnel
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1. Machine Sky
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Apparatus C. A Sheet of Loose Sand
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2. Groundwork
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Apparatus D. Five Thousand Years
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3. Holding Patterns
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Part II. Fine Particulate Matter
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4. Particulate Exposures
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Apparatus E. Wildfires
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5. City of Chambers
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Part III. Continent in Dust
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Apparatus F. A Sinocene
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6. Downwinds
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Apparatus G. Monsters
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Notes
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References
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Index
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In English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780520384095
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als print ISBN 9780520384095
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1525/9780520384101
