TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hulme,Mike
TI  - Weathered: cultures of climate 
SN  - 9781473957749 (ebook) :
AV  - QC981.45 .H85 2017
PY  - 2017///
CY  - London
PB  - SAGE Publications Ltd
KW  - Climatology
KW  - Human beings
KW  - Effect of climate on
KW  - Human ecology
KW  - Weather
KW  - Social aspects
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - Climate is an enduring idea of the human mind and also a powerful one. Today, the idea of climate is most commonly associated with the discourse of climate-change and its scientific, political, economic, social, religious and ethical dimensions. However, to understand adequately the cultural politics of climate-change it is important to establish the different origins of the idea of climate itself and the range of historical, political and cultural work that the idea of climate accomplishes. In Weathered: Cultures of Climate, distinguished professor Mike Hulme opens up the many ways in which the idea of climate is given shape and meaning in different human cultures ? how climates are historicized, known, changed, lived with, blamed, feared, represented, predicted, governed and, at least putatively, re-designed
UR  - https://sk.sagepub.com/Books/cultured-weather
ER  -