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Author Callison, Candis, 1971- author.

Title How climate change comes to matter : the communal life of facts / Candis Callison.

Publication Info. Durham : Duke University Press, 2014.

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 316 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Experimental futures: technological lives, scientific arts, anthropological voices
Experimental futures.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-302) and index.
Contents The Inuit gift -- Reporting on climate change -- Blessing the facts -- Negotiating risk, expertise, and near-advocacy -- What gets measured, gets managed -- Epilogue: rethinking public engagement & collaboration.
Summary A rich ethnographic account describing the processes by which climate change comes to matter collectively and individually, and how vernacular explanations of climate change reflect diverse ways of knowing and caring about the world.
Local Note JSTOR Books at JSTOR Open Access
Language English.
Subject Climatic changes -- Social aspects -- United States.
Climatic changes -- Social aspects.
United States.
Climatic changes -- Political aspects -- United States.
Climatic changes -- Political aspects.
Climatic changes -- Press coverage -- United States.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure.
Climatic changes.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
Press coverage.
SCIENCE -- Environmental Science.
SCIENCE / Environmental Science.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Callison, Candis, 1971- How climate change comes to matter. Durham : Duke University Press, 2014 9780822357711 9780822357872 (DLC) 2014007350 (OCoLC)871186975
ISBN 9780822376064 (electronic book)
0822376067 (electronic book)
9781478091981 (electronic book)
1478091983 (electronic book)
9780822357711 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
0822357712 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
9780822357872 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
0822357879 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
Standard No. 10.1515/9780822376064