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Immeasurable weather : meteorological data and settler colonialism from 1820 to Hurricane Sandy
Author
Title
Immeasurable weather : meteorological data and settler colonialism from 1820 to Hurricane Sandy / Sara J. Grossman.
ISBN
1478027037
9781478027034
9781478025023
1478025026
9781478020059
1478020059
Publication
Durham : Duke University Press, 2023.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xiv, 246 pages) : illustrations, maps
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Notes
Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified]: HathiTrust Digital Library. 2024.
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Summary
"Immeasurable Weather demonstrates how the quantitative data produced by American weather scientists as well as citizen scientists has reinforced the project of settler colonialism and altered the living environment in the process. Sara J. Grossman argues that white settlement of the land and domination of its people proceeded by breaking up the complex networks of relationality that bind together the human and non-human worlds. Erasing the relational models of ecology that form the basis of Indigenous environmental knowledge, the emergent discipline of data science-born specifically from the desire to quantify weather-instead reproduced the natural world and natural phenomena as a set of isolated objects to be measured, owned, and exploited. Immeasurable Weather explores the relationship between climate data and state power in key moments in the history of American weather science: the public data-gathering practices of settler farmers and teachers in the 19th century that would later form the basis of the United States Weather Bureau; the centrality of women to data collection and computation, particularly through the Smithsonian Meteorological Project; the automation of weather data in the Dust Bowl of the early 20th century; and, finally, the role of meteorological satellites in data science's formal integration into American "military-meteorological nation-state structures.""-- Provided by publisher.
Variant and related titles
e-Duke books scholarly collection 2023. OCLC KB.
Other formats
Print version: Grossman, Sara J. Immeasurable weather. Durham : Duke University Press, 2023
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 30, 2024
Series
Elements
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Dreaming data : locating early nineteenth-century weather data
Gendering data : the women of the Smithsonian Meteorological Project
Data in the sky : scientific kites, settler masculinity, and quantifying the air
Data's edge : Cleaning Data and Dust Bowl crisis
Ugly data in the age of satellites and extreme weather.
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History
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