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Focussing on the origins and cultures of the idea of climate, this discipline-spanning, authoritative text provides readers with an exciting addition to the literature What is climate? -- Knowledges of Climate. Historicising climate -- Knowing climate -- Changing climates -- The Powers of Climate. Living with climate -- Blaming climate -- Fearing climate -- Representing climate -- The Futures of Climate. Predicting climate -- Redesigning climate -- Governing climate -- Reading future climates. What is climate? -- Historicising climate -- Knowing climate -- Changing climates -- Living with climate -- Blaming climate -- Fearing climate -- Representing climate -- Predicting climate -- Redesigning climate -- Governing climate -- Reading future climates. 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
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