Grossman Immeasurable Weather

Meteorological Data and Settler Colonialism from 1820 to Hurricane Sandy
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-4780-2703-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 256 Seiten

Reihe: Elements

Sara J. Grossman explores how weather data collection has been central to the larger project of settler colonialism in the United States between 1820 and the present.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Grossman, Sara J.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Historische & Regionale Volkskunde
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Meteorologie, Klimatologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction: About American Weather 1
1. Dreaming Data: Locating Early Nineteenth-Century Weather Data 25
2. Gendering Data: The Women of the Smithsonian Meteorological Project 57
3. Data in the Sky: Scientific Kites, Settler Masculinity, and Quantifying the Air 87
4. Data’s Edge: Cleaning Data and Dust Bowl Crises 111
5. Ugly Data in the Age of Satellites and Extreme Weather 137
Epilogue: Data’s Inheritance 171
Notes 179
Bibliography 209
Index 229

Über Autor(innen)

Sara J. Grossman is Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies on the Johanna Alderfer Harris and William H. Harris Professorship in Environmental Studies at Bryn Mawr College.