Continent in Dust

Experiments in a Chinese Weather System
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-0-520-38409-5
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 10, 332 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 228 mm x 153 mm, Gewicht: 464 g

Reihe: Critical Environments: Nature, Science, and Politics

In China, the weather has changed. Decades of reform have been shadowed by a changing meteorological normal: seasonal dust storms and spectacular episodes of air pollution have reworked physical and political relations between land and air in China and downwind. Continent in Dust offers an anthropology of strange weather, focusing on intersections among statecraft, landscape, atmosphere, and society. Traveling from state engineering programs that attempt to choreograph the movement of mobile dunes in the interior, to newly reconfigured bodies and airspaces in Beijing, and beyond, this book explores contemporary China as a weather system in the making: what would it mean to understand “the rise of China” literally, as the country itself rises into the air?

Autoren/Hrsg.

Zee, Jerry C.

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geologie Meteorologie, Klimatologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Umwelt und Kultur, Kulturökologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Apparatus A. Nightwind Introduction: Earthly Interphases

Part I Wind-Sand  Apparatus B. The Wind Tunnel  1. Machine Sky  Apparatus C. A Sheet of Loose Sand  2. Groundwork  Apparatus D. Five Thousand Years  3. Holding Patterns

Part II Fine Particulate Matter  4. Particulate Exposures  Apparatus E. Wildfires  5. City of Chambers

Part III Continent in Dust  Apparatus F. A Sinocene  6.  Downwinds  Apparatus G. Monsters  Notes  References  Index

Über Autor(innen)

Jerry C. Zee is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology and the High Meadows Environmental Institute at Princeton University.