Immeasurable Weather: Meteorological Data and Settler Colonialism from 1820 to Hurricane Sandy

Immeasurable Weather

Meteorological Data and Settler Colonialism from 1820 to Hurricane Sandy
 
Series: Elements;
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
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Number of Volumes: Cloth over boards
 
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ISBN13:9781478020059
ISBN10:1478020059
Binding:Hardback
No. of pages:264 pages
Size:229x152 mm
Weight:508 g
Language:English
Illustrations: 21 illustrations
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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.

Long description:
In Immeasurable Weather Sara J. Grossman explores how environmental data collection has been central to the larger project of settler colonialism in the United States. She draws on an extensive archive of historical and meteorological data spanning two centuries to show how American scientific institutions used information about the weather to establish and reinforce the foundations of a white patriarchal settler society. Grossman outlines the relationship between climate data and state power in key moments in the history of American weather science, from the nineteenth-century public data-gathering practices of settler farmers and teachers and the automation of weather data during the Dust Bowl to the role of meteorological satellites in data science’s integration into the militarized state. Throughout, Grossman shows that weather science reproduced the natural world as something to be measured, owned, and exploited. This data gathering, she contends, gave coherence to a national weather project and to a notion of the nation itself, demonstrating that weather science’s impact cannot be reduced to a set of quantifiable phenomena.

“In her analysis of the relationship between weather data and human experience, Sara J. Grossman’s main point—all the data in the world won’t save us—is stupendously timely and significant. Scholars of environmental history, of environmental humanities, and of the history of science will learn a great deal from this important book.”
Table of Contents:
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