Drawing on ethnographic research with policy makers, politicians, activists, scholars, and the public in Manchester, England, Hannah Knox confronts the challenges climate change poses to knowledge production and modern politics.

Abbreviations  ix
Preface and Acknowledgments  xi
Introduction. Matter, Politics, and Climate Change  1
Part I. Contact Zones
Climate Change in Manchester: An Origin Story  35
1. 41% and the Problem of Proportion  40
How the Climate Takes Shape  63
2. The Carbon Life of Buildings  67
Footprints and Traces, or Learning to Think Like a Climate  89
3. Footprints, Objects, and the Endlessness of Relations  95
When Global Climate Meets Local Nature(s)  122
4. An Irrelevant Apocalypse: Futures, Models, and Scenarios  127
Cities, Mayors, and Climate Change  156
5. Stuck in Strategies  159
Part II. Rematerializing Politics
6. Test Houses and Vernacular Engineers  179
7. Activist Devices and the Art of Politics  205
8. Symptoms, Diagnoses, and the Politics of the Hack  234
Conclusion. "Going Native" in the Anthropocene  259
Notes  273
References  285
Index  305

Hannah Knox is Associate Professor of Anthropology at University College London, coauthor of Roads: An Anthropology of Infrastructure and Expertise, and coeditor of Ethnography for a Data-Saturated World and Objects and Materials: A Routledge Companion.