Jerome Whitington
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3584550 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Jerome Whitington |
| NOMBRES | Jerome |
| APELLIDO | Whitington |
| FIRMA | WHITINGTON J |
| AFILIACIONES | New York University |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 18 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 86 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 18 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2008 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Turning Brownfields into Brightfields
The reuse of abandoned late-industrial sites for renewable energy projects has emerged as a promising strategy for decarbonization and environmental justice in a time of climate emergency. Although challenged by the roll-back of renewable energy policies in the United States, governments and companies frame the use of “unproductive” lands for solar and wind power development as viable solutions to problems of land use, economic decline, climate c…
Mining the Sun
A striking effort is under way to use energy investment, a key feature of US federal climate policy, to build solar farms on former mining lands and in legacy mining communities in central Appalachia. Focusing on community solar initiatives, we consider the geosociality of energy transitions from the perspective of communities where many people have considerable knowledge of energy systems and how they work. We note that the politics of place-mak…
Geology, Power, and the Planetary
What conditions of possibility have emerged for learning to live on a new earth? This special section builds on scholarship in the environmental humanities, critical Black studies, and geophilosophy to explore how emergent ways of becoming human are forged in relation to powerful earth dynamics, even while earth's powers are constitutive of contemporary forms of domination. Geologizing Sylvia Wynter's understanding of being human as a praxis, it …
Consolations of the Earth
This article looks toward nineteenth-century earth sciences with attention to their humanistic themes. In the early decades of the century, multiple lines of evidence concretized a humanistic experience of man as a finite being with a contingent and accidental planetary existence. Geological humanism refers to the way that themes of earthly existence routinely influenced the status and meaning of being human, culturally and within the sciences, w…
Immanent Futures and the Value of Knowledge
Immanent Futures and the Value of Knowledge Jerome Whitington Vincent Ialenti. Deep Time Reckoning: How Future Thinking Can Help Earth Now. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2020. 208 pp. Mandated by the Finnish regulatory state, Posiva is a nuclear waste management firm owned by two energy companies that supply nuclear power for some 30 percent of Finland's energy needs. It will soon begin operating a high-level waste disposal facility deep in the grani…
Earth's Data
Carbon markets are the primary regulatory device for confronting climate change. This article analyzes the data practices through which carbon markets connect local reductions in carbon emissions with the planetary atmosphere as such. Carbon markets and related accounting practices are a special form of what Kim Fortun calls "informating environmentalism," that is, the rendering of environmental issues into problems that can be managed by informa…
The ethnography of the global after globalization
This collection of essays seeks to reinvigorate ethnographic investigation of the contemporary global. At a moment afflicted by transnational pandemic, political chauvinism, and disciplinary retrenchment, they offer a model for reengagement with the global. Critical work in anthropology over a decade ago was published when optimism over a "borderless world" still held sway. In the intervening years, globalization has bequeathed a world of viral c…
Sustainability enclaves in Southeast Asia
Resource regimes in postsocialist Laos have been dominated by foreign actors in ways that frequently dovetail with the prerogatives of multilateral investment and the work of nongovernmental development organizations. A common theme among these diverse actors is that the Lao government regularly delegates certain kinds of governing activity to these foreign actors, resulting in specific territories over which foreign organizations can frequently …
Anthropogenic Rivers
In the 2000s, Laos was treated as a model country for the efficacy of privatized, "sustainable" hydropower projects as viable options for World Bank-led development. By viewing hydropower as a process that creates ecologically uncertain environments, Jerome Whitington reveals how new forms of managerial care have emerged in the context of a privatized dam project successfully targeted by transnational activists. Based on ethnographic work inside …
Bangkok's New City of Walls
Modernist Infrastructure and the Vital Systems Security of Water
Singapore climate change adaptation planning for water infrastructure is assessed against the concept of "vital security systems." Cast against the historicity of water planning and postcolonial urbanism, water supply, coastal protection, and flood control are understood in terms of vigilance, emergency, prediction, and control. It is argued that climate adaptation planning relies on a naturalistic understanding of predictable, linear transformat…
Carbon as a Metric of the Human
In this article, carbon management is framed as a domain in which active reflection on the uncertain significance of climate change takes material form in the construction of new infrastructures of carbon accounting and carbon markets. "Carbon" refers not to a chemical, per se, but to an imaginative space of global atmospheric relations rendered material. The historical ontology of carbon and atmosphere together form a distinctive global medium, …
What Does Climate Change Demand of Anthropology
Fingerprint, bellwether, model event
The climate change fingerprint, bellwether and model event are three epistemic figures through which it may be possible to know the future through attention to specific material relations. They offer an emergent grammar to help make sense of the rapid transformations in planetary ecology over the past decade due to climate change. What was before experienced as modeled scenarios about future change is now increasingly confirmed. But the experienc…
The Institutional Condition of Contested Hydropower
This article describes an attempt to collaborate by a major hydropower firm in Laos with an activist NGO that had forced the company to deal with the environmental problems it had caused. The collaboration demonstrates activists’ destructuring effects on hydropower development institutions over the past three decades through a case study that can be examined in detail. Against the threat of greenwashing or other forms of sustainability communicat…
Alien Ocean
Introduction – Science and its politics
Intervention, Management, Technological Error
Fingerprint, bellwether, model event
The climate change fingerprint, bellwether and model event are three epistemic figures through which it may be possible to know the future through attention to specific material relations. They offer an emergent grammar to help make sense of the rapid transformations in planetary ecology over the past decade due to climate change. What was before experienced as modeled scenarios about future change is now increasingly confirmed. But the experienc…
Carbon as a Metric of the Human
In this article, carbon management is framed as a domain in which active reflection on the uncertain significance of climate change takes material form in the construction of new infrastructures of carbon accounting and carbon markets. "Carbon" refers not to a chemical, per se, but to an imaginative space of global atmospheric relations rendered material. The historical ontology of carbon and atmosphere together form a distinctive global medium, …
Modernist Infrastructure and the Vital Systems Security of Water
Singapore climate change adaptation planning for water infrastructure is assessed against the concept of "vital security systems." Cast against the historicity of water planning and postcolonial urbanism, water supply, coastal protection, and flood control are understood in terms of vigilance, emergency, prediction, and control. It is argued that climate adaptation planning relies on a naturalistic understanding of predictable, linear transformat…
Geology, Power, and the Planetary
What conditions of possibility have emerged for learning to live on a new earth? This special section builds on scholarship in the environmental humanities, critical Black studies, and geophilosophy to explore how emergent ways of becoming human are forged in relation to powerful earth dynamics, even while earth's powers are constitutive of contemporary forms of domination. Geologizing Sylvia Wynter's understanding of being human as a praxis, it …
Earth's Data
Carbon markets are the primary regulatory device for confronting climate change. This article analyzes the data practices through which carbon markets connect local reductions in carbon emissions with the planetary atmosphere as such. Carbon markets and related accounting practices are a special form of what Kim Fortun calls "informating environmentalism," that is, the rendering of environmental issues into problems that can be managed by informa…
What Does Climate Change Demand of Anthropology
The Institutional Condition of Contested Hydropower
This article describes an attempt to collaborate by a major hydropower firm in Laos with an activist NGO that had forced the company to deal with the environmental problems it had caused. The collaboration demonstrates activists’ destructuring effects on hydropower development institutions over the past three decades through a case study that can be examined in detail. Against the threat of greenwashing or other forms of sustainability communicat…
The ethnography of the global after globalization
This collection of essays seeks to reinvigorate ethnographic investigation of the contemporary global. At a moment afflicted by transnational pandemic, political chauvinism, and disciplinary retrenchment, they offer a model for reengagement with the global. Critical work in anthropology over a decade ago was published when optimism over a "borderless world" still held sway. In the intervening years, globalization has bequeathed a world of viral c…
Intervention, Management, Technological Error
Introduction – Science and its politics
Intervention, Management, Technological Error
Alien Ocean
The Institutional Condition of Contested Hydropower
This article describes an attempt to collaborate by a major hydropower firm in Laos with an activist NGO that had forced the company to deal with the environmental problems it had caused. The collaboration demonstrates activists’ destructuring effects on hydropower development institutions over the past three decades through a case study that can be examined in detail. Against the threat of greenwashing or other forms of sustainability communicat…
Fingerprint, bellwether, model event
The climate change fingerprint, bellwether and model event are three epistemic figures through which it may be possible to know the future through attention to specific material relations. They offer an emergent grammar to help make sense of the rapid transformations in planetary ecology over the past decade due to climate change. What was before experienced as modeled scenarios about future change is now increasingly confirmed. But the experienc…
Modernist Infrastructure and the Vital Systems Security of Water
Singapore climate change adaptation planning for water infrastructure is assessed against the concept of "vital security systems." Cast against the historicity of water planning and postcolonial urbanism, water supply, coastal protection, and flood control are understood in terms of vigilance, emergency, prediction, and control. It is argued that climate adaptation planning relies on a naturalistic understanding of predictable, linear transformat…
Carbon as a Metric of the Human
In this article, carbon management is framed as a domain in which active reflection on the uncertain significance of climate change takes material form in the construction of new infrastructures of carbon accounting and carbon markets. "Carbon" refers not to a chemical, per se, but to an imaginative space of global atmospheric relations rendered material. The historical ontology of carbon and atmosphere together form a distinctive global medium, …
What Does Climate Change Demand of Anthropology
Anthropogenic Rivers
In the 2000s, Laos was treated as a model country for the efficacy of privatized, "sustainable" hydropower projects as viable options for World Bank-led development. By viewing hydropower as a process that creates ecologically uncertain environments, Jerome Whitington reveals how new forms of managerial care have emerged in the context of a privatized dam project successfully targeted by transnational activists. Based on ethnographic work inside …
Bangkok's New City of Walls
Immanent Futures and the Value of Knowledge
Immanent Futures and the Value of Knowledge Jerome Whitington Vincent Ialenti. Deep Time Reckoning: How Future Thinking Can Help Earth Now. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2020. 208 pp. Mandated by the Finnish regulatory state, Posiva is a nuclear waste management firm owned by two energy companies that supply nuclear power for some 30 percent of Finland's energy needs. It will soon begin operating a high-level waste disposal facility deep in the grani…
Earth's Data
Carbon markets are the primary regulatory device for confronting climate change. This article analyzes the data practices through which carbon markets connect local reductions in carbon emissions with the planetary atmosphere as such. Carbon markets and related accounting practices are a special form of what Kim Fortun calls "informating environmentalism," that is, the rendering of environmental issues into problems that can be managed by informa…
The ethnography of the global after globalization
This collection of essays seeks to reinvigorate ethnographic investigation of the contemporary global. At a moment afflicted by transnational pandemic, political chauvinism, and disciplinary retrenchment, they offer a model for reengagement with the global. Critical work in anthropology over a decade ago was published when optimism over a "borderless world" still held sway. In the intervening years, globalization has bequeathed a world of viral c…
Sustainability enclaves in Southeast Asia
Resource regimes in postsocialist Laos have been dominated by foreign actors in ways that frequently dovetail with the prerogatives of multilateral investment and the work of nongovernmental development organizations. A common theme among these diverse actors is that the Lao government regularly delegates certain kinds of governing activity to these foreign actors, resulting in specific territories over which foreign organizations can frequently …
Geology, Power, and the Planetary
What conditions of possibility have emerged for learning to live on a new earth? This special section builds on scholarship in the environmental humanities, critical Black studies, and geophilosophy to explore how emergent ways of becoming human are forged in relation to powerful earth dynamics, even while earth's powers are constitutive of contemporary forms of domination. Geologizing Sylvia Wynter's understanding of being human as a praxis, it …
Consolations of the Earth
This article looks toward nineteenth-century earth sciences with attention to their humanistic themes. In the early decades of the century, multiple lines of evidence concretized a humanistic experience of man as a finite being with a contingent and accidental planetary existence. Geological humanism refers to the way that themes of earthly existence routinely influenced the status and meaning of being human, culturally and within the sciences, w…
Mining the Sun
A striking effort is under way to use energy investment, a key feature of US federal climate policy, to build solar farms on former mining lands and in legacy mining communities in central Appalachia. Focusing on community solar initiatives, we consider the geosociality of energy transitions from the perspective of communities where many people have considerable knowledge of energy systems and how they work. We note that the politics of place-mak…
Turning Brownfields into Brightfields
The reuse of abandoned late-industrial sites for renewable energy projects has emerged as a promising strategy for decarbonization and environmental justice in a time of climate emergency. Although challenged by the roll-back of renewable energy policies in the United States, governments and companies frame the use of “unproductive” lands for solar and wind power development as viable solutions to problems of land use, economic decline, climate c…
Sociology (9 obras) · Political science (8 obras) · Law (7 obras) · Law (6 obras) · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies (6 obras) · Computer Science (5 obras) · Business (4 obras) · Engineering (4 obras) · Epistemology (4 obras) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (4 obras)