Meteorology as Infrastructural Globalism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3924704 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Paul N Edwards (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 229-250 |
| Publication date | 2006-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Osiris (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0369-7827 • E-ISSN: 1933-8287 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/507143 |
| OpenAlex | W2040089957 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 52 |
| References cited | 10 |
This chapter explores the history of a global governance institution, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), from its nineteenth‐century origins through the beginnings of a planetary meteorological observing network, the WMO’s World Weather Watch (WWW), in the 1960s. This history illustrates a profoundly important transition from voluntarist internationalism, based on shared interests, to quasi‐obligatory globalism, based on a more permanent shared infrastructure. The WMO and the WWW thus represent infrastructural globalism, by which “the world” as a whole is produced and maintained (as both object of knowledge and unified arena of human action) through global infrastructures
Geography · Globalism · Globalization · Meteorology · Political science · World history · History · History and Developments in Astronomy · International Science and Diplomacy · Law · Twentieth Century Scientific Developments
Information Infrastructure and Descriptions of the 1857 Fort Tejon Earthquake
The Weather Privateers
On thick ice
Globalization with hardware’
Synchronizing climate intervention
From the Airfield to the High Street
Where Humans and the Planetary Conflate—An Introduction to Environing Media
Serendipitous Outcomes in Space History
Understanding and misunderstanding computer simulation
Connections between simulations and observation in climate computer modeling. Scientist’s practices and “bottom-up epistemology” lessons
Weather geographies
Epistemic geographies of climate change
Climate state
Bad Weather
Data in Antarctic Science and Politics
The dynamics of coordinated comparisons
Parameterizations as Boundary Objects on the Climate Arena
Data Moves
For an empire of ‘all types of climate’
Transformation of the water-energy nexus in Turkey
Transnational Co-production of Knowledge
The Anthropocene Trading Zone
How Do Science and Technology Affect International Affairs
Science‐state alliances and climate engineering
Weather, climate, and agriculture
Weathering Risk
Soviet official critiques of the resource scarcity prediction by limits to growth report
Climate as resource and challenge
Shaping the World
Weedy Finance
From Bricolage to Collage
Paul Rotha at the BBC and The World Is Ours revisited
The World United in Studying Itself? Data and the Coloniality of the International Geophysical Year, 1957–1958
Mediating Environments and Objects as Knowledge Infrastructure
Knowing Their Place
Experiencing deep and global currents at a ‘Prototypical Strait’, 1870s and 1980s
Through the lens of the polar years
Weather Politics and the Making of International Order
Elemental infrastructures for atmospheric media
Volumising territorial sovereignty
Unpacking climate services
Visual perception at work
The Storm Lab
Lay Observers, Telegraph Lines, and Kansas Weather
Precaution, Preemption
"Infrastructural geopolitics" of climate knowledge
Knowledge infrastructures for the Anthropocene
Forms of Duration
Politique de recherche nationale et risque environnemental global
Machine Sky
Prognosis
Trading in the secretive commodity
| Unique citing works | 52 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,74 |
| Citation span | 2007 - 2026 (20) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 47 |