Hannah Knox is Max Gluckman Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester. Her work focuses on the anthropology of technology, infrastructure, and climate change, and her recent books include Thinking Like a Climate: Governing a City in Times of Environmental Change (DUP, 2025) and Ethnography for a Data Saturated World (co-edited with Dawn Nafus; MUP, 2018). Her current research focuses on local and community energy projects in the UK, exploring them as sites of infrastructural deliberation about the social and cultural implications of climate change.
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Balance
In this piece, we consider unbuilding as a practice of restoring balance. At first glance, infrastructures usually appear to materialize equilibrium, holding th... More
Unbuilding: Introduction
Confronted with the crumbling legacy of twentieth-century infrastructures, the toxic effects of extractive and manufacturing industries, and the shadow futures ... More
Unbuilding
Confronting the entangled legacies of failed infrastructures, toxic materials, and compromised futures, this series opens up the concept of unbuilding as a crit... More
Substituting the Individual for the Collective in the Climate Crisis
Climate action, from the global activism of Fridays for Future, to the UNFCCC COP summits, to government designs for a “green new deal,” hinges on the shared re... More
A Journey into Model Land
Climate change policy-making is nothing without climate models. At global, national, and local levels, climate models of different kinds—from General Circulatio... More
A Response to Alessandro Rippa and Colleagues
Dear Alessandro, Matthäus, Radhika, Agniezka, Carolin, Juliane, Lisa, and Martin, Thank you for the careful and close reading of our book, and for the opportuni... More
Is There an Ontology to the Digital?
It might be argued that anthropology has come late to the question of whether there is an ontology to the digital. Although scholars in software and media studi... More
Digital Ontology
It might be argued that anthropology has come late to the question of whether there is an ontology to the digital. Although scholars in software and media studi... More