Sophie Haines

Sophie Haines is an anthropologist of development, environment, science & technology at the University of Edinburgh, U.K. Her research explores knowledge practices, environmental perceptions, and decision-making in contexts of social and ecological change. Three key areas of interest are: infrastructure and anticipation; environmental citizenship; and ecologies of knowledge. Projects to date have focused on highway planning and construction, the production and application of weather and climate forecasts, and the negotiation of environmental knowledges in watershed assessments and interventions. She has carried out ethnographic research and interview-based studies in Belize, Kenya and the UK. https://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/staff/sophie-haines

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Encountering the Climate Regime: “Useful” Climate Knowledge and the Work of Forecasts

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Encountering the Climate Regime: “Useful” Climate Knowledge and the Work of Forecasts

The processes of knowledge production and circulation bound up with the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) run alongside those of ot... More