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This thesis asks "How is heat 'pinned down' in order to govern it and govern through it, and with what consequences?".This question is threefold: 1) Understanding heat as always relational, establishing heat as a concrete epistemological object is an active act of ordering and appropriating. The ways heat gets objectified in this way has consequences for the aspects of heat that get foregrounded and rendered invisible. Choices of knowing and not-knowing become explicit in the translational strategies that run into making heat an object that can be governed – and thus also becomes a means for world-making and world-governing. How we understand heat is a reflection of our societal prioritising, and thus also always entails stories about marginalisation, forgetting, and ignoring. 2) In asking for how heat is sensed and made sense of, this thesis also asks for the ways governance of heat is enacted, both in terms of governing heat and governing through heat. This second part of the question asks for governance styles and political, social, cultural and technological means for governing and how society and heat are co-articulated and co-ordered. What are the problematizations of these governance systems (e.g. what are the consequences of governing heat in an ideological framework of public health?) Finally, 3) this thesis pays careful attention to the consequences that emerge from such orderings, particularly focussing on systematic oppression in systems of heat and how oppression and marginalization are produced in these systems of heat governance, for example in the production of ignorance, priorities, seeing and unseeing (in a close connection to Fleck's thought styles).
 * What this thesis asks**

Working through three cases, with different governing styles of heat for each of them, this thesis travels between places: Bangalore (India), New York City (USA) and Vienna (Austria). These are three places that problematizes and experience heat differently. Bangalore is in the mids of an unfolding slow disaster, placed on the intersections of overheating and melting life and infrastructures, of large-scale urban transformation through state investment in "innovation structures" and the erosion of decentral mechanisms ordering heat and social life. New York is a case of decentral heat governance as well, deeply embedded in the individualist US culture: Here the individual A/C unit is center staged, producing cool air for those who can afford it while heating the outside city air – and heat for those who cannot afford technological cooling. Vienna relies on the build urban environment for governing heat: old housing structures made air conditioning by an large obsolete. Yet the city is increasingly heating, bringing into question old styles of dealing and living with heat, putting heat governance on center stage in local politics and the city's urban planning, placing Vienna on the cross roads between its pasts and futures of heat. All three cases are embedded in their own social and cultural contexts, with their own histories of heat, and technological appropriations for mitigating its effects for humans, nonhumans, material and infrastructural entities.
 * The cases of this thesis**


 * How this thesis is governed: Structure and Style**


 * Each chapter travels between the three geographical spaces of the thesis, while center-staging one of them in each chapter
 * Each chapter addresses the same analytical questions in different ways:
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different stories about the margins and how we travel the boundaries ||
 * Procedures of Heat Governance || Different Modes of Heat (Thought Styles & Ideological Framweworks of Heat) || Locations || optionD || optionC || Scales of heat and islands/margins of heat ||
 * Sensing Heat || Public Health || Paris (asking the question) || Social Histories of Heat || Stories about Heat, aspect a || start at the center and the top, classical polity governance of heat ||
 * Governing Heat || Infrastructure || New York (settled, calm, nonproblem) || Sensing and Epistemologies and Object-Making || Stories about Heat, aspect c || moving towards the margins and across scales
 * Re.Imagining Heat || Heat as xyz || Bangalore (unsettled, slow, silent) || Locations and Relations of Governance, From Top to Bottom, Center to Margins, ... || Stories about heat, aspect e ||  ||
 * Resisting Heat || ... || Vienna (future) || New ways, maps, agendas ... || Sensing and Sense making of Heat, and its politics/consequences ||  ||

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