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** How do people “pin down”* heat differently, **  ** so they can govern heat and govern through it, **   ** and with what political implications? **  ** (cosmopolitically) ** __Key questions__ 1) Legal, regulatory, emergency planning: Governance of heat
 * How is heat understood, identified, made visible, and objectified? (organiz. ignorance + Boezeman & Daan, health & statistics, urban heat island, rural??)
 * How is heat conceptualized, and problematized, so there emerges the need for governance, and at the same time fixes heat in government regimes
 * What locales and locations
 * What populations, issues, ...
 * What is governend in governing heat, who, and to what extent?
 * Who is governing heat where (compartmentalization)

2) What is resisted against in social movements of heat? What gets problematized in problematizing heat? How do different actors problematize heat?

3) Is heat regulation the answer? How are we gonna live in heat?


 * “pin down” to underscore the fluidity of the term

__Site questions:__
 * Geographical, topological, climate conditions
 * “Overheated” vs “Underheating”
 * Different circulatory and governing systems of heat
 * Urban vs. rural
 * Comparison! Interesting Places
 * o India (Banguluru)
 * o Europe (Vienna à topographically and climatologically interesting; in how far can Vienna become a microcosmos for Europe?)
 * o US (NYC, bc NYC; Is NYC to “European”? California? Arizona?)

Heat is racist, ... - rural areas: extractive, energy, infrastructure, dominatingly white, dominatingly articulating farmer's needs? - cities: inner cities, racism, economically poor, homeless, ...

--> what knowledge orders, assumptions, value judgments etc run into the knowledge orders around heat that enable governance and restrict marginalized in their abilitiy to think throuhg, counter act, plan and prepare, ... against/for heat? --> What are the consequences for that? --> Where are the "knowlwedge cneters"? WHat are the igonred knowledges around heat (e.g. farmers, e.g. kids opening hydrants, ... how is that's outlawing e.g. restricting ability to "cool off"? What about electricity security vs. push for air conditioning? Who is driving that ...) --> articulations of heat: UHI, drought, ... What is my understanding of that phenomenon? Do I draw on understandings from the field? How do I want to conceptualize heat, why, and to what purpose? Am I operating in the thinking of global warming/climate change/...? Or is it something else?

__Scales/Orders/Sites/Categorizations__
 * Microscopic
 * Organic
 * Chemical
 * Physiological
 * Sensorial
 * Individual
 * Micro
 * Meso
 * Macro
 * Ecological
 * Political
 * Scientific
 * Topological
 * Climatological

** Social Theoretical Questions **

(Why can't we wrap our heads around heat? When can we? To what consequence?)
 * [1] [Epistemologically &] Ontologically **
 * How/Why is heat varyingly resistant to "understanding"? and How/Why are phenomena varyingly resistant to be "understood" in terms of heat?
 * o How are ontologies of heat situated?
 * o How is heat constructed as situated knowledge?
 * How are different ontologies of heat and the governance of heat co-produced?
 * In how far arise political problems from an epistemology of heat that seeks to produce ontologies? What would be alternative epistemologies of heat?
 * In how far does it make sense to use an ontological language for heat?
 * In how far does the “fluidity”/ambivalence of heat resist an ontological ordering? What would be a context-flexible ontology?
 * How is heat ordered, organized and conceptualized differently?
 * What are the epistemological politics of heat?
 * Who [gets to] produces/articulates epistemologies of heat?
 * o For whom?
 * o Where?
 * o To what relevance and consequence?
 * o How are they co-articulated? Conflicting? Cumulative?
 * How does context matter for the production of epistemologies and ontologies of heat?
 * How does context matter for the production of epistemologies and ontologies of heat?

__ Interpretations of Heat __
 * How do (what) phenomena* (not) get associated with heat? By whom? In what contexts?
 * What are alternate/competing interpretations, narrative frames, and discursive formations?
 * How do they structure inequalities, impacts, responses, etc. to heat?
 * What kinds of expertise and knowledge formations are mobilized in interpreting phenomena as heat?
 * How do they shape the possibility spaces in addressing heat stressors?
 * How are phenomena* dissociated from heat? By whom? In what contexts?
 * What kinds of expertise/knowledge formations are mobilized in dissociating phenomena from heat?
 * What (social) problems and relationships are foregrounded/hidden through this dissociating?
 * What are the advantages/benefits, and what are the problems with dissociating phenomena from heat?
 * How are relationships of dependency, power, injustice, etc. challenged and/or fostered in these competing interpretations?
 * What are the politics of these associations and dissociations?
 * What are the foundations, means and effects of association/disassociation (from discursive formation to embodied epistemologies and "alterlife")
 * how do I operationalize "phenomena of heat"? (Comparison across cultures? Shifting Partial Perspectives?)
 * What competing/conflicting interpretations of heat phenomena are available in different contexts, and to what consequences?
 * How do epistemologies of heat culturally, socially, technologically, and materially differ?
 * What are social, cultural, technological, material constituents of epistemologies of heat?
 * What different epistemologies and expertise are mobilized for understanding heat, and how?


 * [2] Phenomenologically: **
 * How do [people] [how to extend phenology beyond the individual/human?] understand, experience, sense heat?
 * How are bodies and heat composed?
 * How do we* understand our bodies in composition with/as composed in heat?
 * How are different individual, biological, social, cultural, material, ... bodies associated through heat? (also: Murphey: altered states)
 * How do bodies incorporate scales of heat (sensory, chemistry, biology, physiology...)?
 * How does the phenomenology of heat shape our epsitemologies of understanding a "world of heat"? What are the politics of our phenomenological capacities (and incapacities – – – e.g. the incapacity to sense the stressors of heat in mental illness, medication, deterioration, social isolation...)?
 * What are the social compositions of our sensories for heat?
 * what are the "natural discriminators" for sensing heat (e.g. try heat vs. humid heat...)
 * What are the subjects and objects of operationalizing heat in different ways? Who senses heat, how? Who does not?

[1] Marres -- object-oriented politics and issue formation rivised --> Overheating --> Underheating --> Am I studying circulatory systems of heat (body, metabolisms, cities, infrastructures (of heating and cooling), transportation,...)
 * [3] Systemic-Infra-Structural Cascades / Political Economy **
 * How do structural conditions stratify the impact of heat stressors (political economy)
 * Who/what is governed in governing heat? What are the morals, values, beliefs, and ideologies incorporated by different regiments, styles, logics of heat governance?
 * What kinds of boundedness, boundaries, margins, insides and outsides are constructed?
 * When does heat become visible/matter? On what terms, for whom? What subjectivities are constructed with/through heat? What kinds of knowledge, expertise and epistemologies matter in that context?
 * Across what scales?
 * What kind of "heat" are we talking about?


 * How do structural conditions stratify the impact of heat stressors (political economy)
 * What are the structural conditions that produce heat?
 * What stressors are incorporated in these conditions
 * How do they become visible, when, and under what circumstances/to what effect?
 * How are the made invisible and contained?
 * • What are the subjects and objects of "heated compositions"
 * Who matters how in the ways we compose heat, society, culture, technological systems...
 * In how far can heated compositions be understood as a technology of governance? Who/what is governed? Who/what is governed by being made visible/invisible?
 * In how far has sensitivity to heat (its visibliity, its issue formation and its invisibilitiy, formation as non-issue) a role in the form and format of governing/governance?