ResQuNYSredo

Overarching social-theoretical question: How do emerging phenomena become (and un-become) objects of governance?

Overarching Research Question
 * How does heat become (and un-become) problematized (Foucault) as an object of governance in NYS, and to what (cosmo-)political consequence?**

Theoretical Questions and Literatures __--> underlaying/cross-cutting question: How can this mode of inquiry cut across established conceptions of governance, governing and its boundaries?__
 * __Theoretical-conceptual:__ How do apperati of heat re-shape our understanding of governing life?
 * __Procedural-utopian:__ What possibility spaces (Stengers) are opened up and foreclosed in the arrangement of heat apperati?
 * __Boundary-reconfiguration:__ Who can (not) – and how – participate in these apperati, on what terms and under what conditions (set by whom/what), and in what locations?
 * __Critical:__ What styles of governance emerge in different, potentially contradictory or co-operating, heat apperati, and how can the be brought to a "tipping point" (Bauer, 2014) to open them up to being more democratic, just and inclusive?

New: How do we deal with controversies where sides have been deliberately fed with wrong information (re. Guardian article on google algorithm and the right)

through Foucualt’s problematiztion & apparatus, + Stenger's cosmopolitics
 * Use "styles" in the intersection with apparatus?**

Empirical Research (Sub-)Questions
 * How does heat (un-)become problematised?
 * Where is heat a problem? Considered by whom? How is it made sense of?
 * What are the actors problematizing heat?
 * What actors are (not) problematized in gov. heat?
 * How is heat problematized accross scales?
 * What are the imaginaries mobilized in problematizing heat
 * public health
 * housing
 * build envir
 * UHI
 * Climate change
 * Work
 * production (agriculture)
 * What are the technologies of heat gov?
 * AC
 * Trees, greening
 * laws
 * mortality rates
 * energy consumption
 * milk production
 * Who governs heat how?
 * State
 * Climate science
 * Public health
 * Sanitation & Hygiene
 * Parks & Rec
 * Maintainence
 * Building codes
 * Work regs
 * ACs,
 * farmers
 * stakeholders
 * How is heat governed, by whom, where and in what ways?
 * How does governance play out across scales?
 * How does NYS govern heat through
 * What laws regulate heat, where?
 * How is science involved in regulating heat, through law and elsewhere?
 * What heat standards (do not) exist? Where do they exist, where are they absent?
 * What heat standards (do not) exist? Where do they exist, where are they absent?

Interview Questions How is heat sensed and made sense of, where, and by whom?

Who has the authority to speak on behalf of heat, on what bases, to what ends?

How do different epistemologies of heat shift how we plan for, build against and prepare for heat?

Who is invited in to negotiate the futures of a heated NYS? Who is not? To what political consequence?

How are the emergent boundaries and margins configured to invite/lock out?

What are different “centers”/places for problematizing heat? How do they interact, intersect and communicate (or not?)

What temporal affordances are necessary for addressing heat? Who has these affordances?

Who makes mitigating decisions on behalf of others not considered capable, willing, … of making these decisions?

What role does ignorance & uncertainties play in the assigning of authority over heat?

What is the political culture, and the abundant changes to come, that shape planning for heat in NYS?