ResQuLMBArchive

=**Overarching main research question**=

--> When do we govern heat? When do we govern something else? (e.g. Bangalore: Are we governing heat? Are we governing innovation-initiatives? Are we governing infrastructures? ...) – How can I make this dimension visible?
 * How is heat governed in different settings, and with what political implications?**

Do I want to write a "social theory of heat"? Is heat a looking glass? An empirical object? ...

What are the (specific?) sites and places where heat starts to matter, for whom? What are the politics of these differences? E.g. heat matters enourmously in climate change science and governance, but it matters differently than it does for people that are over- or underheated. And it often is rendered invisible when it comes to the governance of e.g. infrastructures, whilst it clearly is an important matter in there too...

1) What do I want to become an expert of?
 * Questions I need to find answer to:**

1a) Where do I want to work, talking with/to whom?

2) What literatures am I conversation with?

2a) What literatures do I want to see the world through/with?

3) What story do I want to tell?

4) Why heat?

5) Why not heat?

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? --> Overheating --> Underheating --> Am I studying circulatory systems of heat (body, metabolisms, cities, infrastructures (of heating and cooling), transportation,...)

Composition
 * Social Theory Questions **

(Why can't we wrap our heads around heat? When can we? To what consequence?)
 * [1] Epistemologically**
 * How/Why is heat resistant to "understanding"? and How/Why are phenomena resistant to be "understood" in terms of heat


 * [2] Phenomenologically:**
 * How do people understand, experience, sense heat?

[1] Marres -- object-oriented politics and issue formation rivised
 * [3] Systemic-Infra-Structural Cascades / Political Economy**
 * How do structural conditions stratify the impact of heat stressors (political economy)


 * [4] Methodologically**
 * How do strategies for dealing with heat form or volatilize?

**Empirical Research Questions**

__Interpretations of Heat__
 * [1] Epistemologies 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] Phenomenology of 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?__


 * [3] Political Economies of Heat**
 * 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?


 * [4] “Methodologically” **
 * How do strategies for governing [with] heat form or volatilize?

--> When do we govern heat? When do we govern something else? (e.g. Bangalore: Are we governing heat? Are we governing innovation-initiatives? Are we governing infrastructures? ...) – How can I make this dimension visible?

Do I want to write a "social theory of heat"? Is heat a looking glass? An empirical object? ...

What are the (specific?) sites and places where heat starts to matter, for whom? What are the politics of these differences? E.g. heat matters enourmously in climate change science and governance, but it matters differently than it does for people that are over- or underheated. And it often is rendered invisible when it comes to the governance of e.g. infrastructures, whilst it clearly is an important matter in there too...

1) What do I want to become an expert of?
 * Questions I need to find answer to: **

1a) Where do I want to work, talking with/to whom?

2) What literatures am I conversation with?

2a) What literatures do I want to see the world through/with?

3) What story do I want to tell?

4) Why heat?

5) Why not heat?