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Bates, J. orcid.org/0000-0001-7266-8470 and Goodale, P. (2017) Making data flow for the climate risk market. Television and New Media, 18 (8). pp. 753-768. ISSN 1527-4764
Abstract
In 2011, the U.K. government announced that the national meteorological agency would be releasing a significant volume of data as part of its Open Data policy agenda. This article explores the interrelationship between this announcement and efforts to boost the competitiveness of the United Kingdom’s weather derivatives industry. Primary qualitative data are analyzed to produce a genealogical account of these policy developments, and Braman’s concept of “informational power” is used to frame a critical narrative of the broader dynamics of power at play. We argue that although there have been significant tensions around efforts to open the United Kingdom’s weather data, these have largely been absorbed by and, ultimately, contained within the hegemonic structures of the United Kingdom’s neoliberal state. We conclude by arguing that this struggle needs to be broadened and externalized beyond the state so that critical questions about the deepening data-driven financialization of climate change can be addressed.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2016 The Author(s). This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
Keywords: | Weather derivatives; climate risk markets; open data; meteorological data; data policy; informational power |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Information School (Sheffield) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL (AHRC) AH/L009978/1 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 07 Oct 2016 13:14 |
Last Modified: | 11 Jan 2018 10:06 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1177/1527476416677114 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | SAGE Publications |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1177/1527476416677114 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:105446 |
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