Jessica Barnes is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography and Environment & Sustainability Program at the University of South Carolina. Her work focuses on the culture and politics of resource use and environmental change in the Middle East.  Dr Barnes’s publications include Cultivating the Nile: the everyday politics of water in Egypt (Duke University Press, 2014), Climate cultures: anthropological perspectives on climate change (co-edited with Michael R. Dove, Yale University Press, 2015), and articles in a number of peer-reviewed journals, including Critique of Anthropology, Social Studies of Science, and Geoforum. Her current project, funded by a fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies, draws on ethnographic and archival work to examine food security in Egypt and the long-standing identification of security with self-sufficiency in wheat and bread.

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• Prognosis: visions of environmental futures (Andrew S. Mathews and Jessica Barnes)Sensing the ice: field science, models, and expert intimacy with knowledge (Jessica O’Reilly)Uncertainty in the signal: modelling Egypt’s water futures (Jessica Barnes)Subsoil abundance and surface absence: a junior mining company and its performance of prognosis in Northwestern Ecuador (David Kneas)Mines and signs: resource and political futures in Bangladesh (Nusrat Sabina Chowdhury)Chronicle of a disaster foretold: scientific risk assessment, public participation, and the politics of imperilment in Bristol Bay, Alaska (Karen Hébert)A doubtful hope: resource affect in a future oil economy (Gisa Weszkalnys)Liquid Oman: oil, water, and causality in Southern Arabia (Mandana Limbert)Prognosis past: the temporal politics of disaster in Colombia (Austin Zeiderman)Claiming futures (Elizabeth Ferry)Index