“How to Control Fire on a Burning Continent takes us on a fascinating journey of the worlds of fire control: emergency operations rooms, fire risk assessments, fire science, firefighters, and firefighting. Neale persuasively argues that in many cases climate crisis is being confronted not as a rupture that changes everything, but through reinvestment in the ‘impossible promise of environmental control.’”—Stephen Collier, Professor of City and Regional Planning, University of California, Berkeley“This book offers a much-needed account of the patchy, evolving grammars and logics of wildfire management amidst global climate disruption. Confronting the colonial instinct to control that often misdirects human efforts, Tim Neale offers an alternative that draws on Indigenous approaches to living with wildfires, with care and humility.”—Candis Callison, co-author of Reckoning: Journalism's Limits and Possibilities
