1st Edition

Becoming Weather Weather, Embodiment and Affect

By Sarah Wright Copyright 2025
170 Pages 17 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

170 Pages 17 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

170 Pages 17 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Following a relational, Indigenous-led approach grounded in 25 years of collaborative work, this book looks to weather and climate, tracing the embodied, emplaced and affective ways weather co-constitutes people, place and time/s raising critical questions of ethics, politics and becoming. Becoming weather leads the reader through a reflexive engagement with weather, seeking to shed light on... Read more

List of Figures

Preface and Acknowledgements

Microseasons

1. Introduction: Living Weather        

2. Contours A: Weathering Power and Positionality

3. Contours B: Weathering Places, Weathering Unceded Land        

4. Contours C: Weathering Time      

5. Contours D: Weathering the Body

6. Contours E: Weathering Connections and Co-Becoming Climate

7. Conclusion 

References     

Endnotes

Biography

Sarah Wright is Professor and Future Fellow in Geography and Development Studies at the University of Newcastle, Australia. She works in critical development studies, with a focus on geographies of weather, and Indigenous and postcolonial geographies. She is part of two Indigenous-led research collectives in Australia, the Bawaka Collective and Yandaarra, and has worked with Filipino social movements for 25 years. She lives with her family on Gumbaynggirr Country on the mid-north coast NSW in Australia. Her collaborative writing has won several awards including the NSW Premier's History Awards (2022, with Yandaarra) and the Prime Minister’s Literary award for non-fiction (2020, with the Bawaka Collective as Gay’wu Group of Women) and been shortlisted for the Chief Minister's NT Book Award, the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards (2020, with the Bawaka Collective as Gay’wu Group of Women) and the National Book Award of the Philippines (2019 with Diosa Labiste).