1st Edition

Weather: Spaces, Mobilities and Affects

Edited By Kaya Barry, Maria Borovnik, Tim Edensor Copyright 2021
284 Pages 25 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

284 Pages 25 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

284 Pages 25 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book delves into the everyday spaces, diverse mobilities and affective potency of weather. It presents cutting-edge research into the multiplicity of weather phenomena and analyses the lived experiences of humans in conjunction with contemporary issues, notably climate change. The book considers how everyday experiences of weather in the mundane lives of people are linked to broader... Read more

1. Introduction: Placing Weather

Tim Edensor, Kaya Barry, Maria Borovnik

2. Research in Weather: Notes on Climate, Seasons, Weather and Fieldwork Mobilities

Phillip Vannini and April Vannini

3. Moved by Wind and Storms: Imaginings in Changing Landscape

Tonya Rooney

4. Walking with the Rain: Sensing Family Mobility On-Foot

Susannah Clement

5. Running with the Weather: The Case of Marathons

Jonas Larsen and Ole B Jensen

6. Unexpected Turbulence in Hypermobilities

Kaya Barry

7. Seafarers and Weather

Maria Borovnik

8. Snow Matters: From Romantic Background to Creative Playground in Alpine Tourist Practices

Martin Trandberg Jensen and Szilvia Gyimóthy

9. Making the Santa Ana Wind Legible: The Aeolian Production of Los Angeles

Gareth Hoskins

10. Seeing with Australian Light: Representations and Landscapes

Tim Edensor

11. Foggy Landscapes

Maria Borovnik and Kaya Barry

12. Sensing Bushfire: Exploring Shifting Perspectives as Hazard Moves Through the Landscape

Katharine Haynes, Matalena Tofa and Joshua Whittaker

13. Bangla Bricks: Constellations of Monsoonal Mobilities

Beth Cullen

14. Weathering Colonisation: Aboriginal Resistance and Survivance in the Siting of the Capital

Sarah Wright, Lara Daley, Faith Curtis

15. Dwelling and the Weather: Farming in a Mobilised Climate

Gail Adams-Hutcheson

16. Nuclear Warfare and Weather (Im)Mobilities: From Mushroom Clouds to Fallout

Becky Alexis-Martin

17. Writing (Extra) Planetary Geographies of Weather Worlds

Kimberley Peters

Biography

Kaya Barry is an artist and cultural geographer working in the areas of mobilities, migration, tourism, material cultures and arts research. She is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Griffith University, Australia, exploring how migration experiences are conditioned through materiality, everyday routines and visual aesthetics.

Maria Borovnik is a Senior Lecturer in Development Studies at Massey University, New Zealand, co-coordinates the Mobilities Network to Aotearoa New Zealand, is on the Editorial Board of Transfers: Interdisciplinary Journal of Mobility Studies and is Book Review Editor of the New Zealand Geographer.

Tim Edensor is Professor of Human Geography at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. He has written books on tourism at the Taj Mahal (1998), national identity and everyday life (2002), industrial ruins (2005), light and dark (2017) and urban materiality (2020). He is co-editor of the Routledge Handbook of Place.