Weather : Spaces, Mobilities and Affects

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 changes in weather patterns and climate change. Heat, dust, ice, snow, precipitation, sunlight, clouds, tides and fog are states of weather that impact on the ways in which humans become intertwined with landscapes. Our experiences with weather are diverse and ever-changing, and engaging with weather entangles humans with mobilities, materials and landscapes. This book thus explores affective and sensory resonances, drawing upon a variety of theoretical, empirical and creative material to investigate how weather is perceived in different social and cultural contexts. Key themes focus on the mobilities generated by weather, the affective and sensual potency of weather, and the diverse cultural forms and practices that exemplify how weather is historically, geographically and artistically represented.

Offering a social and cultural understanding of weather events, this book contributes to a growing literature on weather across various disciplines, including human geography and cultural geography, and will thus appeal to students and scholars of geography, sociology, humanities, cultural studies and the arts.

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.