Everyday weather-ways: Negotiating the temporalities of home and work in Melbourne, Australia

Vet, Eliza de; Head, Lesley

doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2019.08.022

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“…In his work on weather-worlds, Ingold (2005Ingold ( , 2007Ingold ( , 2010 offers a systematic account of how weather is experienced (see also Barry et al, 2020;De Vet and Head, 2020;Schnegg, 2019). Given the ubiquity and everydayness of weather experiences, such an account may at first seem trivial.…”

Section: Weatheringmentioning

confidence: 99%

Sensing weather and climate: Phenomenological and ethnographic approaches

Hepach

Lüder

2023

Environment and Planning F

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In light of the increasing tendency to view extreme weather events as experiences of climate change, we revisit how weather and climate are measured and experienced, contributing to an ongoing dialogue on the atmospheric between phenomenology, media studies and geography. We make use of and complicate the concept of sensing to make sense of the heterogeneous modes of experiencing and measuring weather. First, we detail the history and phenomenology of weather between experience and measurement. Providing evidence for our theoretical account, we go through two ethnographic examples of weather-sensing, looking at the work of meteorologists and a weather-machine. From weather-sensing, we extrapolate the possibility of climate-sensing to aid in the comprehension of climate change. Sensing, we conclude, promises to reconnect weather and climate, the measured and experienced, the proximate and remote, the bodily and abstract.

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Sensing weather and climate: Phenomenological and ethnographic approaches

Hepach

Lüder

2023

Environment and Planning F

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“…Yet, it is the ‘climatic-affective atmospheres’ (Verlie, 2019b) that expose how these climatic trends and threats such as fires, extreme heat, droughts, flooding, and river erosions – all experienced across the communities in our research – are entangled with how people feel about where they live. This entails attention to how daily weather conditions, seasonal changes, and climate variability become active participants in place-making and hence shape the ways people, places, bodies, and emotions and affect are relationally imbricated, in rural and farming contexts (Adams-Hutcheson, 2019) as well as urban settings (de Vet and Head, 2020).…”

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Walking journeys into everyday climatic-affective atmospheres: The emotional labour of balancing grief and hope

Tschakert

Coudray

Horwitz

2023

Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space

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The postapocalypse as a mobilising discourse for climate action operates largely out of anger over experienced and anticipated injustices as well as paradoxical hope that fuses loss and grief with freed-up solidarities in support of liveable futures. However, negotiating this emotional tension can be both draining and isolating. Here, we examine how white settler populations in Western Australia balance grief and hope in places they hold dear and the role emotions such as sadness, worry, disappointment, joy, and pride play in relational place making. Through an innovative in situ and mobile methodology we call Walking Journeys, we trace how participants navigate their climatic-affective atmospheres and make sense of their agency in changing ‘Places of the Heart’. We find evidence for emotional complexities of solastalgia where pessimistic outlooks for the future are wrapped up in prefigurative visions of a better world. By holding the tension between paralysis and restoration, urban and rural residents explore affective co-existence and differential belonging in their homes and the landscapes around them. We highlight the challenge of enfranchising emotions beyond individuals and conclude by endorsing entangled, reflexive, and (re-)generative responsibilities for hopeful postapocalyptic journeying.

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“…As a result, weather and climatic variation are strongly influencing when and how much electricity is generated (IRENA, 2020). In addition, weather shapes energy demand because it affects people's everyday practices (de Vet & Head, 2020;Ghanem et al, 2016). Understanding and responding to these relationships between localised energy generation, energy consumption, and the weather are increasingly important in realising sectoral ambitions for a distributed energy future.…”

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“…Among social scientists, considerable attention is devoted to studying how the weather informs and is informed by everyday experience. Some highlight how people sense and embody weather (Madsen & Gram-Hanssen, 2017;Vannini et al, 2012;Vannini & Taggart, 2014), or ask how weather is socially and culturally contingent (Hitchings et al, 2015;Vannini & McCright, 2007), mediated by materials such as clothing and buildings (Clement, 2020;Rantala et al, 2011;Strengers & Maller, 2011), and mitigated, embraced, and even produced through everyday practices (de Vet & Head, 2020;Oppermann & Walker, 2019;Strengers & Maller, 2017). In addition to quantitative measures of temperature, rainfall, or humidity, the "feels like" temperature 1 included in weather forecasts reflects embodied experiences, which inform daily routines.…”

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“…In this article, we respond to these challenges by discussing a novel method to engage people in conversations about the weather in relation to renewable energy and everyday practice. A seemingly simple proposition given that talking about the weather is a common part of the daily vernacular of human interactions, conversational engagement is often challenging in a research context precisely because of the weather's pervasive and normalised presence (de Vet, 2014). We know that people can talk about the weather in a general sense, just as they can talk about their practices (Hitchings, 2012).…”

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Playing games with the weather: A card game method for engaging households in conversations about renewable energy generation and everyday practice

Martin

Strengers

2022

Geographical Research

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This article examines the potential of a novel card game method designed to provide insights into connections between mundane everyday practices and renewable energy generation. The method was developed as part of an ethnographic project exploring Australian householders' experiences of weather and climate and evaluating their impacts on everyday practices and localised energy production. The card game drew inspiration from other similar methods and exemplifies intentional underdesign. Such design describes deliberately unrefined research methods meant to provoke participant engagement and playfulness because they are incomplete, irrelevant, or inadequate and thereby draw out tacit and unexamined lay expertise. Examples from the project reported in the article show how the card game method facilitated conversations revealing how weather knowledge and understandings inform awareness of renewable energy availability and practices that depend on it. We conclude that the card game method can help researchers explore relationships that exist across weather, energy, and practice. We also propose other areas where this method and intentional underdesign could generate more productive insights for geographers and others in allied disciplines.

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Everyday weather-ways: Negotiating the temporalities of home and work in Melbourne, Australia

Cited by 17 publications

References 24 publications

Sensing weather and climate: Phenomenological and ethnographic approaches

Sensing weather and climate: Phenomenological and ethnographic approaches

Walking journeys into everyday climatic-affective atmospheres: The emotional labour of balancing grief and hope

Playing games with the weather: A card game method for engaging households in conversations about renewable energy generation and everyday practice

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