Dr. Astrida Neimanis (University of British Columbia, Okanagan) and Dr. Jennifer Hamilton (University of New England) joined the EDGES research collective meeting on January 26th following the scholars’ IRES seminar series talk on the feminist concept of “weathering”. The talk described how the term can be used to guide research design and analysis in interdisciplinary environmental studies, illustrating how this concept works using practical examples from their research as The Weathering Collective, and other initiatives in Canada (The FEELed Lab) and Australia (Community Weathering Station). The two explained that, attentive to the logic of weathering, we can build a new language to speak about how meteorological weather intersects with anthropocentric politics and infrastructures in ways that insist that weather, and by extension climate change, are always more-than-meteorological. Weathering demands that research on climate change attend to the experiences and inheritances of bodies in all of their differences.

Dr. Neimans and Dr. Hamilton joined EDGES members for further discussion of weathering as well as feminist infrastructure, exploring ways in which these concepts intersect and overlap with EDGES research projects and themes, and answering questions inspired by their broad bodies of work. Thank you for joining us, Astrida and Jennifer!