Intuiting a Monsoonal Ethnography in Three Bay of Bengal Cities
Cullen, B. 2020. Intuiting a Monsoonal Ethnography in Three Bay of Bengal Cities. GeoHumanities. 7 (1), pp. 148-163. https://doi.org/10.1080/2373566X.2020.1798800
Cullen, B. 2020. Intuiting a Monsoonal Ethnography in Three Bay of Bengal Cities. GeoHumanities. 7 (1), pp. 148-163. https://doi.org/10.1080/2373566X.2020.1798800
Title | Intuiting a Monsoonal Ethnography in Three Bay of Bengal Cities |
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Type | Journal article |
Authors | Cullen, B. |
Abstract | This visual essay offers an exploration of monsoonal materiality and agency in the urban environments of three cities situated around the Bay of Bengal: Chennai, Dhaka and Yangon. The text and images emerge from a research project exploring intersections between changing monsoon climates and rapid urbanisation in South Asia. Multi-modal, more-than-human ethnography has been employed during the course of research to explore how the lively materiality of the monsoon is entangled within urban lived environments. The essay outlines the process of intuiting a monsoonal ethnography and conveys the power of immersive field experience. By collecting and curating an assemblage of visual material and fieldnotes, this piece seeks to evoke the materiality and agency of the monsoon, itself a complex assemblage that manifests in different ways in different places. The juxtaposition of image and text conveys the generative and multifaceted agency of the monsoon and the urban environments it becomes enmeshed within. |
Keywords | fieldwork, monsoon, more-than-human, urban ethnography, weathering |
Journal | GeoHumanities |
Journal citation | 7 (1), pp. 148-163 |
ISSN | 2373-566X |
2373-5678 | |
Year | 2020 |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
Publisher's version | License CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 File Access Level Open (open metadata and files) |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1080/2373566X.2020.1798800 |
PubMed ID | 34423121 |
Web address (URL) | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/2373566X.2020.1798800 |
Publication dates | |
Published online | 07 Nov 2020 |
Published in print | 2021 |
Funder | ERC - European Research Council |
H2020 European Research Council |