The Weather Is Always a Method

Seetharama Bhat, H. 2021. The Weather Is Always a Method. in: Chandler, D., Rothe, D. and Muller, F. (ed.) International Relations in the Anthropocene: New Agendas, New Agencies and New Approaches Switzerland Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 407-423

Chapter titleThe Weather Is Always a Method
AuthorsSeetharama Bhat, H.
EditorsChandler, D., Rothe, D. and Muller, F.
Abstract

The engagement with the Anthropocene is a form of methodological trouble for International Relations (IR). Interrupting human-nature binaries and subject-object divides requires work. As an example of a possible methodological approach in/of the Anthropocene, this chapter focuses on the weather—not simply as an object of knowledge but as a material knowledge system in the making and unmaking of IR itself. This chapter shows how the weather is always a method in international relations and its study. There are three parts to this chapter. The first part thinks with rice as a commodity of monsoonal spaces, bringing it in conversation with the spatio-temporalities of IR. The second part engages with Black Studies and scholarship that examines the lives and afterlives of transatlantic slavery and how some of that scholarship, embedded within IR, thinks of the weather. The third is an invitation for speculation with the knowledge systems in/of airborne matters we have come to deeply know.

KeywordsAnthropocene, International Relations, Weather, Methodology
Book titleInternational Relations in the Anthropocene: New Agendas, New Agencies and New Approaches
Page range407-423
Year2021
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan
Publication dates
Published21 Apr 2021
Place of publicationSwitzerland
ISBN9783030530136
9783030530143
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53014-3_22
FunderMonsoon Assemblages
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File Access Level
Open (open metadata and files)
Web address (URL)http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53014-3_22
JournalInternational Relations in the Anthropocene

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