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 title | The Weather Is Always a Method |
|---|---|
| Authors | Seetharama Bhat, H. |
| Editors | Chandler, 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. |
| Keywords | Anthropocene, International Relations, Weather, Methodology |
| Book title | International Relations in the Anthropocene: New Agendas, New Agencies and New Approaches |
| Page range | 407-423 |
| Year | 2021 |
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Publication dates | |
| Published | 21 Apr 2021 |
| Place of publication | Switzerland |
| ISBN | 9783030530136 |
| 9783030530143 | |
| Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53014-3_22 |
| Funder | Monsoon Assemblages |
| File | File Access Level Open (open metadata and files) |
| Web address (URL) | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53014-3_22 |
| Journal | International Relations in the Anthropocene |