Weathering Weather: Atmospheric Geographies of the Guiana Shield

Collins, Yolanda Ariadne

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Yolanda Ariadne Collins

Weathering Weather

Atmospheric Geographies of the Guiana Shield

In: Weathering: Ecologies of Exposure, ed. by Christoph F. E. Holzhey and Arnd Wedemeyer, Cultural Inquiry, 17 (Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2020), pp. 181–205

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This chapter argues that paying attention to the weather and its associated processes of geological, biological, and social weathering can destabilize knowledge traditions that insist on dichotomies. Looking to specific histories and current conditions in Guyana and Suriname, this chapter shows how notions of weathering can accommodate a wide range of referents, ranging from the weathering of rock to socio-political and historical afterlives of violent colonial displacements.

Part of Weathering Containing:
Preface / Arnd Wedemeyer, Christoph F. E. Holzhey
Weathering Ambivalences / Christoph F. E. Holzhey
Radiating Exposures / Alison Sperling
Weathering the Afterlife / Nicolò Crisafi, Manuele Gragnolati
Scaling from Weather to Climate / Daniel Liu
Enduring Ornament / Amelia Groom, M. Ty
The Weathering of the Trace / Damiano Sacco
Glaze / Umut Yıldırım
Weathering Weather
‘Locked out in nature’ / Anja Sunhyun Michaelsen
On Bad Weather / Facundo Vega
Representing the World, Weathering its End / Marlon Miguel
Enduring Rain / Claudia Peppel
Life Never Stops Being Violent / Vajiko Chachkhiani, Claudia Peppel
Confined Weathers / Delfina Cabrera

Title	Weathering Weather
Subtitle	Atmospheric Geographies of the Guiana Shield
Author(s)	Yolanda Ariadne Collins
Identifier	https://doi.org/10.37050/ci-17_09
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Description	This chapter argues that paying attention to the weather and its associated processes of geological, biological, and social weathering can destabilize knowledge traditions that insist on dichotomies. Looking to specific histories and current conditions in Guyana and Suriname, this chapter shows how notions of weathering can accommodate a wide range of referents, ranging from the weathering of rock to socio-political and historical afterlives of violent colonial displacements.
Is Part Of	Weathering
Place	Berlin
Publisher	ICI Berlin Press
Date	2020
Subject	Atmosphere Geography Climate Change Guiana Shield Forests Weathering
Rights	© by the author Except for images or otherwise noted, this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
Harvested	yes
Language	en-GB
short title	Weathering Weather
page start	181
page end	205
Source	Weathering: Ecologies of Exposure, ed. by Christoph F. E. Holzhey and Arnd Wedemeyer, Cultural Inquiry, 17 (Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2020), pp. 181–205
Bibliographic Citation	Yolanda Ariadne Collins, ‘Weathering Weather: Atmospheric Geographies of the Guiana Shield’, in Weathering: Ecologies of Exposure, ed. by Christoph F. E. Holzhey and Arnd Wedemeyer, Cultural Inquiry, 17 (Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2020), pp. 181–205 <https://doi.org/10.37050/ci-17_09>
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