A Phenomenology of Weather and Qi

Progress in Human Geography

2021

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This article calls into question recent attempts to move beyond, to ‘post’ phenomenology by highlighting the continued relevance of key phenomenological concepts (intentionality and correlationism) for human geography. I show how these concepts are pivotal to addressing problems raised by post-phenomenologists themselves concerning affects and objects. Drawing on recent phenomenological theory, I develop a spatial account of how subject and object cohere in experience. I argue that the very relation between/entanglement of the human and more-than-/non-human can best be accounted for phenomenologically. Such a phenomenological approach promises new ways of understanding various phenomena such as landscape, weather or climate.

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Entangled phenomenologies: Reassessing (post-)phenomenology’s promise for human geography

Progress in Human Geography

2021

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“…As "weather changes we do not see different things, but we do see the same things differently. [...] Strictly speaking, the weather is not what we have a perception of ; it is rather what we perceive in" (Ingold 2005, 102; see also Hepach 2018). Weather then underlines a deeper phenomenological insight, namely that experience is always already the result of a certain sensing or mediation between subject and object.…”

Section: Weatheringmentioning

confidence: 99%

Sensing weather and climate: Phenomenological and ethnographic approaches

Environment and Planning F

Lüder

2023

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In light of the increasing tendency to view extreme weather events as experiences of climate change, we revisit how weather and climate are measured and experienced, contributing to an ongoing dialogue on the atmospheric between phenomenology, media studies and geography. We make use of and complicate the concept of sensing to make sense of the heterogeneous modes of experiencing and measuring weather. First, we detail the history and phenomenology of weather between experience and measurement. Providing evidence for our theoretical account, we go through two ethnographic examples of weather-sensing, looking at the work of meteorologists and a weather-machine. From weather-sensing, we extrapolate the possibility of climate-sensing to aid in the comprehension of climate change. Sensing, we conclude, promises to reconnect weather and climate, the measured and experienced, the proximate and remote, the bodily and abstract.

What is lost from climate change? Phenomenology at the “limits to adaptation”

Hartz

2023

Geogr. Helv.

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Abstract. Defining experiences of climate change loss and damage (L&D) is the topic of contentious debate across the social sciences and humanities. In this paper, we contribute to this debate by making loss(es) from climate change better legible. After detailing the complexity of the L&D debate from both a political and scientific perspective, we turn to phenomenological theory (Martin Heidegger, Tetsuro Watsuji, Bernhard Waldenfels) in order to make sense of climate's presence and the absences generated from changing climates. The phenomenology of loss we develop promises to help account for experiences of climate change that escape more traditional (social) scientific approaches to both economic and non-economic losses. More broadly, we present an alternative approach to applying phenomenology to research in social science (on climate change).