In How to Weather Together, Astrida Neimanis and Jennifer Mae Hamilton develop an innovative model for climate change mitigation and adaptation that brings together climate justice and community engagement. Translating feminist theory into practice, they demonstrate how we can gradually change the world as the world changes us.
Drawing on a rich and varied history of feminist, queer and anticolonial scholarship, Neimanis and Hamilton propose 'weathering' as both a theoretical framework and a set of practical tools for responding to environmental catastrophe. They ask how we can reckon with existential crisis through playful, low-tech practice by connecting the planetary to the personal. With photographs and a series of illustrated weathering activities throughout, the book turns academic concepts into practical, hands-on guidance for community groups, artists, students, researchers, and others. It shows how climate adaptation requires building better social infrastructures for our shared but different worlds.
Drawing on a rich and varied history of feminist, queer and anticolonial scholarship, the authors propose ‘weathering’ as both a theoretical framework and a set of practical tools for responding to environmental catastrophe. Connecting the planetary to the personal, it asks how we can reckon with existential crisis through playful, low-tech practice.
With photographs and a series of illustrated weathering activities throughout, this book unpacks key concepts and theories related to climate change (e.g. feminism, weather, weathering, infrastructure), and translates them into practical, hands-on guidance for community groups, artists, students, researchers, and others. In a quest for the redistribution of shelter and vulnerability as an ethical anchor point, How to Weather Together argues that feminist climate adaptation work needs to be broad, holistic and inclusive, while holding the line against fascism, capitalism, and colonialism. This requires building community-scaled social infrastructures for our shared but different worlds.