Making Sense of Weather: Dwelling and Weathering on Canada's Rain Coast
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2012
Abstract
Drawing on ethnographic data collected throughout British Columbia’s coastal regions, in this article, the authors examine people’s experiences of ordinary weather. Data show how people experience weather multisensorially and how the weather plays a central role in the way individuals and collectives define sense of place. Experiences of weather, the authors argue, are a reflexive and active form of dwelling. A focus on skillful embodied practices and dwelling highlights how weathering is a process through which people make and remake places and shape their sense of self. The authors conceptualize the practice of weathering as a form of somatic work and explain how through somatic work places and weather emerge within a performative ecology of movements.
Department
Sociology and Corrections
Publication Title
Space and Culture
Recommended Citation
Phillip Vannini, Dennis Waskul, Simon Gottschalk and Toby Ellis-Newstead. 2012. "Making Sense of Weather: Dwelling and Weathering on Canada's Rain Coast." Space and Culture. 15 (4): 361-380.
DOI
10.1177/1206331211412269
Link to Publisher Version (DOI)
Publisher's Copyright and Source
Copyright © 2012 SAGE Publications. Article published by SAGE Publications in Space and Culture, volume 15, issue number 4, 2012, pages 361-380. Available online on September 30, 2011:
https://doi.org/10.1177/1206331211412269
