- Title
- Weathering colonisation
- Creator
- Wright, Sarah; Daley, Lara; Curtis, Faith
- Relation
- Weather: Spaces, Mobilities and Affects p. 207-221
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780367808198
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2020
- Description
- In this chapter, we engage weather, and the ways diverse knowledges of and about weather have been active in both promulgating and resisting ongoing colonialism in Australia. Indeed, it is not only knowledges of weather, but weather-cultures, diverse cosmologies, and the beings and co-becomings of weather as active agents that work to make and unmake colonialism and support the survivance of plural, nourishing life-worlds within which sun, mist, seasons and other complex weatherings co-constitute people, place and time/s. Agencies of weather are fundamental in shaping who and what belongs to/with/as nations, both Aboriginal nations-as-Country and the settler colonial state of Australia, even as they help to constitute what these nations are and what they mean. In this chapter, we consider archival material to attend to ways that weather can become enrolled in political projects of (re)possession, ordering and control of people, place and time/s, yet can also be an active agent of resistance to this. We do this by considering the political debates surrounding the process of choosing a site for the capital of Australia at the time of federation (1901). Throughout the chapter we aim to be led by Indigenous epistemologies and ontologies that have engaged the beings, co-becomings and agencies of weather for millennia.
- Subject
- weather; settler colonialism; Indigenous peoples; Country
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1464073
- Identifier
- uon:46908
- Identifier
- ISBN:9780367406394
- Language
- eng
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