Weathering Saharan dust beyond the Spanish Mediterranean Basin
An interdisciplinary dialogue
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4476832 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lucy Sabin (0000-0001-9682-196X, University College London, UK, corresponding author), Jorge Olcina Cantos (0000-0002-4846-8126, University of Alicante) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 1036-1057 |
| Publication date | 2023-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environment and Planning D Society and Space (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0263-7758 • E-ISSN: 1472-3433 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/02637758231217789 |
| OpenAlex | W4389626633 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 86 |
This interdisciplinary dialogue draws on climatology and cultural studies to explore the phenomenon of "Saharan dust" that passes through and beyond the Spanish Mediterranean Basin. The dialogic process seeks to unearth the power relations within which weather stories and the authors are always already entangled, with a view to re-imagining weather writing and climatic storytelling in decolonial terms. Our parallel inquiries trace how origin stories, material mobilities, atmospheres, and environmental regulation work to codify the aeolian dust as an intrusion across borders. Drawing on critical theory, we argue that this weather "from" the Sahara Desert is othered in Eurocentric weather narratives, mapping onto geopolitical logic of "Fortress Europe". Our research is instructed by postcolonial thought, political ecology, and the speculative feminist position of weathering. Through critical engagement with science in context, we dwell lastly on African air quality and experiences of weathering atmospheric dust further upwind. Our concluding comments speculatively drift with Mediterranean winds to animate a positionality of middleness
Archaeology · Art · Context (archaeology · Dialogic · Earth science · Geomorphology · Literature · Narrative · Sociology · Storytelling · Weathering · Climate Change and Health Impacts · Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration · Geographies of human-animal interactions · History · Geology
A Geology of Media
How to Make Art at the End of the World
The varieties of religious experience
Powers of Horror
Apollo's Eye
The Arid Lands
In the Wake
Anthropocene Islands
Material Politics
A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None
On reading ‘The weather’
Black as Drought
Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor
Climate and history
More than a metaphor
Where the dust settles
For granular geography
Anthropocene islands
Contributions and perspectives from geography to the study of climate
Climate and colonialism
Climatic Media
Cultural climatology and the representation of sky, atmosphere, weather and climate in selected art works of Constable, Monet and Eliasson
Territory beyond terra
Weathering
One or several granular geographies
Making Sense of the Weather
Open-weather
The politics of the anthropocene
Climate and its changes
Letting Geography Fall Where it May - Aerographies Address the Elemental
Border and im/mobility entanglements in the Mediterranean
Atmospheric Attunements
What the Sands Remember
Radiant Matter
Placing Outer Space
Situated Knowledges
Interscalar Vehicles for an African Anthropocene
Condition-Suspension
Dust
Footprints through the weather-world
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |