Violent atmospheres: Political ecologies of livelihoods and crises in Southeast Asia

Abstract

Violent atmospheres are volatile mixes of socio-political and economic processes as well as biophysical ruptures that encompass surficial and gaseous matter across scales. Frequently driven by political-economic crisis, violent atmospheres are increasingly anthropogenically constructed and affectively experienced. While scholars have examined how the exploitation of resources in intensifying capitalist political economies produce violent terrestrial environments, very few have addressed the volumetric characteristics through which atmospheres—as both meteorological and affective entities—become violent. Integrating emerging work on resource political ecologies with the volumetric turn in the..