An infrastructural politics for climate change adaptation,via weather: Interview by Enrico Campo with Jennifer Mae Hamilton and Astrida Neimanis

Abstract

Jennifer Hamilton (Senior Lecturer in English Literary Studies), and Astrida Neimanis (Canada Research Chair in Feminist Environmental Humanities) are environmental feminist scholars who explore the relationship between weather, climate change, and infrastructure. They co-authored How to Weather Together: Feminist Practice for Climate Change (Bloomsbury Academic, forthcoming 2026), which includes a chapter on infrastructure. Together with artist and writer Tessa Zettel, are part of the Weathering Collective (https://weatheringstation.net/), a project that experiments with collaborative practices between theoretical and critical research and artistic practice. With Zettel, they co-authored ‘Feminist Infrastructure for Better Weathering’ for Australian Feminist Studies. This interview explores the concept of ‘weathering’ and how and why they argue for an urgent need to think critically about adaptation in relation to infrastructure in order to address the challenge of climate change.