Geographies of the seasons

Seasonal qualities are found in everyday practices, as social and cultural customs move in and out of sync with environmental cues. Yet notions of seasonality cannot be decoupled from colonial power, capitalistic logics, and the lineage of Western sciences that long disregarded a wealth of place-based knowledges. At the same time, increasingly unseasonable events strain the assumptions of a stable climate and dependable seasonal rhythms, as planetary systems continue to falter. An assumed presence of the seasons has surfaced in geographical explorations of weather. On the other hand, there are omissions of how seasonality is felt and negotiation by those on the margins, especially beyond the meteorological context. The article traces a burgeoning geography of the seasons, which runs through social, political, ecological, and more-than-human concerns.