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Paper short abstract

This introduction sets out the panel's approach to winds and airs, exploring how attending to atmospheric elements - turbulence, dust, weather - shapes both our research practices and the stories the panel's papers tell.

Paper long abstract

This introduction opens the panel by reflecting on how winds and airs have shaped our own research practices and positionality. Rather than researching wind as an object of study from the outside, we work with and within it, attending to the contingency, openness and porosity that windy and atmospheric conditions demand of ethnographic and creative methods alike. We ground this approach in examples from our own fieldwork which set the tone for the panel's thematic structure. Organised across two sessions, the papers approach winds and airs through different modalities and elemental appearances: turbulence, dust, atmosphere and more. Across these papers, we ask: how do different methods and media attend to wind? What forms - ethnographic, artistic, scientific - are used to tell stories of wind and what stories do winds themselves tell?