Publikation: Talking about the Weather : Producing Climate Knowledge as Colonial Practice in Intentional Communities in the Americas, 1820s–1840s
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This article explores the production and dissemination of climate knowl-edge in intentional communities in the Americas between the 1820s and the 1840s.It views climate knowledge as a prerequisite for social and scientific experimentswithin settlement spaces. Through three case studies, I investigate how settlementscollected climate data, utilized it to select locations, determined which crops weresuitable for cultivation, and attracted prospective settlers: the religious and cooper-ative settlement of New Harmony, Indiana, the German ethnic colony of Saxon-burg, Pennsylvania, and the unsuccessful scheme by German American engineersJohn Adolphus Etzler and Conrad Friedrich Stollmeyer to run a machine-based co-operative settlement in Venezuela. I view all these settlement schemes as experi-ments in pursuing a new order of society. In these experimental spaces, practicesof observing and experimenting with regard to social and natural phenomena con-verged. Settlers created refined climate knowledge by collecting raw data onweather phenomena, seeking information through their own ethnic networks, andrelying on book knowledge and travel accounts by previous colonizers. Throughtheir newspapers, they disseminated ideas regarding the tropics as a favorablespace for agricultural and mechanical experiments. They generalized with regardto regional climates, marginalized local knowledge, and contributed to discoursesof tropicality. However, these communities ultimately failed as the settlers arrivedunprepared for the heat and humidity. This article demonstrates that talking aboutthe weather, collecting climate data, and writing about these events proliferated acolonial mindset and contributed to settler colonialism, even when practiced bygroups standing outside of formal empires.
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ROESCH, Claudia, 2024. Talking about the Weather : Producing Climate Knowledge as Colonial Practice in Intentional Communities in the Americas, 1820s–1840s. In: LERG, Charlotte A., Hrsg., Johan ÖSTLING, Hrsg., Jana WEISS, Hrsg. und andere. History of Intellectual Culture 3/2024 : Experimental Spaces : Knowledge Production and its Environments in the Long Nineteenth Century. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2024, S. 137-158. History of Intellectual Culture. 3. ISBN 978-3-11-129090-4. Verfügbar unter: doi: 10.1515/9783111291383-007BibTex
@incollection{Roesch2024-10-07Talki-71831, year={2024}, doi={10.1515/9783111291383-007}, title={Talking about the Weather : Producing Climate Knowledge as Colonial Practice in Intentional Communities in the Americas, 1820s–1840s}, number={3}, isbn={978-3-11-129090-4}, publisher={De Gruyter}, address={Berlin, Boston}, series={History of Intellectual Culture}, booktitle={History of Intellectual Culture 3/2024 : Experimental Spaces : Knowledge Production and its Environments in the Long Nineteenth Century}, pages={137--158}, editor={Lerg, Charlotte A. and Östling, Johan and Weiß, Jana}, author={Roesch, Claudia} }
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