The Weather Report: A Journey Through Unsettled Climates
Andrew Ross, with Ashley Dawson and Jaskiran Dhillion
A Brooklyn Book Festival Bookend Event
From acclaimed public scholar Andrew Ross, groundbreaking reporting on climate change and the horizons of a just future from Palestine, UAE, Arizona, and China.
We are pleased to celebrate the publication of Andrew Ross’s newest book, The Weather Report, on Sunday, September 14th. Andrew will be joined by Ashley Dawson and Jaskiran Dhillion for a wide-ranging conversation that seeks to reveal the mutual aid projects seeking to provide care in the faces of climate crisis.
Between the summers of 2023 and 2024, temperatures rose, coastal areas flooded, and droughts and fires raged inland. Unprecedented tornadoes, hurricanes, and typhoons of astonishing force revealed the disturbances roiling the air and the oceans. More species than ever before disappeared from the planet in what scientists are calling Earth’s Sixth Great Extinction. Reports from the front lines of the climate crisis have always been grim, but this past year was worse than any other, measurably more catastrophic in more ways for more animals and more people.
In his travels during this tumultuous year, public intellectual and noted scholar Andrew Ross criss-crossed the world, visiting Ramallah (Palestine), Dubai (UAE), Phoenix (USA), and Shanghai (China)—some of the landscapes most disturbed by human activity, whether through active warfare or massive development projects. But rather than offering another eco-polemic or recalling for us the dread prognostications of Malthus in the 19th century or Ehrlich in the 20th, The Weather Report is a clear-eyed and essentially optimistic book that proposes a pragmatic, just, and urgent new common ground reestablishing scalable projects of mutual aid and care as a new, essential center for our economic, ecological, and social well-being.
Andrew Ross is a social activist and professor at NYU, where he teaches in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis and the Prison Education Program. A contributor to the Guardian, the New York Times, The Nation, and Al Jazeera, he is the author or editor of twenty-five books.
Ashley Dawson is Professor of Postcolonial Studies in the English Department at the Graduate Center, the City University of New York and the College of Staten Island. His latest books include People’s Power: Reclaiming the Energy Commons, Extreme Cities: The Peril and Promise of Urban Life in the Age of Climate Change, and Extinction: A Radical History.
Jaskiran Dhillon is a first-generation anticolonial scholar and organizer born in Treaty Six Cree Territory in Saskatchewan, Canada. She is associate professor of global studies and anthropology at The New School in New York City and author of Prairie Rising: Indigenous Youth, Decolonization, and the Politics of Intervention and the coeditor of Standing with Standing Rock: Voices from the #NoDAPL Movement.
