Publication: L.A. Review of Books

UCLA Expert: Bharat Venkat: Assistant Professor, UCLA Institute for Society & Genetics; Assistant Professor, Department of History; Director, UCLA Heat Lab

Synopsis: UCLA’s Venkat used literature to connect unseasonable warmth (weather out of place, or out of its proper time) to human behavior. 

UCLA News: “Misfit weather heightens this potential for disorder, for dangerous transgressions, dangerous not just for the individual but for a racialized social order produced in relationship to the regularity of climate,” Venkat wrote.

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