Title of article
Culture, nature and particulate matter – Hybrid reframings in air pollution scholarship
Author/Authors
Cupples، نويسنده , , Julie، نويسنده ,
Issue Information
روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2009
Pages
11
From page
207
To page
217
Abstract
Air pollution is a thoroughly hybrid phenomenon. It is composed of inseparable physical, scientific, cultural, social, economic and political dimensions. It is both an object of environmental science and embedded in our everyday social and cultural worlds. Nevertheless, much air pollution scholarship focuses solely on the physical dimensions of air pollution which are expressed quantitatively and pays little or no regard to the identities, discourses, bodies and emotions which constitute and are constituted by air pollution as a physical reality. This article argues for a more reflexive and hybrid approach to air pollution research which bridges intellectually confining binaries. Drawing on the work of Bruno Latour and other actor–network theorists, it argues that if we can let go of a foundational nature, disrupt our humanism and take non-scientific knowledges seriously, we might develop a new respect for the atmospheric environment and begin the task of building a better common world.
Keywords
air pollution , CULTURE , Actor-network theory , Latour , SCIENCE , NATURE
Journal title
Atmospheric Environment
Serial Year
2009
Journal title
Atmospheric Environment
Record number
2234347
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