• 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