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
Link To Document :
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