Imagining Air

Cultural Axiology and the Politics of Invisibility

Buch | Softcover

258 Seiten

2023
University of Exeter Press (Verlag)
978-1-80413-118-3 (ISBN)

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This book takes a comprehensive approach to new ways of thinking about air and its ways of relating to the world, through society, place, objects, environments, and technologies. It seeks to represent the broad spectrum of air and the politics of invisibility that reflect the complex and often conflicted nature of lives today.

Imagining Air tackles air as a cultural, medical, and environmental phenomenon. Its major aim is to explore air’s visibility and invisibility within the environment through the investigation of such phenomena as pollution and pandemics.

The book provides environmental and medical perspectives on air, in particular how it has historically been envisioned in U.S., Canadian and British cultural and literary narratives. The authors explore how these representations and the constructed meanings of air can help us understand the complex nature of air as it pertains to the COVID-19 pandemic, air pollution and broader environmental degradation.

Chapter authors: Siobhan Carroll, Jeff Diamanti, Corey Dzenko, Clare Hickman, Tatiana Konrad, Jayne Lewis, Chantelle Mitchell, Christian Riegel, Arthur Rose, Gordon M. Sayre, Savannah Schaufler.

Tatiana Konrad is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of English and American Studies, University of Vienna, Austria, the principal investigator of “Air and Environmental Health in the (Post-)COVID-19 World,” and the editor of the “Environment, Health, and Well-being” book series at Michigan State University Press. She holds a PhD in American Studies from the University of Marburg, Germany. She was a Visiting Fellow at the University of Chicago (2022), a Visiting Researcher at the Forest History Society (2019), an Ebeling Fellow at the American Antiquarian Society (2018), and a Visiting Scholar at the University of South Alabama (2016). She is the author of Docu-Fictions of War: U.S. Interventionism in Film and Literature (2019), the editor of Plastics, Environment, Culture and the Politics of Waste (2023), Cold War II: Hollywood’s Renewed Obsession with Russia (2020), and Transportation and the Culture of Climate Change: Accelerating Ride to Global Crisis (2020), and a co-editor of Cultures of War in Graphic Novels: Violence, Trauma, and Memory (2018).

Information on Contributors

Introduction: Toward a Cultural Axiology of Air TATIANA KONRAD, CHANTELLE MITCHELL, and SAVANNAH SCHAUFLER

DOI: 10.47788/HWDT3673

Part I: Aerial Politics—Pollution, Consumerism, and Catastrophe

1. Fordism in Detroit, Consumerism in Los Angeles: A Brief History of Automobile Emissions Regulation and Lessons for Greenhouse Gas Pollution GORDON M. SAYRE

DOI: 10.47788/TCVP5497

2. Dirty Air: Literary Tropes of the Canadian Nation CHRISTIAN RIEGEL

DOI: 10.47788/FRQU2721

3. Witnessing Challenger: Viewing Aerial Space through the Reverberations of Disaster CHANTELLE MITCHELL

DOI: 10.47788/OTME3403

Part II: Air and Art in Times of Crisis

4. Speculative Fiction, Atmotechnic Ecology, and the Afterlife of Romantic Air SIOBHAN CARROLL

DOI: 10.47788/ZJTA2307

5. Respiratory Realism: Elemental Intimacies Between “Carbon Black” and Red Desert JEFF DIAMANTI

DOI: 10.47788/BRTE9492

6. Rumpled Bedsheets and Online Mourning: Social Photography and the COVID-19 Pandemic—Haruka Sakaguchi’s Quarantine Diary and Marvin Heiferman’s Instagram account @whywelook COREY DZENKO

DOI: 10.47788/CLTU3625

Part III: Trans-Sensory Air: Bodies and Environments

7. Envisioning Experiments on Air and the Nonhuman ARTHUR ROSE

DOI: 10.47788/HVZM1065

8. The Importance of Open Air for Health: Environmental and Medical Intersections CLARE HICKMAN

DOI: 10.47788/ERNO3036

9. “The Endless Space of Air”: Helen Keller’s Auratic Worldbuilding JAYNE LEWIS

DOI: 10.47788/HHPU4766

10. Questions of Visibility: Aerial Relations across Society and the Environment, as Revealed by COVID-19 SAVANNAH SCHAUFLER

DOI: 10.47788/WSKQ2452

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Erscheinungsdatum	31.10.2023
Zusatzinfo	Colour illustrations
Verlagsort	Exeter
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	428 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Prävention / Gesundheitsförderung
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
ISBN-10	1-80413-118-0 / 1804131180
ISBN-13	978-1-80413-118-3 / 9781804131183
Zustand	Neuware