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http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/28679| Title: | Politicizing air: On the political effects of spatial imagination |
| Authors: | Kenis, A Lievens, M |
| Issue Date: | 1-Apr-2021 |
| Publisher: | transcript Verlag |
| Citation: | Kenis, A. and Lievens, M.. (2021) 'Politicizing air: On the political effects of spatial imagination', in Landau, F., Pohl, L. and Roskamm, N. (eds.) [Un]Grounding: Post-Foundational Geographies. Bielefeld: Transcript, pp. 261 - 278. doi: 10.14361/9783839450734-013. |
| Abstract: | Air is invisible, though it has very real effects on our health and on the natural and built environment. Air is intangible, but that does not mean it is immaterial. Air’s components and pollutants are situated on the microscale, though effects can be observed on a macroscale. Air (and its pollution) are both natural and human-made. Air is hybrid, but its hybridity does not speak to us immediately. Air is untouchable though we are touched by it all the time. Air is often forgotten in social or academic discourse (Buzzelli 2008; Heynen 2013), though we cannot live for longer than... |
| URI: | https://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/28679 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839450734-013 |
| ISBN: | 978-3-8376-5073-0 (ebk) |
| Other Identifiers: | ORCiD: Anneleen Kenis https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6106-6340 13 |
| Appears in Collections: | Dept of Social and Political Sciences Research Papers |
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