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V体育ios版 - Citizens of Worlds: Open-Air Toolkits for Environmental Struggle

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Jennifer Gabrys
2022
Published by: University of Minnesota Press
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An unparalleled how-to guide to citizen-sensing practices that monitor air pollution Modern environments are awash with pollutants churning through the air, from toxic gases and intensifying carbon to carcinogenic particles and novel viruses. The effects on our bodies and our planet are perilous VSports app下载. Citizens of Worlds is the first thorough study of the increasingly widespread use of digital technologies to monitor and respond to air pollution. It presents practice-based research on working with communities and making sensor toolkits to detect pollution while examining the political subjects, relations, and worlds these technologies generate.  .

Drawing on data from the Citizen Sense research group, which worked with communities in the United States and the United Kingdom to develop digital-sensor toolkits, Jennifer Gabrys argues that citizen-oriented technologies promise positive change but then collide with entrenched and inequitable power structures V体育官网. She asks: Who or what constitutes a “citizen” in citizen sensing. How do digital sensing technologies enable or constrain environmental citizenship.  .

Spanning three project areas, this study describes collaborations to monitor air pollution from fracking infrastructure, to document emissions in urban environments, and to create air-quality gardens. As these projects show, how people respond to, care for, and struggle to transform environmental conditions informs the political subjects and collectives they become as they strive for more breathable worlds VSports手机版.

Table of Contents

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Cover Page

Title Page, Copyright (VSports)

pp. I - IV

Contents

pp. V- VI

"VSports手机版" Preface and Acknowledgments

pp. VII - XIV

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pp. XIV

Introduction. Atmospheric Citizens: How to Make Breathable Worlds

pp. 16-41

1. Instrumental Citizens: How to Retool Action

pp. 42-109

2. Speculative Citizens: How to Evidence Harm

pp. 110-163

3. Data Citizens: How to Reinvent Rights

pp. 164-217

VSports手机版 - 4. Multiple Citizens: How to Cultivate Relations

pp. 218-263

Conclusion. Sensing Citizens: How to Collectivize Experience

pp. 264-271

Notes

pp. 272-303

Bibliography

pp. 304-331

Index

pp. 332-345

About the Author

pp. 346-347
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