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Record Nr.

UNINA9910799601203321

Autore

Gabrys Jennifer

Titolo

Citizens of worlds : open-air toolkits for environmental struggle / / Jennifer Gabrys

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis ; ; London : , : University of Minnesota Press, , [2022]

©2022

ISBN

1-4529-6799-7

1-4529-6798-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (347 pages)

Disciplina

363.7392

Soggetti

Air quality management - Citizen participation

Air quality monitoring stations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Atmospheric Citizens: How to Make Breathable Worlds -- 1. Instrumental Citizens: How to Retool Action -- 2. Speculative Citizens: How to Evidence Harm -- 3. Data Citizens: How to Reinvent Rights -- 4. Multiple Citizens: How to Cultivate Relations -- Conclusion. Sensing Citizens: How to Collectivize Experience -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.

Sommario/riassunto

"Citizens of Worlds is the first thorough study of the increasingly widespread use of digital technologies to monitor and respond to air pollution. Drawing on data from the Citizen Sense research group, Jennifer Gabrys 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"--