Ways Of Breathing And Knowing The Politics And Poetics Of Air Atmosphere And The Body

This book studies the multiple ways of breathing (in) and knowing (of) contemporary lifeworlds. It offers a collection of ethnographic and interdisciplinary essays articulating the politics and poetics of air atmosphere and the body across diverse geographical locations historical moments and theoretical approaches. The book argues that air atmosphere and the body are relational entities shaping and shaped by the very act of breathing. It shows how differences in air atmosphere and the body at the scales of neighborhoods regions nation-states and the planet co-constitute breathing inequalities and respiratory conditions of possibilities in suffocating times. As part of the Routledge Critical Perspectives on Breath and Breathing series Ways of Breathing and Knowing will be an indispensable critical pedagogical companion for students and researchers of anthropology gender studies political sciences science and technology studies psychology environmental studies human geography and philosophy. It will also be of interest to activists artists curators and cultural and environmental institutions. |Ways of Breathing and Knowing The Politics and Poetics of Air Atmosphere and the Body