Jennifer Gabrys
Citizens of Worlds: Open-Air Toolkits for Environmental Struggle
Citizens of Worlds: Open-Air Toolkits for Environmental Struggle
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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.
Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 360 pages
Publication date: 22 November 2022
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Modern environments are plagued with a multitude of pollutants, ranging from toxic gases and increasing carbon levels to carcinogenic particles and novel viruses. These harmful effects pose significant risks to both human health and the well-being of our planet. Citizens of Worlds is the first comprehensive exploration of the growing adoption of digital technologies to monitor and address air pollution. Through practice-based research, it delves into the collaborative efforts of communities and the development of sensor toolkits to detect pollution. Additionally, it examines the political subjects, relationships, and worlds these technologies generate.
Drawing on data from the Citizen Sense research group, which collaborated with communities in the United States and the United Kingdom to create digital-sensor toolkits, Jennifer Gabrys argues that citizen-oriented technologies hold the potential for positive change but often clash with entrenched and unequal power structures. She raises important questions such as who or what defines a "citizen" in citizen sensing and how digital sensing technologies enable or restrict environmental citizenship.
Spanning three project areas, this study provides detailed descriptions of collaborations aimed at monitoring air pollution from fracking infrastructure, documenting emissions in urban environments, and creating air-quality gardens. These projects showcase how individuals respond to, care for, and struggle to transform environmental conditions, shaping the political subjects and collectives they become as they strive for more breathable worlds.
Weight: 680g
Dimension: 254 x 178 x 25 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781517914059
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