Imagining Air: Cultural Axiology and the Politics of Invisibility

Imagining Air explores air as a cultural, medical, and environmental phenomenon, investigating its visibility and invisibility through pollution and pandemics. It provides environmental and medical perspectives on air, revealing how it has been envisioned in cultural and literary narratives.

Format: Unspecified
Length: 258 pages
Publication date: 14 November 2023
Publisher: University of Exeter Press

Imagining Air delves into the multifaceted realm of air, encompassing its cultural, medical, and environmental aspects. Its primary objective is to investigate the enigmatic nature of air's visibility and invisibility within the environment, shedding light on phenomena such as pollution and pandemics.

The book offers insightful environmental and medical perspectives on air, particularly focusing on how it has been conceptualized in the cultural and literary narratives of the United States, Canada, and Britain. The authors embark on a captivating exploration, unraveling the constructed meanings of air and how these representations can aid in comprehending the intricate dynamics of air in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic, air pollution, and broader environmental degradation.

Chapter authors:

Siobhan Carroll
Jeff Diamanti
Corey Dzenko
Clare Hickman
Tatiana Konrad
Jayne Lewis
Chantelle Mitchell
Christian Riegel
Arthur Rose
Gordon M. Sayre
Savannah Schaufler

Weight: 564g
Dimension: 164 x 243 x 24 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781804131176