With air pollution now intimately affecting every resident of
Ulaanbaatar, the capital of Mongolia, Saskia Abrahms-Kavunenko
seeks to understand how, as a physical constant throughout the
winter months, the murky and obscuring nature of air pollution has
become an active part of Mongolian religious and ritual life.
Enlightenment and the Gasping City identifies air pollution as a
boundary between the physical and the immaterial, showing how air
pollution impresses itself on the urban environment as stagnation
and blur. She explores how air pollution and related phenomena
exist in dynamic tension with Buddhist ideas and practices
concerning purification, revitalisation and enlightenment. By
focusing on light, its intersections and its oppositions, she
illuminates Buddhist practices and beliefs as they interact with
the pressing urban issues of air pollution, post-socialist economic
vacillations, urban development, nationalism, and climate change.
General
| Imprint: |
Cornell University Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
June 2019 |
| First published: |
2019 |
| Authors: |
Saskia Abrahms-Kavunenko
|
| Dimensions: |
229 x 152mm (L x W) |
| Format: |
Paperback - Trade
|
| Pages: |
252 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-5017-3765-7 |
| Categories: |
Books
|
| LSN: |
1-5017-3765-1 |
| Barcode: |
9781501737657 |
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