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Imagining Air tackles air as a cultural, medical, and environmental
phenomenon. Its major aim is to explore air’s visibility and
invisibility within the environment through the investigation of
such phenomena as pollution and pandemics. The book provides
environmental and medical perspectives on air, in particular how it
has historically been envisioned in U.S., Canadian and British
cultural and literary narratives. The authors explore how these
representations and the constructed meanings of air can help us
understand the complex nature of air as it pertains 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.
Imagining Air tackles air as a cultural, medical, and environmental
phenomenon. Its major aim is to explore air’s visibility and
invisibility within the environment through the investigation of
such phenomena as pollution and pandemics. The book provides
environmental and medical perspectives on air, in particular how it
has historically been envisioned in U.S., Canadian and British
cultural and literary narratives. The authors explore how these
representations and the constructed meanings of air can help us
understand the complex nature of air as it pertains 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.
Plastics, Environment, Culture and the Politics of Waste examines
plastic as a distinct cultural, political, and environmental
phenomenon. It outlines the intricate relationship with plastic
that humanity has been building over the course of the twentieth
and twenty-first centuries, drawing on examples from history, the
arts, and literature, as well as examining the place of plastics in
the current health, environmental, and energy crises. The aim of
this book is to reveal the complex nature of plastics, from their
rapid incorporation into our advancing ways of life, to the
reenvisioning of plastics' role in human life and how, through
abundant production, consumption, and disposal of plastics,
humanity has initiated a toxic invasion of natural environments and
human and nonhuman bodies. Bringing together various perspectives
from the humanities, this edited collection contributes to the
ongoing research on plastics and petrocultures and emphasizes the
crucial significance of addressing the plastic crisis through
culture.
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