Full Description
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. How differences in air, atmosphere, and the body at the scales of neighbourhoods, 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.
Contents
An Introduction Nasima Selim and Judith Albrecht Part I. Breathing as an Ethnographic Register and Empirical Matter 1 Breathing in and out of Court as a Spirometric Moment: Tracking Epistemic Violence through Ethnographic Respiration Judith Albrecht 2 "I wanna breathe like you, these streets are mine too": The Colonial-Capitalist Breathing Heritage of Everyday Life in Southeast London Franca Marquardt 3 "It is becoming difficult to breathe in there": Queer-Trans-Feminist Encounters with Breath/ing in a University Campus of India Uddipta Roy Part II. Post/COVID-19 and Breathing Troubles 4 Air Hunger: Viral Atmospheres and the Siege of Breath Malini Sur 5 "Tuachiwe Tupumuwe!" (Let us breathe): Decolonizing COVID-19, Suffocating Sovereignty, and Rest-less Respiration in Tanzania, Zanzibar Franziska Fay 6 The Politics of Breathing Troubles in COVID-19: Pandemic Inequalities and the Right to Breathe across India and Germany Nasima Selim Part III. Aesthetics and Poetics of Air and Breath 7 Sour Wind Megan J. Gette 8 Aria to APNEA: The Airs of Doing in Opera Maribeth Diggle 9 Breathing in the Web(s) of Life: Tomás Saraceno on the Practices and Poetics of Aerocene Viola Castellano Part IV. Aerial, Atmospheric, and Respiratory Politics 10 Breath as Grammar: The Politics and Poetics of Breath and Black Experience Melody Howse 11 Burning Lungs: The Atmopolitics of Wildfires in Indigenous Canada Marijn Nieuwenhuis I N H A L E: A commentary Sana Chavoshian
