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Attuning to ambiguous atmospheres: Currents of air, discourse and time in a steel town
Erin Roberts 
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Chris Groves ,
Gareth Thomas ,
Fiona Shirani ,
Catherine Cherry ,
Nick Pidgeon ,
Karen Henwood
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Chris Groves ,
Gareth Thomas ,
Fiona Shirani ,
Catherine Cherry ,
Nick Pidgeon ,
Karen Henwood
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers
Swansea University Author:
Chris Groves
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DOI (Published version): 10.1111/tran.12631
Abstract
How atmospheric pollution is perceived by urban dwellers has long been a topic of interest within geography and the social sciences, whether to draw attention to environmental injustices, to better understand the materialities and affects associated with polluted air, or to grasp how people ‘tune in...
| Published in: | Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers |
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| ISSN: | 0020-2754 1475-5661 |
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Wiley
2023
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| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa66347 |
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How atmospheric pollution is perceived by urban dwellers has long been a topic of interest within geography and the social sciences, whether to draw attention to environmental injustices, to better understand the materialities and affects associated with polluted air, or to grasp how people ‘tune in’ to polluted matter. In this paper, we draw on three interrelated geographical and social science literatures on polluted air to inform our exploration of how residents of an industrial town in the UK encounter and perceive localised ambient air pollution. Using creative methods, we explore residents' narrative accounts of everyday life in the town, revealing how their engagements with the matter of pollution over time are drawn from multiple registers, giving rise to a plurality of perceptions filled with tensions between near and far, and between past, present and future, producing an ambiguous atmosphere all of its own. The paper contributes to geographic explorations of urban atmospheres an understanding of how they are differently experienced and known, and how residential perceptions might persist or change over different timescales. |
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| Keywords: |
air pollution, air quality, ambiguity, atmosphere, atmospheric attunements, attunement |
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Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences |
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FLEXIS is part funded by the European Regional Development Fund and wishes to acknowledge the support provided bythe Welsh European Funding Office (WEFO). |