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Understood as a physical threat to human and non-human health, pollution attracts considerable attention in the form of management regimes, public controversy and technical discourses of risk. Within the academy, there is an associated focus on pollution in fields such as economics, engineering, medicine and biology. Pollution nonetheless fits poorly with the academic division of labour into natural sciences, social sciences and humanities. As the illegitimate offspring of technological systems, pollution appears to be the antithesis of ecological order and social order. The category of pollution threatens to pollute modern disciplines of knowledge by seeming to originate from neither the realm of nature nor the realm of culture. This category has, not surprisingly, been subject to stringent intellectual management.In the introduction to this book, the editors observe that urban pollution, in particular, has been constituted as an object of technocratic analysis. In this frame of reference, pollution is objectively -that is, purely -impure materiality. This is not to say that technocratic colonisation of urban pollution is total. This book, after all, takes its cue from Mary Dougla

Author

Aidan Davison

Publisher

Berghahn Books

Published

2022

Language

EN