Indefinite Urbanism: Airport Noise and Atmospheric Encounters in Los Angeles

Peterson, Marina

doi:10.1353/pmc.2019.0004

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“…Based on this assumption, Peterson (2021: 115) writes: "sound as pressure does not presume an ear as the organ of sensory perception but it expands to an auditory beyond the ear." Pressure on the skin may be felt not only at the surface but also at deeper levels; it can add a haptic dimension, as Peterson (2021) argues. More significantly, pressure affect bodies, it touches us; it can generate an emotional response, as I attempted to show with the example of Manuel's tattoo when he inscribes on his body what he cannot keep close to him.…”

Section: Concluding Remarks: Pressure Wavesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Under pressure: Catching the pulse of a Cuban crisis

Boudreault‐Fournier

2023

Environ Plan D

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Pressure refers to a force exerted on humans, objects, and ecosystems that prevents or facilitates the flow and growth of things, movements, bodies, and ideas. Cuba has to cope with a lot of pressure due to the collapse of the tourist industry in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, an aging infrastructure, a malfunctioning system, and the long-lasting U.S. embargo. I propose to think through pressure in order to highlight some of the strategies adopted by people and other organisms to deal with or lower the pressure felt in their daily life. In reflecting on the current Cuban economic, social and humanitarian crisis, I aim at catching the pulse of the moment to shift the crisis-based discourse to one based on pressure. I focus on two types of pressure – air and blood – to think through the pulse of the post-COVID Cuban crisis. Pressure allows for a cross-sectorial and multi-scalar understanding of the connections between how people live and how they strive to develop coping mechanisms to face pressure.

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Section: Concluding Remarks: Pressure Wavesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Under pressure: Catching the pulse of a Cuban crisis

Boudreault‐Fournier

2023

Environ Plan D

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“…Phenomenological perspectives further centre air as an elemental force that contributes to affective atmospheres that envelop, expand and contract urban conditions in the co-production of landscapes and subjectivities that unsettle the distinctions between air, city and body (Adey, 2013;Anderson, 2009;Engelmann, 2015;Ghertner, 2020;Tripathy and Mc-Farlane, 2022). Through the process of breathing, air challenges idealised conceptualisations of the body as an 'imagined space of purity' (Balayannis and Garnett, 2020: 6;Bickerstaff and Walker, 2003;Engelmann, 2015;Peterson, 2021), and bounded understandings of 'inside/outside', foregrounding air as an agentic force 'in the composition of landscape, social conditions and subjectivities' (Engelmann, 2015: 441;Ingold, 2010;Ruiz and Jue, 2021). Rejecting universalising narratives of crisis and collapse, elemental approaches foreground the intricate socionatures of anthropogenic climate and environmental change.…”

Section: High-rise and Elemental Geographies: Thinking With Assemblagementioning

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Assembling high-rise: The uneven agencies of air in suburban densification in the Anthropocene

Cook,

Kerr

2023

Urban Studies

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The COVID-19 pandemic brought to the surface the critical qualities of air – airflow, ventilation, particulates etc. – in relation to the well-being of people living in high-rise. Engineering and architectural research has burgeoned in response. However, in focusing on models of airflow, ventilation and particulates as discrete variables, engineering and architectural discourse fails to capture the diverse ways that air enters into and shapes the everyday lived experience of high-rise dwelling. Drawing on research in Sydney’s Southwestern suburbs, we reveal high-rise as an assemblage that links apartment dwelling with air, via car-dependent suburbanisation, pollution and climate-change induced temperature extremes in the Anthropocene. In addition to viruses, air teems with carbon, insects, noise and pollutants, while viscerally mediating human encounters with fluctuating temperatures. Multiple relations between people, buildings and air unfold simultaneously, confounding attempts to account for air’s elemental milieu through single variables like greenhouse gas or COVID-19. While embedded in relations of power, high-rise assemblages unleash vernacular adaptation that through low-tech and low-cost technologies work to connect suburban high-rise with evolving ecological systems. Recognising the pharmacological quality of air, as both ‘poison’ and ‘cure’, we contrast models of high-rise as encapsulated environments with resident (and other) experiments that orient high-rise to the elements, and the interlinked challenges of urban living in the Anthropocene.

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“…Indeed, the interchangeable use of the terms ‘climate’ and ‘atmosphere’ to refer to either the meteorological or the affective in everyday as well as scholarly contexts evidences their ‘always‐already entangled nature’ (p. 1). Consequently, rather than being a given, atmospheres are situated, emergent and changeable, as bodies are drawn into relation with all kinds of matter over time (Peterson, 2021). Atmospheres are therefore neither purely natural nor wholly social, being both external and internal to living, breathing bodies (Garnett, 2017, p. 325).…”

Section: Environmental Knowing: From Sociocultural Meanings To Atmosp...mentioning

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Attuning to ambiguous atmospheres: Currents of air, discourse and time in a steel town

Roberts

Groves

Thomas

et al. 2023

Trans Inst British Geog

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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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Indefinite Urbanism: Airport Noise and Atmospheric Encounters in Los Angeles

Cited by 4 publications

References 21 publications

Under pressure: Catching the pulse of a Cuban crisis

Under pressure: Catching the pulse of a Cuban crisis

Assembling high-rise: The uneven agencies of air in suburban densification in the Anthropocene

Attuning to ambiguous atmospheres: Currents of air, discourse and time in a steel town

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