Repellents and New “Spaces of Concern” in Global Health

Kelly, Ann H.; Koudakossi, Hermione N. Boko; Moore, Sarah

doi:10.1080/01459740.2017.1327957

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“…Chemical interventions modify the material composition of the air to engender a palpably inhospitable and/or unpleasant affective atmosphere for the target pest. The best-known and most controversial examples relate to the engineering of atmospheric chemistry for insect eradication (see Kelly et al, 2017; Phillips, 2013). The aerial spraying of endocrine disputing chemicals (like DDT) disrupts the lifecycles of insect species and creates toxic atmospheres with radically simplified ecologies and ecosystem dynamics.…”

Section: How Animals’ Atmospheres Are Engineeredmentioning

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Animals’ atmospheres

Lorimer

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Barua

2017

Progress in Human Geography

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This article introduces the concept of animals’ atmospheres, as a contribution to work in animal and atmospheric geographies. It defines the concept and identifies the key factors that shape an animals’ atmosphere. These offer a framework for future comparative research. The second section focuses on methodological and epistemic challenges of knowing and representing animal atmospheres. The third section examines engineering of animals’ atmospheres, in context of the biopolitics of managing animal life in the Anthropocene. In conclusion, the article highlights its contributions. Illustrations are drawn from the atmospheres of dogs and wolves.

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Section: How Animals’ Atmospheres Are Engineeredmentioning

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Animals’ atmospheres

Lorimer

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Barua

2017

Progress in Human Geography

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“…With these expanded modes of encounter, health and pollution materialize less as statistical targets or objectives and instead become sites of intervention for transforming environmental and social relations (cf. Kelly et al, 2017).…”

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Planetary health in practice: sensing air pollution and transforming urban environments

Gabrys

2020

Humanit Soc Sci Commun

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Often, health is seen to be a matter of attending to individuals and their behaviour, or of studying populations in order to manage disease. However, pollution is a problem of the health of environments, as much as it is a problem of the health of bodies. To understand health and pollution, it is necessary to examine energy-intensive infrastructures and developed environments that produce air pollutants and impair ecosystems. In other words, air pollution requires approaches to health that are planetary in scope and that account for the socio-environmental processes and relations that make health possible. Planetary health is often approached as a broad analysis of earth systems. However, diverse and situated environmental practices also contribute to the formation of planetary health. This article asks how citizen-sensing practices tune into the problem of air pollution in Southeast London, and in so doing differently configure pollution and planetary health. While many sensing technologies promise to make citizens into more capable political actors through the collection of data, this research investigates how communities use sensors in distinct ways to support, activate or extend community-led projects in urban environments. Rather than citizensensing practices contributing to improved air quality through the abstract circulation of data, we found that environmental monitoring became enmeshed in ongoing and broader struggles to improve the health of urban environments. These practices not only challenge the official scripts of sensing devices, they also remake the usual ways of demarcating health in relation to air pollution by shifting away from individual behaviour and toward collective environmental actions. This article then asks how community proposals for urban design and action conjoin with citizen-sensing practices to generate strategies for reworking and reconstituting health toward more planetary compositions.

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“…By disrupting the idea of a stable inside, breathing bodies produced new atmospheres of concern that were constituted through the respiratory dynamics of occupants and dwellings and human and non human bodies. Examining what breathing spaces bring into view indicates the need for a different immunological vision (Kelly et al, 2017) in public health approaches to air pollution. Including the ways in which bodies and buildings breathe offers a broader range of possibilities in scientists’ thinking, imaginings, narratives and practices around air pollution exposure (Blackman, 2010: 3).…”

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“…By reflecting on the assumptions that underpin approaches to exposure in science social and cultural analyses of toxicity and containment can also shift. In their work on the spatial dimensions of vector-borne diseases, Ann Kelly, Hermione Boko Koudakossi and Sarah Moore, (2017) propose an immunological vision that attends to the vicinities of domestic interiors. Rather than vector-free (or indeed pollution-free) spaces, the paper develops a spatial understanding of immunity – ‘spatial repellency’ – that is mutually achieved and flexible in character.…”

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Breathing Spaces: Modelling Exposure in Air Pollution Science

Garnett

2020

Body & Society

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In this article, I materially situate air pollution exposure as a topic of social and political inquiry by paying attention to the increasing specificity of spaces and sites of exposure in air pollution and health research. Evidence of the unevenness of exposure and differential health effects of air pollution have led to a proliferation of studies on the risks different environments pose to bodies. There are increasingly different airs in air pollution science. In this research, bodies are often relegated to passive objects, exposed according to the environments they move between. Yet exposure implies a blurring of bodies and environments which also challenges the idea of a discrete body that is distinguishable from its material context. By studying the process of modelling indoor air pollution, I highlight how air pollution, buildings and bodies are co-implicated with one another in ways that demand new ways of materialising human exposure in science.

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Repellents and New “Spaces of Concern” in Global Health

Cited by 11 publications

References 64 publications

Animals’ atmospheres

Animals’ atmospheres

Planetary health in practice: sensing air pollution and transforming urban environments

Breathing Spaces: Modelling Exposure in Air Pollution Science

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