Self-Portraits of Personal Exposure to Air Pollution: on where and when People Are Exposed, and on why it Is Difficult to Avoid

Schio, Nicola Da

doi:10.1007/s10745-020-00176-y

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“…The chronic toxicity that remote learning exerts on the human body makes grafted transnationalism in effect a ‘polluted routine’ (Da Schio et al, 2019). Compared to the generally eurhythmically functioning bodies of their oversease counterparts, such ‘polluted routine’ is further an embodiment of the discrepancy between the ideal and the obstructed progression in school‐to‐work migration process.…”

Section: Rhythms In Disrupted Social Timementioning

confidence: 99%

Grafted transnationalism: Rhythmic routines and disruptions of stay‐at‐home international students

Cai,

Fang

2023

Population Space and Place

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Despite the lifting of COVID‐19 restrictions eventually, the destabilising consequences of the pandemic on migration persist and continue to worsen. Based on in‐depth interviews with 25 Chinese international students, this paper asks what new forms of education transnationality are being introduced by the intersection of digital mobility and physical immobility. Using Henri Lefebvre's (2004) rhythmanalysis, we understand stay‐at‐home international students' sensual and physical experiences as palpable aspects of daily existence that not only constitute transnational lived temporalities but also trigger ‘small accidents’, leading to potentially larger‐scale temporal changes. By attending to the dynamic interaction between their agency and the external structure, we conclude that situated corporeal and emotional suffering, embodied transitioning strategies, and changes to mobility pathways make up the fabric of the immobile everydayness of the new ‘grafted transnationalism’. This paper contributes to the existing scholarship on transnational education by highlighting the dual sense of exclusion that students experience in both corporeal and social time, as well as the multilayered possibilities of reorientation as their way of regaining control of dyssynchronous rhythmic encounters. It also sorts out the implications of lifetime geography on students’ differentially distributed vulnerability and susceptibility when facing life course disruptions.

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Section: Rhythms In Disrupted Social Timementioning

confidence: 99%

Grafted transnationalism: Rhythmic routines and disruptions of stay‐at‐home international students

Cai,

Fang

2023

Population Space and Place

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“…It can be, in such ways, necessary to breathe in polluted air order to partake in the rhythms of making livelihoods, accessing services and enact everyday sustenance. There are ‘pollut ed routines’ (Da Schio et al., 2019) which repeat in alignment with the differentiated possibilities and obligations of urban life and the unequal resources that are available to sustain well-being.…”

Section: Unequal Rhythms: Intersections and Implicationsmentioning

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Breathing in the polyrhythmic city: A spatiotemporal, rhythmanalytic account of urban air pollution and its inequalities

Walker

Booker

Young

2020

Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space

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Inspired by Lefebvre’s meditation on the rhythms seen from his apartment in Paris, we develop a novel rhythmanalytic account of urban air pollution, its breathing-in and impact in vulnerable bodies. We conceptualise urban air pollution as entwined in its making and consequence with the diverse rhythms of technologies, social practices and socio-temporal structures, environmental and atmospheric processes, bodily movements in space and time, and rhythmically constituted corporeality. Through this interdisciplinary account we position urban air pollution as integral to the ‘beat’ of the city, both a product of and constituent part of its evolving spatiotemporal form. We build on this foundation to develop a polyrhythmic conceptualisation of how certain places and lives are more dominated by pollution than others. Unequal patternings are made through the structuring effects of rhythmic repetition and by fatal intersections between the rhythms of polluted air and unequal capacities to avoid harmful breathing in and to resist the arrhythmic corporeal consequences that can follow. Understanding inequalities as manifest not within a static landscape of spatial relations, but in sets of unequally unfolding and structured polyrhythmic relations has implications for revealing patterns of inequality and for extending evidence-making more deeply into how rhythms intersect. Which and whose rhythms are to be intervened in are also considered as key ethical and political questions. We draw out implications for activism and community action, and identify the potential for bringing rhythmanalysis into productive engagement with broader environmental justice concerns, including in relation to recent COVID-19 experiences.

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“…In the same year, the AirCasting Brussels project represented an interesting example of a living lab conducted by both the academic world and civil society [ 14 ]. As part of the project, a group of 7 adults were actively involved in designing and running a 1-week personal PM2.5 monitoring campaign aimed at studying perceptions, beliefs, and exposure according to individual space–time trajectories [ 15 ]. At the national level, the research project “Mapping of air pollution in a school catchment area of Milan” (MAPS MI) involved parents, teachers, and children of a primary school in the city, as well as residents of the school catchment area of a research process aimed at mapping the airborne contaminant black carbon (BC) on a neighborhood scale [ 16 ], studying the determinants of personal exposure of school-age children [ 17 ], and identifying possible exposure hotspots during home–school journeys [ 18 ].…”

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Living Lab Experience in Turin: Lifestyles and Exposure to Black Carbon

Salimbene

Boniardi

Lingua

et al. 2022

IJERPH

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State-of-the-art, continuous personal monitoring is a reference point for assessing exposure to air pollution. European air-quality standards for particulate matter (PM) use mass concentration of PM (PM with aerodynamic diameters ≤ 10 μm (PM10) or ≤2.5 μm (PM2.5)) as the metric. It would be desirable to determine whether black carbon (BC) can be used as a better, newer indicator than PM10 and PM2.5. This article discusses the preliminary results of one of the three living laboratories developed in the project “Combination of traditional air quality indicators with an additional traffic proxy: Black Carbon (BC)”. The Living Lab#1 (LL#1) involved 15 users in the city of Turin, Italy. Three portable aethalometers (AE51) were used to detect personal equivalent black carbon (eBC) concentrations in the respiratory area of volunteers at 10-s intervals as they went about their normal daily activities. The Geo-Tracker App and a longitudinal temporal activity diary were used to track users’ movements. The sampling campaign was performed in November for one week. and each user was investigated for 24 h. A total of 8640 eBC measurements were obtained with an average daily personal exposure of 3.1 µg/m3 (±SD 1.3). The change in movement patterns and the variability of microenvironments were decisive determinants of exposure. Preliminary results highlight the potential utility of Living Labs to promote innovative approaches to design an urban-scale air-quality management plan which also includes BC as a new indicator.

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Self-Portraits of Personal Exposure to Air Pollution: on where and when People Are Exposed, and on why it Is Difficult to Avoid

Cited by 6 publications

References 35 publications

Grafted transnationalism: Rhythmic routines and disruptions of stay‐at‐home international students

Grafted transnationalism: Rhythmic routines and disruptions of stay‐at‐home international students

Breathing in the polyrhythmic city: A spatiotemporal, rhythmanalytic account of urban air pollution and its inequalities

Living Lab Experience in Turin: Lifestyles and Exposure to Black Carbon

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