{"product_id":"aeropolis-by-nerea-calvillo-9781941332788","title":"Aeropolis","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHow do we get to know air? \u003cem\u003eAeropolis: Queering Air in Toxicpolluted Worlds\u003c\/em\u003e offers a speculative and interdisciplinary framework to reorient common understandings of air and air pollution as matter \"out there.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAeropolis\u003c\/em\u003e contests regimes of managing air which ultimately operate toward upholding dominant modes of world-making that are dependent on forms of exclusion and inequity. Instead, \u003cem\u003eAeropolis\u003c\/em\u003e proposes that air is thought of as a city, to centre its social, cultural, political, and ecological entanglements.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDrawing upon feminist technoscience and queer ecological frameworks, \u003cem\u003eAeropolis\u003c\/em\u003e moves away from solutions toward a methodology of \"designing-thinking-making\" that redirects and connects our understandings of air—as designers, as citizens—with ongoing struggles for just futures.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMoving through a series of design interventions, histories of air, and theoretical coordinates, \u003cem\u003eAeropolis\u003c\/em\u003e thinks with air across its many forms—through smog and dust, bodies and breath, pollen and weeds, and from urban design to geopolitics, polluted environments to open data, parks to aerial infrastructures.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt insists that we acknowledge the diversity of air and its relation to humans, non-humans, and environments, both physically and affectively. It encourages us to become sensible to air by following its unruliness—by living, breathing, seeing, holding, touching, queering airs.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47485748478188,"sku":"9781941332788","price":37.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781941332788-aeropolis.jpg?v=1775714712","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/aeropolis-by-nerea-calvillo-9781941332788","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}