Disciplines
Other Humanities (25%); Geosciences (25%); Health Sciences (25%); Linguistics and Literature (25%)
Keywords
Air,
(in)visibility,
Pollution,
COVID-19,
Environment,
Health
Abstract
This book tackles air as a cultural, medical, and environmental phenomenon. Its major aim is to explore
airs visibility and invisibility within the environment through the investigation of such phenomena as
pollution and pandemics. The book provides environmental and medical perspectives on air, in particular
how it has historically been envisioned in U.S., Canadian, and British cultural and literary narratives, and
explores how these representations and the constructed meanings of air can help us understand the
complex nature of air as it pertains to the COVID-19 pandemic, air pollution, and broader environmental
degradation.