Materiality of Air responds to the growing scientific explorations of elements and the elemental, as well as
the complex environmental, sociopolitical, economic, and cultural issues that come to the fore through these
elements. Exploring air, airborne phenomena, and elemental representation, this book dissects the
materiality of air, a materiality that comes to the fore more and more vigorously given the ongoing
environmental and health crises. Materiality of Air illuminates the porous nature of air both literally and
figuratively: air as space that contains and engages with other elements, particles, and beings, and air as
matter that moves, envelopes, and penetrates objects, spaces, and time. It explores airs material qualities
through the lenses of violence, toxicity, pollution, capitalism, climate change, and transmission, among
others, and thus directly engages with representation, crisis, and well-being. Drawing on perspectives from
the environmental humanities, health humanities, cultural studies, literary studies, art, and history, studying
literature and culture, ecology and society, the chapters consider the complex relationships between
humans, more-than-humans, and the environment more broadly.