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Atmospheric Wellbeing: Sensing the More-Than-Human Dynamics of Air
Cultural studies, critical methodologies, Vol.First online(1)
16/10/2025
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Abstract
Clean air is vital to bodily, social, and planetary wellbeing. This article develops the concept of ‘atmospheric wellbeing’ as a framework for investigating the more-than-human dynamics of air through its affective and sensory qualities. Engaging the new field of critical air studies, the authors explore creative and multisensory social research methods which register the uneven distributions of air quality and the relationships between atmospheric sensing, feeling, and political action. This emerging approach offers new avenues for air quality research and seeds future-focused ideas for understanding and enhancing atmospheric wellbeing through creative means.
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- Title
- Atmospheric Wellbeing: Sensing the More-Than-Human Dynamics of Air
- Creators
- David Rousell - RMIT UniversityDeborah Lupton - UNSW Sydney
- Publication Details
- Cultural studies, critical methodologies, Vol.First online(1)
- Publisher
- Sage
- Grant note
- Lupton’s contribution to this article was funded by the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (grant ID CE200100005).
- Identifiers
- 991013324324302368
- Copyright
- © The Author(s) 2025,
- Academic Unit
- Faculty of Education
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article