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Abstract
The Habitable Air Project addresses the under-analyzed relationship between three urgent issues: (1) the rapid growth of urban inequality; (2) the amplification of political divisions in major democracies; and (3) the increasing impact of pollution and global warming. This talk, drawing from ethnographic and historical methods, will present results from a multi-country air monitoring study in interconnected energy hubs in South Africa, the United States, and Germany. The talk argues for a sociocultural approach to cross-border air pollution by shifting the focus to networked practices of ordinary citizens, as they grapple with an industry at the center of their lives and community debates about their health and that of the planet.
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Kerry Chance is an Associate Professor of Social Anthropology at UiB, and a Non-Resident Du Bois Fellow at the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University.
Her research focuses on two major topics in South Africa and the United States: (1) the politics of urban ecology at the intersections of gender, race, and class; and (2) the cultural dynamics of climate change, particularly their effects upon differentiated bodies. Broadly, her work examines how the urban poor, living on the precarious margins often without formalized work or basic infrastructure, come to inhabit political roles that transform economic and environmental relationships. Source: Kerry Ryan Chance - University of Bergen
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