Booker, D. orcid.org/0000-0003-0638-1070, Walker, G. orcid.org/0000-0002-5278-6792, Young, P.J. orcid.org/0000-0002-5608-8887 et al. (1 more author) (2023) A critical air quality science perspective on citizen science in action. Local Environment, 28 (1). pp. 31-46. ISSN 1354-9839
Abstract
Air pollution is a hybrid phenomenon, understood and produced through social practices and material environmental processes. This hybridity leads us to engage critically with how air quality science is carried out. In dialogue with the critical physical geography subdiscipline, we propose a critical air quality science (CAQS) framework to study air pollution’s sociomateriality. We use CAQS to illuminate four tensions in the dynamics of knowledge production during a citizen science air quality monitoring project: making undone science matter, blurring “insiderness”/“outsiderness”, traffic as both life and death, and changing behaviours versus changing systems. Drawing on interviews with citizen scientists, we outline the implications of these tensions for air quality research design and reporting. The CAQS framework provokes critical thought about the consequences of how air quality science understands, creates and communicates knowledge, and how we can reconfigure our relations with the air to minimise air inequalities.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2022 The Author(s). This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
Keywords: | Air pollution, air quality, citizen science, critical air quality science, environmental justice, epistemic justice |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Engineering & Physical Sciences (Leeds) > School of Civil Engineering (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 21 Mar 2024 10:31 |
Last Modified: | 21 Mar 2024 10:31 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Taylor and Francis |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/13549839.2022.2118700 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:210661 |
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