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  1. Cover
  2. Half Title Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Contents
  6. Preface and Acknowledgments
  7. Introduction. Atmospheric Citizens: How to Make Breathable Worlds
    1. Toolkit 1. Citizen Sense Toolkit
  8. 1. Instrumental Citizens: How to Retool Action
    1. Toolkit 2. Frackbox Toolkit
  9. 2. Speculative Citizens: How to Evidence Harm
    1. Toolkit 3. Dustbox Toolkit
  10. 3. Data Citizens: How to Reinvent Rights
    1. Toolkit 4. Phyto-Sensor Toolkit
  11. 4. Multiple Citizens: How to Cultivate Relations
    1. Toolkit 5. AirKit Toolkit
  12. Conclusion. Sensing Citizens: How to Collectivize Experience
  13. Plates
  14. Notes
  15. Bibliography
  16. Index
  17. About the Author

Plates

Citizen demonstrating the use of a natural gas methane monitor in proximity to fracking infrastructure in Pennsylvania.

Signs stating, “Keep Out,” and “Dimock Proud,” and effigy of family-as-pigs set up to protest residents who complained about contaminated wellwater.

Plate 1. Citizen monitoring of gas emissions near fracking infrastructure; pro-fracking signs at vacated home site known to have polluted well water in Dimock, Pennsylvania. Photographs by Citizen Sense.

Installation of Speck PM2.5 monitor with weatherproof housing in the “death triangle” of a resident’s house near fracking infrastructure.

Sign protesting fracking regulations for zoning, which would maintain a minimum setback between industry and other land uses.

Plate 2. A Speck particulate-matter monitor with DIY weatherproof housing; pro-fracking sign protesting zoning regulations of fracking industry, Pennsylvania. Photograph above by Citizen Sense; photograph below by anonymous participant; courtesy of Citizen Sense.

Sign providing facts about air pollution in London, including frequency of cars and increased chances of developing asthma.

Demonstration of DIY citizen-sensing devices by Citizen Sense researcher during a test walk in London.

Plate 3. Signs alert passersby to air pollution on busy road in London; testing citizen-monitoring technology during a walk in New Cross Gate, South East London. Photographs by Citizen Sense.

Dustbox installation in the Beech Street regulatory air-quality monitor to compare measurements across sensors.

Plate 4. Installation of Dustbox in the Beech Street regulatory air-quality monitor. This monitor, sited at the edge of a traffic tunnel and near the Barbican Tube Station, regularly registers high levels of nitrogen oxides and particulate matter. Photograph by Citizen Sense.

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The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Research Council under the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP/2007-2013) / ERC Grant Agreement n. 313347, “Citizen Sensing and Environmental Practice: Assessing Participatory Engagements with Environments through Sensor Technologies.”

Portions of chapter 2 are adapted from “Citizen Sensing, Air Pollution, and Fracking: From ‘Caring about Your Air’ to Speculative Practices of Evidencing Harm,” Sociological Review monograph series 65, no. 2 (2017): 179–92; doi: 10.1177/0081176917710421, originally published by SAGE. Portions of chapter 3 are adapted from “Data Citizens: How to Reinvent Rights,” in Data Politics: Worlds, Subjects, Rights, edited by Didier Bigo, Engin Isin, and Evelyn Ruppert (Routledge Studies in International Political Sociology, 2019), 248–66. Portions of chapter 4 are adapted from “Sensing Lichens: From Ecological Microcosms to Environmental Subjects,” Third Text 32, no. 2 (2018): 350–67; doi: 10.1080/09528822.2018.1483884. Portions of chapter 4 are adapted from “Phyto-Sensor Toolkit: Cultivating the Swamps of Urban Air,” in Swamps and the New Imagination, edited by Nomeda Urbonas, Gediminas Urbonas, and Kristupas Sabolius (London: Sternberg Press, 2022).

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