Index
Aarhus Convention, 273n23
action, 28, 70, 82, 84, 141, 143; air-quality, 193; collective, 71, 78, 159; diagram of, 216; environmental, 3, 12, 31, 120, 156; political, 120; retooling, 87, 88–91; trajectories of, 183
activism, 86, 87; citizen, 71, 136; data, 153; environmental, 8, 46; health, 10, 89; local, 35
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR), 136, 137–38
air pollution, 4, 20, 22, 23, 57, 71, 80, 99, 149, 156, 160, 162, 173, 177, 178, 183, 196, 209, 228, 232, 238, 248; addressing, 41, 44, 53, 60, 75, 103, 104, 150, 175, 193, 208, 216, 217, 221, 227; atmospheric citizens and, 12–18; bioremediation of, 224; deaths attributable to, 12–13, 99, 246, 257n42, 257–58n43, 271n1; documenting, 102, 159–60; elements of, 3, 16; exposure to, 103, 112; filtering, 203, 234; fracking and, 78, 100, 102, 117, 123, 126, 128, 129; human rights and, 271n7; impact of, 12, 149, 150, 277n96; levels of, 149, 187, 216, 224; measuring, 150, 205; mitigating, 2, 184, 217, 221; problems with, 22, 103, 118, 132, 180, 193, 197, 221; sensing, 4, 6, 20, 21, 54, 62, 160; urban, 100, 152, 169, 197
air quality, 3, 13, 55, 82, 118, 196, 171, 221, 224; addressing, 37, 44, 150; citizen sensing of, 158; concerns about, 138; fracking and, 120; improving, 19, 165, 180, 216, 234; monitoring, 18, 35, 36, 75, 79, 83, 93, 150, 160, 162, 198, 211; plans for, 241; regulation of, 58; standard of, 151
Air Quality Egg, 51, 55, 57, 61, 64, 76, 268n14; described, 53–54; networks with, 58; setting up, 39 (fig.); troubleshooting, 52 (fig.); working with, 58
“Air Sensor Toolbox,” 257n38
air-quality gardens, 6, 22, 201, 204 (fig.), 205, 206, 213, 214 (fig.), 217–18, 218 (fig.), 223 (fig.), 228, 229, 230, 231 (fig.), 232, 233 (fig.), 234, 235 (fig.), 237, 238, 239, 240, 278n2; constructing, 203, 208, 209, 216, 217, 219, 221–22, 224, 226, 227; particulate matter and, 222
Air Quality Index (AQI), 271n3
air-quality monitors, 37–38, 56 (fig.), 196, 224, 225 (fig.), 226; DIY, 224, 268n14
Airbeam monitors, 34 (fig.)
AirCasting monitor, 34 (fig.)
AirKit toolkit, 243 (fig.), 247
Airsift platform, 135, 137, 175, 176, 243 (fig.)
Allewaert, Monique, 239, 282n74
Alphasense, 124
Arduino microcontrollers, 42, 47, 54
Arendt, Hannah, 255n23, 263n94, 277n101
Arnstein, Sherry, 255n18
asthma, 16, 44, 114, 149, 185, 195, 267n9
atmospheres, 23, 106, 156; breathable, 16, 71; exchanging, 238; making/remaking, 210; political registers of, 14; toxic, 15; as zones of affect, 258n45
atmospheric citizens, 5, 254n14, 258n45, 258n50; air pollution and, 12–18
ATSDR. See Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
Austin, J. L., 49
badges, air-pollution, 62, 75, 97, 117, 118, 124, 130
Balibar, Étienne, 156, 256n27; on citizen, 17; citizen of the world and, 256n25; citizenship and, 273n27
Barbers’ Physic Garden, 236 (fig.), 237, 281n66
Barbican Estate, 219, 226, 232, 233 (fig.), 236; air quality at, 221; construction at, 220 (fig.); gardens at, 214 (fig.), 220 (fig.)
Barbican Tube Station, 225, 234
Barr, Laurie, 131
Barratt, Benjamin, 137
Bartram, William, 282n74
Beech Street air-quality monitor, 224, 225 (fig.), 234, 281n52
Benjamin, Ruha, 139, 153, 270n68; carceral techniques and, 260n19; empiricism and, 197; people’s science and, 63
Berlant, Lauren, 87, 91, 157, 158, 199, 215, 283n8; affective expectation and, 47; citizenship and, 1, 4, 256n31; cruel optimism and, 103, 257n40
Bernstein, Richard J., 282n75
BESC. See Breathe Easy Susquehanna County
Besson Street Gardens, 168 (fig.)
biodiversity, 129, 162, 183, 184, 219, 221; loss, 2, 217
biogenic volatile organic compounds (BVOCs), 222, 224
bioindication, 205, 209, 210, 212, 222, 224
birch trees (Betula pendula), 226–27
Black Lives Matter, 15, 195, 277n99
Black studies, 16, 19, 32, 230, 256n26
Blas, Zach, 89
Blaser, Mario, 281n69
Blomberg, Jeanette, 262n62
Body and Soul (Nelson), 256n32
Boler, Megan, 49
Bonfire Night, 176
Bowker, Geoffrey, 153
Boyd, David, 271n7
Braidotti, Rosi, 278n4
breathability, 5, 7, 10, 28, 105, 156, 177, 180, 187, 207, 208, 234, 239; conditions of, 17, 199, 241, 248; discussion of, 15, 16, 246; struggles for, 4, 13, 18, 258n46
breathable worlds, 4, 8, 9, 12, 14, 31, 32, 35, 73, 84, 104, 105, 118, 128, 132, 141, 151–52, 157, 158, 173, 175, 177, 184, 198, 207, 208, 209, 216, 221, 228, 229, 238, 249; data mobilization and, 155; making/remaking, 18–23, 30, 33, 91, 129, 178, 189, 193, 196; open-air instrumentalisms and, 69; right to, 15960, 178, 180, 183, 185, 187–91, 193, 195
breathe, right to, 22, 151, 196
Breathe Easy Susquehanna County (BESC), 117, 118, 136
breathing, 14, 20, 99, 238, 246; atmospheres and, 16, 71; Black feminist, 16; bodies/environments and, 259n65; as collective endeavor, 246; colonial legacies of, 16; constitutive aspects of, 14; governance as, 17; openness of, 259n56; as process, 17, 238; sensing and, 17–18; struggles for, 14, 15, 16; as transformative, 17. See also combat breathing
breathing otherwise, 15, 16–18, 246, 258n50
Bridgewater Township, 137
Brooklyn Township, 137
BTEX chemicals, 62, 95, 117, 124
Butler, Judith, 50
BVOCs. See biogenic volatile organic compounds
Callén, Blanca, 265n113
Campt, Tina, 258n49
carbon monoxide, 54, 55, 60, 61, 78
Care for Your Air, 268n14
CaTTfish, 35
Center for Urban Pedagogy, 89
Centers for Disease Control, 136
Césaire, Aimé, 256n35
Cheah, Pheng, 15, 255n21, 259n55, 259n56
chemicals, 109–10, 114–15, 117, 120, 268n27; BTEX, 62, 95, 117, 124; detecting, 60; proprietary, 110
citizen data, 13, 80, 103, 138, 141, 142, 151, 152, 155, 156, 157, 158, 180–81, 185, 198, 199, 248; analysis of, 6, 20, 135, 171; collection/mobilization of, 22, 187, 191, 197; entanglements of, 196; figuring, 175–78; in practice, 129, 160, 162, 165–66, 169, 171, 173, 175–78; rights and, 159; sensors and, 11, 198; urban worlds and, 189–91, 193, 195
Citizen Sense, 19, 53, 78, 150, 152, 180, 255n19, 268n21, 270n55, 275n59, 280n48; air-quality gardens and, 216; air-quality monitoring and, 184; Dustboxes by, 37; fracking and, 106; logbook, 79 (fig.), 83 (fig.), 88, 127 (fig.); Phyto-Sensor Toolkit and, 201 (fig.), 222, 230, 232; research by, 87, 160; sensors and, 28
Citizen Sense Toolkit, 26 (fig.), 56 (fig.), 61, 62, 82, 123, 124, 126, 127, 128, 132, 134
citizen sensing, 4, 7, 11, 13, 20, 22, 23, 29, 35, 37, 48, 64, 75, 85, 102, 117, 123, 124, 128, 134, 136, 137, 141, 142, 150, 154, 164, 169, 170, 196, 205, 208, 216, 217; described, 6, 27; devices, 31, 51, 74 (fig.), 180, 189; diagram of, 90; formation of, 3; pollution and, 106; term, 5–6; transforming, 226–29, 230
citizen-sensing projects, 29, 32, 40, 60, 248; practice-based, 13; proliferation of, 3
citizens, 7, 23, 145, 155–56; constituting, 208; contradictory, 245; digital, 5, 9, 245; empowering, 106; environmental, 112, 213; expressions of, 71; formations of, 12, 91; in-forming/re-constituting, 90; instrumental, 28, 57, 60, 70–73, 84; modes of, 5, 157; multiple, 207, 213; neoliberal, 245; protecting, 106; scientific, 245; speculative, 105–6, 143; term, 9, 11, 12, 17. See also atmospheric citizens; data citizens; instrumental citizens; multiple citizens; sensing citizens; speculative citizens
citizens of worlds, 7–12; concept of, 11, 156; multiplying, 209, 238–39
citizenship, 1, 17, 18, 23, 31, 65, 145, 175, 189, 195, 215, 228, 248; alterities of, 9, 256n29; ambient, 13, 14; conceptions of, 154; constituting, 208; designations of, 7, 10, 12; digital, 10, 31, 50, 249, 254n15, 256n29; economic, 227; environmental, 6, 20, 157, 175, 216; expressions of, 10, 19, 67, 71, 100, 143, 151; formations of, 4, 10, 256n26; genealogy of, 249; Indigenous, 215; modes of, 5, 10, 11, 32, 157, 158, 175, 199, 215, 245; more-than-human, 229; multiple, 7, 207, 213, 229; proliferating, 4, 8, 9–12; registers of, 14, 18; restrictions on, 250, 256n32; reworkings of, 5, 157; speculative, 117, 123, 137, 138, 139, 143; stable condition of, 156; struggles over, 249; technological, 248, 249. See also data citizenship
citizenship contradiction, 10, 274n37
City in Bloom initiative, 218 (fig.), 219, 234, 235
City of London, 205, 214, 216, 218, 220, 224; air-quality initiatives by, 219; collaboration with, 221; monitoring locations in, 281n52
City Nature Challenge, 219
City Now City Future exhibition, 217, 230
Clean Air Day, 238
Clean Air Gardens, The, 219
climate change, 3, 102, 229, 254n14
collaboration, 46, 61, 78, 82, 102, 129, 134, 138, 141, 166, 216, 221, 227, 228, 248; contingent, 266n127; more-than-human, 241; struggle and, 20. See also research
collectives, 105, 143, 245; breathing, 16–18; environmental, 23, 45, 229; political, 229
colonialism, 1, 14, 15, 239, 279n20
combat breathing, 14–16, 100, 152, 246
community, 70, 76, 106, 126, 227, 248; constituting, 207; ecological, 212, 213; exposed, 105; projects, 178, 237; term, 12
community groups, 166, 180, 183, 203
community organizing, 41, 75, 128, 132, 136, 193, 260n9; signs documenting, 164 (fig.)
compressor stations, 78, 81, 82, 97, 99, 114, 115, 118, 124, 129, 130, 131, 132, 140, 144 (fig.)
Cool Components, 43
Corburn, Jason, 269n45
Cosm, 62
cosmology, 22; flat-pack, 38–40, 41, 66, 69; multidimensional, 30; multiple, 42
Cosmopolitics (Stengers), 261n34
County Enforcement (security firm), 187
Cowen, Deborah, 281n59
Crawley, Ashton T., 18, 230, 259n56; on breathing as process, 238; openness to worlds and, 207
Create Lab, 124
cultivation, 187, 237; counter-practices of, 229; as expression of power, 227; space, 221
Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, 2
Dakota Access Pipeline, 1
Dalmain Primary School, sign at, 247 (fig.)
Das, Pamela, 257n42
data, 33, 41, 58, 62, 106, 112, 132, 138, 143, 145, 149, 151, 160, 165, 180, 197; air-pollution, 37, 103, 120, 175; air-quality, 53, 150, 173, 176; analyzing, 20, 31, 35, 43, 45, 75, 100, 126, 152, 159, 166, 171, 175, 176, 178, 197, 221, 248; citizen-sensing, 141, 184, 191, 257n38; collecting, 44, 45, 50, 51, 54, 60, 61, 71, 73, 103, 120, 126, 131, 134, 150, 153, 154, 159, 177–78, 188, 189, 199, 216, 248; communicating, 128, 196; environmental, 54, 61, 131; mobilizing, 55, 155, 158, 257n38; resource, 154, 177; rights and, 158, 166; sensor, 43, 45, 177, 197; trajectories of, 61, 183; transforming, 134, 136–39, 141; word-of-mouth, 165. See also citizen data
Data for Black Lives, 159
data citizens, 151, 189, 197–98, 199; citizens of worlds and, 155; constituting, 152–60; mobilization by, 187; right to data/right to worlds and, 156; struggle and, 154, 155; urban environmental data practices and, 196
data citizenship, 152, 166, 175, 178, 189; form of, 154; materializing, 155
Data For Black Lives (website), 274n41
data practices, 77, 150, 151, 156, 169, 193, 197, 198; multiple, 166; ontology of, 199; pluralizing, 183–85, 187–89; research on, 272n17
data sets, 80, 126, 134, 136, 142, 175; alternative, 112; analyzing, 154
de la Bellacasa, Puig, 103–4
de la Cadena, Marisol, 11, 255n23, 257n36, 266n131, 281n69, 283n8
decibel meters, 75, 112 (Fig.)
Delgado, Ana, 265n113
democracy, 28, 32, 67, 157, 248, 277n103; continued invention of, 156; creative, 68, 265n116, 270n67; technology and, 266–67n148
Department of Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs (DEFRA), 171
Deptford, 60, 150, 160, 165, 169, 172 (fig.), 174, 175, 191, 193; air-pollution sources in, 181 (fig.); citizen sensing in, 183; development/densification of, 162
Deptford Data Stories, 177, 178
Deptford Folk, 190–91, 194, 217
“Deptford Is Changing” (project), 274n49
Deptford Lounge and Library, 164 (fig.)
Deptford Neighbourhood Action and Voice, 183
Deptford Park, 190, 191, 194 (fig.), 276n86, 276n90
Detroit Community Technology Project, 89
development, 9, 13, 41, 87, 99, 221; community, 165; housing, 183, 187; plans, 118, 183; technology, 262n62; urban, 150, 160, 162, 219, 246
Dewey, John, 32, 63, 76, 85–86, 105, 264n104, 266n121, 273n29, 273n30, 277n92, 283n8; consequent phenomena and, 143; instrumentalism and, 68, 69, 72, 264n96, 265n113; instruments and, 70, 91; pragmatism and, 67, 265n113, 276n85
Digital Smoke Signals, 1
digital technology, 8, 28, 35, 40, 50, 99, 141, 199, 249, 256n28, 263n84, 271n3, 282n6; citizen and, 5, 9; citizenship and, 6, 31; contrary position of, 33; engagement with, 21, 22; packaging of, 3; political engagement and, 9, 11; ramifications of, 33
Dillon, Lindsey, 16
Dourish, Paul, 261n36
drilling, 80, 82, 95; horizontal, 109; site, 101 (fig.)
Drone2bwild, 1
DuBois, W. E. B., 159, 270n67, 274n40
Dustbox Logbook, 170 (fig.), 171, 173
Dustboxes, xiv (fig.), 37, 147 (fig.), 163 (fig.), 164, 166, 175, 178, 179 (fig.), 206 (fig.), 221, 224, 230, 243 (fig.), 247 (fig.), 251 (fig.), 275n61; data from, 176, 226; development of, 169–70; distributing, 173; installation of, 167 (fig.), 168 (fig.), 173, 174 (fig.), 204 (fig.), 225 (fig.), PL4; monitoring, 171, 177; repairing, 167 (fig.)
E. coli, 154
Earth Works, 118
ecology, 241, 282n74; contaminated, 213; fracking, 131; political, 19; urban, 239
Edwards, W. Keith, 261n36
Electric Imp Wi-Fi modules, 169
electronics, 32, 33, 42, 54, 55; cosmology of, 41; DIY, 3, 47
Ella Roberta Family Foundation, 195, 277n96
emissions, 97, 103, 143, 145; monitoring, 102, 130, PL1; sources of, 227
energy, 35, 41, 104, 109, 110, 183; extraction of, 97, 123, 268n12; renewable/sustainable, 97; solar, 123
engagement, 21, 61, 63, 77, 102, 103–4, 128, 156, 158, 265n113; citizen, 41, 71, 250; collective, 17, 60; democratic, 5, 9, 150, 180; environmental, 3, 5, 37, 44, 129, 212; how-to, 30, 32, 102; modes of, 10, 30, 105; “otherwise,” 263n84; practice-based, 31; public, 51, 57, 112, 249, 254n16; speculative, 142; technological, 71, 90, 249, 250; technopolitical, 72. See also political engagement
environment, 13, 45, 50, 72, 76, 91, 99, 105, 143, 196, 209, 211, 213; care for, 78, 100; composition/decomposition of, 212; engagement with, 2, 228; health of, 237; observation/experiences of, 77; pollution in, 207; speculative encounters with, 106; transforming, 189, 208, 210, 228
environmental changes, 81, 110, 162, 165, 209, 211, 212, 229, 239; detecting, 203; urban, 150
environmental conditions, 4, 8, 134, 138, 145, 150, 151, 169, 189, 210
environmental destruction, 10, 20, 64, 97, 102, 103, 105, 143, 159, 207, 249, 250; impact of, 160; sensing/monitoring, 1; witnessing of, 9
environmental monitoring, 20, 35, 40, 47, 51, 75, 76, 88, 91, 100, 106, 110, 114–15, 120, 128, 131, 142, 143, 159, 160, 162, 165, 166, 171, 250; archive of, 99; undertaking, 3, 5, 6, 32, 43, 44, 85, 102, 154, 209, 219
Environmental Monitoring with Arduino, 47
environmental problems, 5, 7, 19, 20, 21, 23, 30, 39, 57, 61, 62, 76, 86, 103, 142, 143, 154, 155, 156, 162, 199, 207, 210, 213, 241, 249, 250; addressing, 66, 151; documenting, 129; facts of, 197; monitoring, 6; solving, 53
environmental projects, 75, 165; collective, 228–29
EPA. See US Environmental Protection Agency
EU Air Quality Objectives, 149
Eubanks, Virginia, 276n80
Euphorbia characias, 231 (fig.), 234, 280n49
Evelyn, John, 160
Evelyn (Ward of), 276n86
Evening Standard, 178
exchanges, 18, 112, 238; more-than-human, 208, 246
experimentalism, 265n113, 265n123; emergence of, 265n116; instrumentalism and, 67, 68, 69, 72–73, 264n94
exposures, 2, 14, 71, 80, 95, 100, 102, 112, 118, 136, 138, 143, 145, 193, 210, 238; avoiding, 13, 103; chemical, 114, 120, 124; more-than-human, 10; environmental, 115; tracking, 3
extraction, 9, 95, 97, 108, 131, 268n12; coal, 109; fossil-fuel, 3, 99, 110, 128; health issues and, 114
Fanon, Frantz, 14, 17, 195, 258n47, 259n56, 277n99; combat breathing and, 15, 246; decolonialization and, 125; revolutions and, 15
Feel Kit, 260n9
Feel Tank Chicago, 260n9
Finan, Frank, 97, 98 (fig.), 99, 116, 118, 120
Financial Times, 274n40
fireweed, spreading of, 219
First Nations, 17
Flint: water pollution in, 139; water testing in, 2
FLIR cameras, 75, 97, 98 (fig.), 99, 119 (fig.), 120
FLIR Gas Finder, 117
Flood Monitor, 35
Floyd, George, 15
fossil fuels, 97, 99, 149, 217, 224, 246; climate change and, 3; consumption of, 3, 151
Foucault, Michel, 273n28
Frackboxes, 62, 93 (fig.), 124, 130, 131, 132, 134, 144 (fig.), 269n49; components of, 125 (fig.); installations, 140 (fig.); wiring diagram for, 125 (fig.)
fracking, 22, 26, 83, 85, 93, 104, 122, 143, 145, 166, 171; air pollution and, 78, 100, 102, 117, 123, 126, 128; air quality and, 120; characteristics of, 80, 81–82; chronic illnesses and, 114; diagram of, 107 (fig.); environmental impacts of, 109, 142; equipment/transportation of, 96 (fig.); impact of, 99, 117, 128, 131; monitoring, 78, 79, 80–81, 97, 106, 108, 110, 112, 114–15, 117–18, 119, 120, 123; permissions, 109 (fig.); pollution from, 60, 95, 102, 105, 110, 118, 124, 131; protesting, 111 (fig.); water pollution and, 102, 110; well pads, 96 (fig.)
FracTracker, 117
Fukushima, radiation testing in, 2
Fumifugium (Evelyn), 160
garbage trucks, 192 (fig.)
gardens, 17, 173, 183, 184, 203; citizen, 226–29; clean-air, 221, 226, 228; community, 229, 281n59; demonstrator, 226, 280n49; development of, 22, 226; opening of, 184; pop-up, 219, 234, 235 (fig.); as zones of inquiry, 222
Garner, Eric, 15
gas fields, 139; air pollution and, 129
Getting Started with Sensors (O’Reilly), 47, 48, 49
Gilbert, Scott, 211
Glaude, Eddie S., 264n97, 273–74n34, 276n85, 279n92, 283n8
Global Community Monitor bucket, 116 (fig.)
Global Disease Burden, 257n42
Global Tools project, 260n6
Golden Lane Estates, 219
Goldsmiths, University of London, 180
Goodchild, Michael F., 254–55n18
governance, 67, 138, 215, 241, 248; air-quality, 58; as breathing, 17; modes of, 208; planetary, 8, 12; processes and, 84
Gramaglia, Christelle, 212
Greater London Authority, 171, 177
green spaces, 162, 183, 184, 185, 193, 221, 222; cultivating, 229; preservation of, 216
Gregory, Judith, 153
Groundwork USA, 229
Guidebook of Alternative Nows, A, 89
Gumbs, Alexis, 1; breathability and, 4, 15, 16; cosmology and, 39
Habitat Map, monitor from, 34 (fig.)
Hacking, Ian, 264n104
Halliburton loophole, 100
Haraway, Donna, 74, 90, 175; modest witness and, 85; on noncitizen, 256n30
harm, evidencing, 100, 102, 104, 105, 106, 110, 112, 114, 137, 138, 141–43, 145
health, 10, 80, 99, 103; conditions, 248; damaging, 97; environmental, 128, 237; extraction and, 114; guidelines, 150; planetary, 8; plants and, 237; protecting, 103; public, 41, 100, 128, 272n21; studies, 120, 138
Hebes, 234
Heisenberg, Werner, 86
Herball (Gerard), 281n66
Honor Oak Park, 193, 275n59, 276n90
Horton, Richard, 257n42
housing, 273n32; affordable, 184, 187; building, 187; high-density/high-end, 162; right to, 158, 187; shortage of, 184; social, 165, 183–84
how-to, 27; expanding practices of, 77–78, 80–82; inquiry and, 91; kits, 42; modes of, 102; right-to as, 156–60; transformation and, 87
How to Do Things with Words (Austin), 49
how-to guides, 27, 46, 48, 65; engagement and, 30, 32; political commitments and, 28–29
How to Suppress Women’s Writing (Russ), 28
How to Work Together, 260n9
human rights, air pollution and, 271n7
humidity, 35, 36, 54, 60, 61, 117, 124, 137
Imperatives to Re-imagine the Planet (Spivak), 77
impoundment pond, 113 (fig.)
iNaturalist, 219
Indigenous studies, 19, 210, 230, 256n26
inequality, 7, 21, 28, 31, 248; addressing, 183; climate-change, 229; economic, 139; health, 90; spatial, 229
infrastructure, 23, 62, 65, 78, 99, 103, 109, 114, 126, 129, 132, 141, 149, 150, 155, 196, 198; citizen-sensing, 102, 166, 169, 171, 173, 175; data-analysis, 20; digital, 41; Dustbox, 173; energy extraction, 97; enforcement, 117; environmental, 75; fossil-fuel, 1; fracking, 81, 93, 101 (fig.), 108, 108 (fig.), 109 (fig.), 113, 117, 124, 128, 140; gas, 80, 97, 130, 134; green, 184, 217; monitoring, 20, 100, 110, 131, 150, 171, 172 (fig.), 232; observational, 157; pipeline, 130; political, 75; regulatory, 117, 169; sewage, 165; social, 75; technological, 75, 153; transportation, 217
injustice, 18, 23, 28, 249; economic, 165; environmental, 3, 16, 99, 160, 190, 248; social, 3, 99, 165, 190; inquiry, 65, 85, 102; collective, 106, 118, 123–24, 126, 128–32, 134, 136–39, 141, 143, 157, 197, 248; communities of, 70, 76–77, 82, 89; experimentation and, 68; how-to and, 91; modes of, 66, 77, 90, 128–32, 134, 139, 141, 237; open-air, 130; processes of, 64, 68, 76, 106; scientific, 64, 238; tools/subjects of, 63; understanding of, 73
instrumental citizens, 5, 27, 30, 55, 57, 63, 68, 70–73, 84–85; action and, 102; modes of, 28; operating as, 31; speculative citizens and, 105
instrumentalism, 32, 64, 68, 86, 91, 105, 264n96; experimentalism and, 67, 68, 69, 72, 73, 264n94; revisiting/reworking, 73; term, 72. See also open-air instrumentalism
instrumentality, 37, 45, 61, 62, 64, 71, 74, 87, 91; instruments and, 65–70; interrogating, 90; technology and, 263n94; understanding of, 72
instruments, 37, 45, 74, 76, 84, 90, 91, 112, 171; change of, 65; citizen-sensing, 64, 71, 73; devising, 6273; instrumentality and, 65–70; list of, 63; open-air, 69; retooling, 64, 73; rights and, 158; technology and, 64, 69; testing, 72
Internet of Things (IoT), 27, 37, 55
IQAir, 58
Irwin, Alan, 272n12
Isin, Engin, 9
James, William, 21, 68, 69, 72, 74, 105, 239, 245, 248, 254n11, 264n96, 264n104, 266n131, 273n30, 274n34, 277n92, 279n16, 283n8; Dewey and, 273n31; instruments and, 70; multiverse and, 278n4; open air and, 32, 229–30, 254n12; pluralism and, 281n69, 282n75; radical empiricism and, 74, 84, 128
Jaspers, Karl, 255n23
justice, 77, 153, 241; environmental, 16, 19, 32, 41, 70, 90, 120, 178, 229, 258n46, 267n148, 271n5; social, 170, 178, 183, 216, 266n127
Kant, Immanuel, 255n22
Karpich, Paul, 140 (fig.)
Kickstarter, 51
killjoy survival kits, 29, 260n9
Kimmerer, Robin Wall, 207, 208, 211, 228, 241, 278n15, 280n36, 280n40, 280n51
Kissi-Debrah, Ella, 195
knowledge, 32, 64, 80, 126; community, 171; Indigenous, 84; more-than-, 84; pooling, 176; struggles, 269n39
LaDuke, Winona, 281n59
Lapoujade, David, 273n30
Leadsom, Andrea, 180
Lefebvre, Henri, 273n32
Lewisham, 165, 173, 185, 190, 195
Lewisham Council, 176, 191, 193, 275n59, 276n90
Liberty Township, pollution in, 137
“List of the Harmed,” 115, 269n38
Liveable Neighbourhoods, 191, 193
“Logbook of Monitoring Practices,” 78, 81, 82, 85, 123
London Air Quality Network, 55, 171, 175, 176
London Data Store, 165
low-emission-zone boundary sign, 161 (fig.)
Majaca, Antonia, 72
makeverse, pluriverse and, 82, 84–85
“Making Policy Public” (pamphlets), 89
Mapping for Change, 221
Marcellus Shale, 100, 106, 107 (fig.), 108, 112
MarcellusGas, 117
marronage, discussion of, 241
Marylebone Observatory, 171
Matsutake Worlds Research Group, 210
May, Theresa, 255n20
Mayor of London Low Emission Neighbourhood scheme, 216, 232
Mbembe, Achille, 196
Mehoopany Township, 137
methane, 99, 102, 109, 124, 131
microcontrollers, 27, 33, 41, 42, 46, 49, 51, 54, 61, 70
Microsoft Excel, 136
Mignolo, Walter, 266n131
Milner, Yeshimabeit, 159, 274n40
mitigation, 149, 184, 199, 222, 224
Mol, Annemarie, 259n68
monitoring, 41, 62, 78, 80, 97, 105, 129, 132, 165, 175, 177, 211; air-pollution, 2, 13, 19, 45, 62, 71, 75, 100, 103, 120, 123, 128, 141–42, 145, 147, 149, 151, 205, 243; air-quality, 23, 33, 100, 137, 138, 150, 169, 171, 173, 178, 184, 197, 198; approach to, 112; citizen-led, 13, 117, 120, 136, 142, 145, 150, 189, 227; citizen-sensing, 91, 176; community, 44, 75, 80, 126, 132; digital, 3, 35, 38; DIY, 150, 169; experimenting with, 81; noise, 171; off-the-shelf, 37, 166; potentialities of, 143; protocols for, 44, 45, 76, 126; quantitative, 112, 210; speculative, 138; tests, 20, 80–81
monitoring stations, 43, 44, 100, 171, 172, 173
monitoring walks, 59 (fig.), 75
Moor Lane pop-up garden, 219, 234, 235 (fig.)
more-than-human worlds, cultivating, 216–17, 219, 221–22, 224, 226–29
more-than-humans, 22, 104, 208, 217, 238; environmental relations and, 215; reworking, 215
multiple citizens, 205; political work of, 213, 215–16; sensing, 209–13, 215–16
Museum of London, 204, 205, 206, 216, 224, 226, 228, 230, 232, 236, 237; air-quality garden at, 217, 219, 223 (fig.)
Nationally Significant Infrastructure Project, 162
Natural History Museum (London), 219
Nelson, Alondra, 10, 89, 256n32, 274n37
networks, 132; air-quality, 100, 112; building, 73–78, 80–82, 84–85, 86; monitoring, 77, 80, 82, 86, 150, 166, 216; technology, 126
neurological diseases, 169
New Cross, 58, 59 (fig.), 150, 160, 162, 163, 168, 169; air-pollution sources in, 181 (fig.); citizen sensing in, 183
New Milford, 138
NGOs, 29, 58, 97, 117, 118, 267n5
nitrogen dioxide, 60, 61, 124, 221, 237, 269n48; levels of, 226; monitoring, 33, 35, 54, 55, 162; sensing, 54
nitrogen oxide, 13, 62, 78, 99, 102, 124, 149, 222, 227; capturing, 234; detecting, 58
noncitizens, 9, 10, 256n30, 282n6
Old Kent Road, 161 (fig.)
Old Tidemill Wildlife Garden, 179, 182 (fig.), 183, 186, 276n79
open air, 4, 43, 51, 75, 86, 137, 158, 208, 229–30, 239, 248, 254n12, 254n13; concept of, 68; lived experiences and, 68
open-air instrumentalism, 22, 31, 37, 43, 45, 60, 62, 64, 69, 71, 72, 73, 86, 88, 89–90, 91, 102, 104, 105, 128, 129, 137, 141, 143, 160, 211, 273n32, 277n92; described, 32–33; generating, 57, 66, 142; mobilization of, 196; multi-agential, 67; practice of, 248; rights and, 157; understanding, 50
O’Reilly guidebook, 48, 51, 60
organisms, 143, 213, 237, 238; bioindicating, 211; epiphytic, 212; material transformations of, 210; more-than-human, 207, 246; multiple, 209, 211, 238; pollution through, 210; transforming, 209, 210, 222; otherwise thought/practice, 18, 230
ozone, 13, 78, 102, 124, 149, 211, 222, 269n48
Pachube, 62
Parisi, Luciana, 72
particulate matter, 13, 16, 60, 99, 102, 149, 171, 269n48; monitoring, 58, 133, 135, 169; trapping, 222, 234
Peabody Housing Association, 183
Peirce, Charles Sanders, 76, 264n104, 266n121
Pennsylvania Alliance for Clean Water and Air, 115
Pennsylvania Data Stories, 137
Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), 108, 136, 138
Pennsylvania Department of Health, 136
Photovac 2020PRO Photoionization Detector, 117
phyto-sensing process, 232
Phyto-Sensor Toolkit, 201 (fig.), 205, 206 (fig.), 208, 209, 217, 222, 224, 228, 229, 240 (fig.), 280n49; aerating, 230, 232, 234, 237–38; development of, 230, 232
phytosociological associations, 210–13
Pidot, Justin, 272n21
pipelines, 130 (fig.); construction of, 1, 2, 246; leaks, brochures/guidebooks for detecting/reporting, 121 (fig.)
plants, 203; air-quality, 205, 217, 219, 226–27, 231 (fig.), 232, 234; anthropomorphizing, 280n39; engagement with, 227; health and, 237
platforms, 33, 37, 42, 43, 45, 48, 53, 54, 57, 60, 62, 117, 134, 135 (fig.), 175, 243 (fig.); data, 1, 9, 28, 50, 62, 74, 104, 132, 136–37, 248; online, 126, 151
Plume Labs, 71
pluralism, 11, 84, 239, 257n37, 282n75; engaged, 241; worlds and, 281n69
pluriverse, 266n131; makeverse and, 82, 84–85
political change, 3, 21, 30, 67, 120
political engagement, 21, 31, 37, 46, 71, 105, 106, 152, 156, 157, 189, 198, 208, 212, 213, 217, 248, 249, 250; citizenship and, 10; digital technology and, 9, 11; forms of, 10, 90; transformation of, 9, 102
political subjects, 7, 11, 65, 158, 208, 212, 241, 245; pluralistic formations of, 8; reworking, 216
politics, 6, 28–29, 45, 73, 77, 82, 85, 86, 89, 90, 123, 139, 141, 249, 250; citizenship and, 10; collective, 46, 87; environmental, 61, 142, 145; evidence-based, 64; Indigenous, 84; network of, 76; off-the-shelf, 57; practices and, 84; transformation of, 72
pollution, 2, 41, 61, 81, 82, 106, 110, 112, 123, 139, 154, 177, 180, 190, 199, 207, 208, 211, 212, 216, 228, 239, 246; addressing, 46, 47, 51, 60, 64, 75, 89, 126, 129, 137, 145, 149, 183, 205, 209, 222; complaints about, 75; concentration of, 145, 226; detecting, 60, 173; digital, 205; documenting, 97, 114, 131–32, 142; dust, 162; environmental, 3, 5, 10, 13, 18, 22, 31, 37, 67, 73, 77, 78, 80, 81, 85, 86, 89, 97, 102, 104, 117, 129, 160, 197, 205, 207, 209, 210, 213, 222; establishing facts of, 114–15; evidencing, 143; experiences of, 51, 105, 137, 238; exposures to, 13, 100, 184; facts of, 102, 104, 115, 142; fracking-related, 60, 95, 105, 118, 124, 131; impact of, 85, 104, 110, 195, 209, 210; limits of, 151; monitoring, 37, 44, 78, 80, 91, 105, 117, 149, 165; observing, 211; patterns of, 129, 137, 176, 191; petroleum and, 124; problems with, 136, 238; regulatory approaches to, 100; sensing, 55, 106, 115, 117–18, 120, 123, 143, 205, 207; soil, 2, 80; sources of, 75, 176, 177, 189; studying, 97, 128; urban, 183; vegetal, 205; vehicle-based, 193. See also air pollution
pollution levels, 2, 35, 134, 138, 149, 180, 184, 227, 234; evidence of, 151; measuring, 42
post-traumatic stress disorder, 115
Povinelli, Elizabeth, 46
power, 26, 249; expressions of, 139, 257n37; imbalances, 248; particulates and, 16
practices: citizen-sensing, 3, 12, 13, 19, 20, 30, 61, 63, 64, 70, 76, 97, 100, 103, 110, 112, 115, 117, 120, 128, 129, 138, 141, 150, 155, 157, 158, 175, 187, 208, 238, 239; citizenship, 11, 18, 19, 188, 250; collective, 64, 177; data, 156, 157; Indigenous, 84; knowledge-making, 66; monitoring, 20, 80, 100, 102, 104, 112, 120, 123, 134, 138, 141, 150, 152; scientific, 62, 63, 89; social, 139, 275n63; speculative, 103–6, 142
pragmatism, 19, 67, 68, 87, 90, 139, 265n113, 274n34, 276n85, 277n103; rationalism and, 273n30
Pritchard, Helen, 276n84
Program Earth, 17, 51, 260n17, 272n13, 275n64
protests, 2, 9, 15, 150, 159, 184, 186 (fig.), 191, 195, 248
Protocol on Pollutant Release and Transfer Registers, 273n23
PuffTrones, 64
pulmonary disease, 114
PurpleAir sensors, 58, 145, 150
Rankine, Claudia, 188
Raspberry Pi microcontroller, 61
Ratto, Matthew, 49
Reardon, Jenny, 66
reciprocity, 4, 17, 207, 213, 228, 230, 239, 241, 273n29, 278n15
regulators, 2, 11, 13, 20, 75, 97, 106, 126, 129, 131, 134, 136, 187, 188, 210; environmental, 137, 139, 141
relations, 63, 91, 128, 211; action and, 87; cultural, 65, 66; ecological, 212; environmental, 4, 8, 31, 85, 215, 238, 239, 241; expert-citizen, 86; instrumental, 32; integrities of, 77; material, 66, 274n52; more-than-human, 205; pluralistic, 85, 143; political, 4, 32, 274n52; power, 139; sensing, 205; social, 65, 89; sociopolitical, 85, 189; technical, 90
research, 85, 112, 126; air pollution, 141; air-quality, 217; citizen-sensing, 21, 46; collective, 7, 78; decolonizing, 86; designs, 81; energy, 110; environmental science, 124; fracking-based, 171, 175; practice-based, 21, 22, 28, 31, 57, 123, 142; social, 19; speculative, 129. See also collaboration
resistance, 43, 62; testing, 85–87
retooling, 33, 62, 66, 67, 70, 88, 91, 102, 260n19; term, 89
right-to, as how-to, 156–60
rights, 155–56, 158, 159, 166, 187; citizen data and, 159; environmental, 159; instruments and, 158; open-air instrumentalism and, 157; reinventing, 178, 195–99; right to have, 277n101
Russ, Joanna, 28
Safecast development sensors, 2
Sampaio da Silva, Delaine, 212
Sapp, Jan, 211
Save Reginald! Save Tidemill! campaigners, 185 (fig.)
Schmitt, Carl, 255n23, 266n131
science, 19, 62, 64, 142, 153; atmospheric, 248; citizen, 6, 75, 254n16; civic, 254n16; community, 6, 8; environmental, 124; incomplete, 269n39; people’s, 63; social studies of, 16; undone, 269n39. See also technoscience
Seeed Studio, 49
SELCHP. See South East London Combined Heat and Power
sensing: breathing and, 17–18; digital, 51; DIY, 46; environmental, 106, 141, 143, 203, 211, 238, 239, 240, 246; more-than-human, 23, 205, 207, 209, 210, 212, 213, 222, 239; pollution, 43; trajectories of, 226; vegetal, 209, 213
sensing citizens, 3, 5, 27, 53, 250
sensor kits, list of, 35–38
sensors, 9, 13, 31, 40, 41, 71, 88, 90, 132, 143, 169, 197; air-pollution, 49, 51, 77; air-quality, 37–38, 56 (fig.), 58, 60, 62, 126, 127, 227; building, 42, 45, 46, 61, 85; citizen, 11, 48, 156, 205, 216, 226; connecting, 45–51, 53–55, 57–58, 60–63, 74–75; described, 27, 28; digital, 2, 3, 75, 203, 205, 209, 224, 226, 237; DIY, 6, 35, 36, 37, 45, 46, 69; environmental, 29, 30, 37, 64, 100, 120, 203, 227, 248; humidity, 36; installing, 48, 62–63; low-cost, 35, 124; metal oxide, 43, 54; moisture, 3536; more-than-human, 227, 228, 238; off-the-shelf, 48, 51, 57, 58, 62; particulate-matter, 69, 75, 147 (fig.); plug-and- play, 37, 58; prototype, 58, 60–65; temperature, 36, 48; using, 41–42, 43, 45, 126; vegetal, 222, 224, 226, 228, 237
Shale Test, 118
Sharpe, Christina, 15, 99, 267n9
Shinyei particle sensors, 56 (fig.), 169
silverbush (Convolvululs cneorum), 227
Simondon, Gilbert, 30, 49, 68, 72, 73, 211, 260n11, 263n82, 279n20; instruments and, 41, 65, 70; technical objects and, 65–66
Simpson, Leanne Betasamosake, 17, 77, 280n38, 282n7, 282n76; on engagement, 266n125; Indigenous knowledge/practices and, 84; on nationhood, 215
Singh, Julietta, 49
Sioux (Dakota and Lakota) Nation, 2
Sloterdijk, Peter, 258n45, 258n50, 265n109
Smart Citizen Kit, building/setting up, 38 (fig.)
Smith, Linda Tuhiwai, 20
snowberry (Symphoricarpos albus), 222
social conditions, 6, 18, 65, 85, 156, 189
social media, 33, 75, 132, 155, 165, 184
sociality, more-than-human, 212, 213, 238
South East London, 6, 53, 150, 151, 158, 160, 162, 166, 171, 178, 192, 195, 216, 217, 219; development in, 22
South East London Combined Heat and Power (SELCHP), 191; incinerator, 192 (fig.)
Speck monitors, 56 (fig.), 124, 134, 136, 270n63; setting up, 132, 133 (fig.), 135 (fig.), PL2; workshop by, 127 (fig.)
speculative citizens, 5, 36, 102, 104, 105–6, 123, 137, 138, 139, 141, 142, 143, 145, 155
Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty, 77, 273n26
Square Mile of London, 203, 219, 230, 232
Stengers, Isabelle, 261n34, 269n47, 269n74; cosmopolitics and, 279n32; empowerment and, 88
Strasser, Anita, 274n49
Strategic Air Quality Programme, 193
sulfur dioxide, 13, 149, 211, 269n48
summa cannisters, 117
surveillance systems, DIY, 33
Surviving Regeneration, 160
Sustrans, 191
Sze, Julie, 16
TallBear, Kim, 215
Tarde, Gabriel, 65
Tauber, Alfred, 211
technology, 1, 41, 44, 48, 51, 62, 65, 78, 88, 91, 134, 149, 178, 248; accessible, 29; assembling, 47; black-boxed, 61; breathing, 150; bridge, 97; citizen-sensing, 5, 11, 12, 13, 19, 20, 22, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 35, 46, 57, 58, 63, 67, 71, 72, 73, 75, 76, 86, 87, 102, 112, 129, 141, 153, 180, 184, 191; data, 6, 152; democracy and, 266–67n148; digital, 152, 155; DIY, 33, 85, 89; engagement with, 2, 112; environmental, 3, 17, 60, 61; fracking, 109, 110; human relations with, 68; monitoring, 3, 35, 61, 68, 90, 100, 110, 120, 155, 235; off-the-shelf, 7, 45; open, 21, 32, 260n17; potentials/pitfalls of, 46; prototype, 37; retooling, 70; sensing, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 17, 18, 21, 22, 31, 38, 40, 57, 71, 75, 123, 142, 151, 239, 245, 249; social-media, 155; studies, 16, 19, 64, 263n83, 278n4; transformation of, 72, 89; understandings of, 49; wearable, 153
technoscience, 29, 74, 261n34, 276n84; feminist, 32, 70, 85, 89, 90, 230, 279n16
Tennessee Transmission Pipeline, 97, 129
Tenth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, 154
Thames Tideway Super Sewer, 162, 165, 171, 173, 186, 187, 188 (fig.), 275n59
3D Activist Cookbook, 89
toolkits, 7, 19, 21, 25, 29, 31, 57, 62, 64, 65, 66, 72, 73, 82, 87, 88, 137, 143, 157, 201 (fig.), 228, 229, 232, 240, 260n7, 261n36, 266n148; air-quality, 36, 40, 58; assembling, 33, 35, 38–39, 40–44, 45, 47, 74–75, 77, 78, 85; citizen-sensing, 36, 38, 43, 44, 51, 60, 61, 70, 76, 77, 81, 89, 102, 106, 141, 154; described, 40–41, 42–43; digital, 75, 154; environmental sensing, 126, 249; expansion of, 45, 80; monitoring, 20, 81, 120, 128; off-the-shelf, 37; online, 222; open-air, 20, 126, 229–30, 232, 234, 237– 39; retooling, 88; sensor, 39, 41, 42–43, 62
traffic camera, 161 (fig.)
traffic congestion, 13, 99, 114, 141, 162, 221
transformation, 18, 39, 89, 90, 91, 158; how-to and, 87; inquiry and, 77; political, 72; site of, 32
Transport for London (TFL), 191
transportation, 150, 178, 191, 196, 217; experiments, 216; transforming, 190
tree-planting initiatives, 229; guide for, 194 (fig.)
Trigg, Randall, 262n62
troubleshooting, 8, 27, 37, 45, 50, 55, 136, 173
UK Environment Agency, 176, 275n59
UN Special Rapporteur, focus of, 271n7
unbreathability, 195, 239, 258n50; conditions of, 18, 189; weather of, 15
urban environment, 157, 183, 241; changes in, 22, 162; cultivation of, 237; shaping, 178
urban worlds, citizen data and, 189–91, 193, 195
US Energy Policy Act (2005), 100
US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), 138, 257n38, 268n14; monitors, 88 (fig.), 269n48
vegetation, 22, 35, 36, 154, 203, 205, 219, 224, 227, 229, 237, 239, 282n74; air-quality, 217; benefit of, 234; focus on, 217; role of, 216
Vigilante, 272n16
violence, 18, 241; air pollution and, 16; environmental, 14, 258n50; police, 258n49
Viveiros de Castro, Eduardo, 279n30
volatile organic compounds (VOCs), 13, 62, 95, 99, 102, 114, 118, 124, 138, 149; detection of, 117; devices for measuring, 116 (fig.)
water: contaminated, 114; drinking, 110; monitoring, 2, 100, 102; toxic, 162
water pollution, 2, 80, 139, 165; fracking and, 102, 110
Water Protectors, 1
Wenzel, Jennifer, 215
West, Cornel, 32, 86, 139, 277n103, 278n6
Whitehead, Alfred North, 66, 259n66, 263n90, 269n47, 275n64, 280n40; cosmology and, 39, 261n33; instruments and, 70; open air and, 254n13; on science/instruments, 62
WHO. See World Health Organization
“Why Plants Can Help Improve Air Quality” (pamphlet), 219
Whyte, Kyle Powys, 261n32
Winschuh, Chuck, 136
Winschuh, Janis, 136
World Health Organization (WHO), 95, 177, 178–79, 180, 195, 196, 226, 257n42; air pollution and, 12, 99; guidelines from, 149, 271n2
world making, 19, 210–13, 241, 254n11
worlds: in-forming/re-constituting, 90; making/remaking, 9, 155–56, 199; multiplication of, 11, 239; openness to, 207. See also breathable worlds; more-than-human worlds; urban worlds
Worshipful Company of Barber Surgeons, 281n66
Wottrich, Nancy, 131
Wretched of the Earth (Fanon), 215
Wynter, Sylvia, 10, 256n35, 279n20
Wythoff, Grant, 265n123
Xively platform, 53, 54, 57, 62
yarrow (Achillea millefolium), 224, 280n49
yew (Taxus baccata), 222, 280n49
Yusoff, Kathryn, 256n24