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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

Jennifer Gabrys is Chair in Media, Culture, and Environment at the University of Cambridge. She is author of Program Earth: Environmental Sensing Technology and the Making of a Computational Planet (Minnesota, 2016).

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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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