Air Pollution Governance: Sites, Styles, Histories

Session Submission Type: Open Panel

Abstract

This panel brings together researchers focused on ways air pollution has been governed in different contexts. In keeping with recent sensibilities in the literature, this panel takes governance to include both state as well as a wide array of non-state actors, with a particular interest in understanding the various roles that techno-scientific communities across varied contexts play in governance processes. The panel therefore invites reflections on a broad range of topics: presentations can focus on different kinds of air pollution (indoor or outdoor), and on different scales of governance — for example, the development of national laws, urban planning initiatives, or citizen mobilization against a particular polluting facility. Presentations will also vary in where they focus on the source-to-impact continuum, possibly examining, for example, the thought styles of air pollution scientists, the public relations strategies of polluting corporations, or ways nurses come to understand and treat respiratory problems associated with air pollution. Other topics of interest include science-to-policy pathways, new data collection and visualization practices, air pollution education, and environmental injustice. The panel includes research and researchers based in settings around the world, helping advance TRANSnational STS by developing a nuanced and comparative understanding of governance styles across different historical and cultural settings.

Sub Unit

• Papers for Open Panels / Air pollution governance: Histories, sites, styles

Chair

• Aalok Khandekar, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad

Discussant

• Soraya Boudia, University Paris Descartes

Individual Presentations

• Air Pollution Governance in 6+ Cities - Aalok Khandekar, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad; Kim Fortun, University of California Irvine

• Breathing in Delhi's Peripheries - Rohit Negi, School of Human Ecology, Ambedkar University Delhi; Prerna Srigyan, Ambedkar University Delhi

• The Invisible Infrastructures of the Smog. Technical Standardisation and Data Infrastructure in Air Pollution Measurement (the Case of Poland) - Michał Wróblewski, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland

• The Role of Transboundary Air Pollution Research in the Making of the South Korean Regulatory Regime - Chuyoung Won, Seoul National University

• Scientific Expertise And Public Action. Governing The Air Pollution Problem In Paris. - Justyna Barbara Moizard-Lanvin, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales. Centre de recherche médecine, science, santé et sociét

• The Challenge of Air Pollution Governance: The Case of Taiwan - Wen-Ling Tu, National Chengchi University

Session Organizer

• Kim Fortun, University of California Irvine