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Habitable Air

Pollution and Inequality in the Time of Climate Change

Edited by Kerry Ryan Chance

278 pages,

ISBN  978-1-80758-150-3 $135.00/£104.00 / Hb / Not Yet Published (December 2026)

eISBN 978-1-80758-151-0 eBook Not Yet Published


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Half a century after the civil rights era, struggles over air—what we breathe, the ways we know it, who governs it, and how to stake claims through it—have become central to science, politics, law, and the economy. This book explores the links among three urgent issues: rapid growth of urban inequality, amplification of political divisions in major democracies, and the increasing impact of pollution and global warming. It examines how communities on the margins of interconnected energy hubs navigate the social, cultural, and health consequences of air pollution, and how long-running battles over industrial toxicity are being reshaped as climate science becomes central to governance.

Kerry Ryan Chance is a Full Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Bergen in Norway, a Visiting Scholar at MIT in the United States, and a Marie Sklodowska Curie Fellow in France. She is the author of numerous articles and the book, Living Politics in South Africa's Urban Shacklands (2018, University of Chicago Press).

Subject: Anthropology (General)Environmental Studies (General)Urban StudiesSustainable Development Goals


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