Atmospheric Citizens: How to Make Breathable Worlds

online lecture by professor Jennifer Gabrys

The series of seminars 'Action, Climate, Crisis: Anthropological tales in times of climate change' brings scholars working on climate and environmental crisis to Amsterdam to engage with UvA anthropologists. The seminars will address urgent epistemological, methodological and political challenges that we face, as we conduct research in time of climate crisis.

Date: 23 March 2023
Time: 15:00 -17:00

The upcoming seminar on March 23, hosts a lecture by Jennifer Gabrys about her most recent book, Atmospheric Citizens: How to Make Breathable Worlds.

Access to the book introduction

About Jennifer Gabrys

Jennifer Gabrys is Chair in Media, Culture and Environment in the Department of Sociology at the University of Cambridge. She is leading the Planetary Praxis research group, and is Principal Investigator on the ERC-funded project, Smart Forests: Transforming Environments into Social-Political Technologies, which launched the research platform Smart Forests Atlas in 2022.

Gabrys also leads the Citizen Sense and AirKit projects, which investigate the use of environmental sensors for new modes of citizen involvement in environmental issues. Both of these projects have received funding from the European Research Council.

She co-edits the “Planetarities” book series published through Goldsmiths Press; and is co-editor with Big Data & Society. She has co-edited a special issue on “Sensors and Sensing Practices,” with Science, Technology & Human Values (2019); and a special issue on “Environmental Data,” with Big Data & Society (2016). She is also co-editor of Accumulation: The Material Politics of Plastic (Routledge, 2013).