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    "pk": 42191,
    "title": "Breathing the City: Aerial Imaginations of the Urban in Northern India",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "How do airy materials constitute the urban? This is an anthropological question that has been of interest to me as I teach in a university campus in Northern India. Surrounded by agricultural fields and national highways, the campus is at least 60 km from the city of Delhi—infamous as the most polluted place in the world. My ability to notice how air pollution constituted Delhi peaked during a lecture with undergraduate students in late October 2019, when I was informed that they were being forced to sit in the bad air in my classroom because the student body’s request to cancel classes on account of air pollution had been denied. This moment has remained etched in my memory as it led to a long conversation in class about what it means to live with air through breath. Since Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence is a residential university, I wondered how air quality was constituting how students related to living on campus. In acknowledging the agentive quality of air, I use this vignette and the conversation that followed to think through how air simultaneously constitutes the urban/rural divide and dissolves it, thus reformulating our relationship to the urban.",
    "language": "en",
    "license": {
        "name": "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial  4.0",
        "short_name": "CC BY-NC 4.0",
        "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\n\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\n\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.",
        "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0"
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "air"
        },
        {
            "word": "breath"
        },
        {
            "word": "urban/rural atmospheres"
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        {
            "word": "Delhi"
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        {
            "word": "India"
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    "section": "Commentaries",
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        {
            "first_name": "Vasundhara",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Bhojvaid",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence.",
            "department": "None"
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": "2023-08-28T07:19:47Z",
    "date_accepted": "2023-08-28T07:19:47Z",
    "date_published": "2024-07-31T07:00:00Z",
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