英文摘要 |
"Air pollution is an undeniable atmospheric phenomenon. Most publications about air pollution are concerned with human risk perception regarding pollution particles and energy transition in relation to the restructuring of the carbon economy. Less attention has been paid to the politics of air and wind on the one hand and the interactions between human and''three-dimensional, voluminous environment of air and wind''on the other hand. This paper aims to fill this gap. Inspired by Volume Geography scholars in general and environmental anthropologist Tim Ingold in particular, we argue that the politics of air pollution and wind needs to be understood in the context of the''weather-world''(the''comingling''of humans and the weather). Although wind as voluminous environment seems intangible, humans can still''feel''the wind via what we call''fluid volume thinking.''Three features of fluid volume thinking can be identified: (1) local experience and knowledge tends to be both bodily and intuitive, (2) people's daily thinking includes spatial directionality, and (3) people's daily life corresponds to the spatial and temporal''rhythm''of the mixture of sea, land and air. This kind of fluid volume thinking can explain how the temporal and spatial relationship between residents, the atmosphere, and factories is socially and politically constructed in the face of air pollution. Our theoretical framework is further empirically examined through the case of Dalinpu in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, a fenceline community surrounded by heavy industry factories where the first environmentalist movement successfully terminated an industrial zone project in the name of the preservation of wind." |