ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses what scholars have said about air pollution so far. Learning from early perception studies of communities made to suffer environmental harm to the popular non-fiction books that give a comprehensive transnational overview of science and politics of air, it asks: How are advocates, scientists, and the social sciences called upon to respond to the blindspots of air’s present? These questions guide the book’s turn towards examining the collaborative present with its attendant possibilities and dilemmas.
