Ways of Breathing and Knowing

Nasima Selim is a Professor of Public Anthropology at the University of Bremen and Adjunct Professor at the James P Grant School of Public Health, Brac University.Judith Albrecht is an Elisabeth Liszt Senior Fellow at the University of Graz and a senior researcher at Webster Vienna.

• An Introduction Nasima Selim and Judith Albrecht Part I. Breathing as an Ethnographic Register and Empirical Matter 1 Breathing in and out of Court as a Spirometric Moment: Tracking Epistemic Violence through Ethnographic Respiration Judith Albrecht 2 “I wanna breathe like you, these streets are mine too”: The Colonial-Capitalist Breathing Heritage of Everyday Life in Southeast London Franca Marquardt 3 “It is becoming difficult to breathe in there”: Queer-Trans-Feminist Encounters with Breath/ing in a University Campus of India Uddipta Roy Part II. Post/COVID-19 and Breathing Troubles 4 Air Hunger: Viral Atmospheres and the Siege of Breath Malini Sur 5 “Tuachiwe Tupumuwe!” (Let us breathe): Decolonizing COVID-19, Suffocating Sovereignty, and Rest-less Respiration in Tanzania, Zanzibar Franziska Fay 6 The Politics of Breathing Troubles in COVID-19: Pandemic Inequalities and the Right to Breathe across India and Germany Nasima Selim Part III. Aesthetics and Poetics of Air and Breath 7 Sour Wind Megan J. Gette 8 Aria to APNEA: The Airs of Doing in Opera Maribeth Diggle 9 Breathing in the Web(s) of Life: Tomás Saraceno on the Practices and Poetics of Aerocene Viola Castellano Part IV. Aerial, Atmospheric, and Respiratory Politics 10 Breath as Grammar: The Politics and Poetics of Breath and Black Experience Melody Howse 11 Burning Lungs: The Atmopolitics of Wildfires in Indigenous Canada Marijn Nieuwenhuis I N H A L E: A commentary Sana Chavoshian