Doing Airborne Exposure
a conference panel at EASST 2022 organised by WAVEMATTERS
What is in the air? With this question (and song), we started our panel entitled “Doing Airborne Exposure” during the biennial conference of the European Association of Science and Technology Studies (EASST) held in Madrid in early July 2022. Our aim was to gather and exchange ethnographic insights and to initiate a discussion on the sociopolitical as well as technoscientific practices of addressing health effects from invisible sources and stressors in the air. The wonderful panelists answered the question of the airborne and how it is socially performed quite differently, offering rich material for the discussant Ignacio Farías to respond, and for our joint discussion that followed the seven presentations.