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This preliminary research aims to combine analysis of mass media coverage with investigation of air quality stakeholders in England to provide insights into facets of the COVID-19 crisis that have the potential (in the short and longer term) to reconfigure, at national and local scales, a politics of air pollution.<\/p>\n<div class=\"linkbox\">Further reading:<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/socialsciences.exeter.ac.uk\/sociology\/staff\/cassidy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Link<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Angela Cassidy and Karen Bickerstaff In the UK, air pollution has been repeatedly invoked in debate around the COVID-19 pandemic: during a time of suddenly reduced mobility, heavily polluted city air has cleared, making visible a previously invisible problem; links are also being drawn between exposure to air pollution, inequality and poor outcomes from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3089,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[25,53,209,251,361,369],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Something in the air: COVID-19 and the politics of pollution (Angela Cassidy and Karen Bickerstaff) - Exploring Society with COVID-19<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/covidsociety\/2020\/06\/07\/something-in-the-air-covid-19-and-the-politics-of-pollution-angela-cassidy-and-karen-bickerstaff\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Something in the air: COVID-19 and the politics of pollution (Angela Cassidy and Karen Bickerstaff) - Exploring Society with COVID-19\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"By Angela Cassidy and Karen Bickerstaff In the UK, air pollution has been repeatedly invoked in debate around the COVID-19 pandemic: during a time of suddenly reduced mobility, heavily polluted city air has cleared, making visible a previously invisible problem; 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