Jay Owens on Dust

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Jay Owens has a book out at the end of the month which I'm very much looking forward to. It's called Dust; the Modern World in a Trillion Particles.

I'm interested to get my copy of this book at the end of August.

'Owens's pursuit of dust - defined very broadly as particles of a certain size, however generated - sends her tripping through many fascinating and rewarding realms . . . She's a superb travel writer, delivering with aplomb on her own idea of what geographers should be doing: Paying attention to tangible, material realities to ground our theoretical models in the world.' - Telegraph

Listen to Jay Owens on dust... a nice short listen on Radio 4's Four Thought:

Jay has spent years researching dust, and produces a popular newsletter on the subject. In this fascinating Four Thought, recorded at the Design Museum in London, she shares some stories from the field of dust research that up until now have only been known to other 'dust people', as she calls her fellow dust researchers.


Dust is also the subject of a book in the Bloomsbury Object Lessons series, which I've mentioned before and am a great fan of...

Jay studied for a Masters in ‘Modernity, Space and Place’ (Geography) at UCL - the same course my friend and mentor Claire Kyndt completed.

Steve Brace tweeted a link to a review of the book:

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