Extreme air pollution events have become a regular phenomenon in Delhi, triggering conjunctions of air pollution and death popularly referred to as airpocalypse. The city’s collective reckoning with bad air raises the question of how social justice is to be imagined when the source of death is diffuse and leaky. The Indian judiciary has taken up this question in earnest, dispersing the legal treatment of life away from its historical focus on individuated life-beings and toward a more atmospheric domain of biological abstractions and vital circulations: aggregate lung capacity, collective asthmatic risk, and distributed body parts. Life in law is now monitored through air quality indexes and climatological reports as much as X-rays or electrocardiograms, making it something not just shaped by the environment but itself an environmental condition. Following judicial discourse stemming from key pollution-related court cases, this article examines how these new distributions of life transform urban citizenship, which has been grounded in India in the right to life. It argues that multiple political potentialities unfold once citizenship is no longer anchored exclusively in the sovereign self, with emergent forms of atmospheric citizenship resting on a humanist principle of atmospheric sharing while simultaneously sustaining logics of atmospheric segregation.

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空气启示录：德里污染空气中的生命分布

极端空气污染事件已成为德里的常见现象，引发了空气污染和死亡的结合，通常被称为空气末日。这座城市对恶劣空气的集体清算提出了一个问题，即当死亡的源头分散且漏水时，如何想象社会正义。印度司法部门认真对待这个问题，将生命的法律处理从历史上对个体生命的关注转移到更大气的生物抽象和生命循环领域：总肺活量、集体哮喘风险和分布式身体部位。现在，法律生活通过空气质量指数和气候报告以及 X 射线或心电图进行监测，使其不仅受到环境的影响，而且本身就是一种环境条件。根据与污染相关的主要法庭案件的司法论述，本文探讨了这些新的生活分布如何改变城市公民身份，而城市公民身份在印度的生命权已根深蒂固。它认为，一旦公民权不再完全锚定于主权自我，就会出现多种政治潜力，大气公民权的新兴形式基于大气共享的人文主义原则，同时维持大气隔离的逻辑。