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  • Urban Natures: Living the More-than-Human City

    Urban Natures by Edwards, Ferne; Alexandra Popartan, Lucia; Pettersen, Ida Nilstad;

    Living the More-than-Human City

    Series: Urban Anthropology Unbound; 1;

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    Product details:

    • Edition number 1
    • Publisher Berghahn Books
    • Date of Publication 15 September 2023
    • Number of Volumes Print PDF

    • ISBN 9781805390824
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages356 pages
    • Size 229x152 mm
    • Language English
    • 884

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    Short description:

    Urban Natures explores the diversity, abundance, and impact of the conventional and future framings of urban natures. Recognizing a green resurgence in cities is underway, this volume applies a critical approach to examine urban greening histories, politics, discourses and ecologies

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    Long description:

    Efforts to create greener urban spaces have historically taken many forms, often disorganized and undisciplined. Recently, however, the push towards greener cities has evolved into a more cohesive movement. Drawing from multidisciplinary case studies, Urban Natures examines the possibilities of an ethical lively multi-species city with the understanding that humanity’s relationship to nature is politically constructed. Covering a wide range of sectors, cities, and urban spaces, as well as topics ranging from edible cities to issues of power, and more-than-human methodologies, this volume pushes our imagination of a green urban future.

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    Table of Contents:

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    List of Illustrations and Tables
    List of Abbreviations
    Glossary of Key Terms
    Acknowledgements

    Preface
    Ferne Edwards

    Introduction: Mapping the Multispecies City in Theory, Methods and Practice
    Ferne Edwards, Lucia Alexandra Popartan and Ida Nilstad Pettersen

    Part I: Making Visible Diverse Urban Natures

    Chapter 1. Life After Dark: Multispecies Encounters in the Nocturnal City
    Nick Dunn

    Chapter 2. Making Urban Nature Visible (With a Focus on Insects)
    Ferne Edwards

    Chapter 3. Let the City Walls Go Wild: Finding Safety in Urban Edgelands
    Hannah Cowan and Sam Knight

    Chapter 4. A Bear and Those Things Beneath my Knees: Nature in Settler-Colonial Los Angeles
    Chima Michael Anyadike-Danes

    Chapter 5. East End Jam: A Multi-Sensory Urban Foraging Artwork
    Clare Qualmann and Amy Vogel

    Chapter 6. Illuminating the Worlds We Produce: A Reflexive Approach to Urban Natures Research
    Lisa de Kleyn, Brian Coffey and Judy Bush

    Part II: (Re)Connecting Urban Natures

    Chapter 7. Layering Identity, Place and Be-longing Between Nature and Urbanity
    Tracey M. Benson

    Chapter 8. A ‘Democracy of Compost’: Neo-materialist Encounters in Urban Spaces
    Monique Wing and Emma L. Sharp
    This chapter is available Open Access with support from the Food, Food Production and Nutrition Research Network in the Faculty of Science, University of Auckland

    Chapter 9. Caring for Foxes at a London Allotment: Tales from a Contested Interspecies Playground
    Jan van Duppen

    Chapter 10. Relational Growing: Reimagining Contemporary Aboriginal Agriculture in Colonialized Cityscapes
    Dominique Chen

    Chapter 11. ‘War on Weeds’: On Fighting and Caring for Native Nature in Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand
    Jeannine-Madeleine Fischer

    Chapter 12. Designing with Bees: Integrating More-than-Human Knowledges in Brussels’ Cityscapes
    Jolein Bergers, Bruno Notteboom and Viviana d’Auria

    Part II: Politicizing Urban Natures

    Chapter 13. Reducing Vulnerability Through Gardening? The Mobilization of Urban Natures during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Port Vila, Vanuatu
    Andrew McKenzie and Ginny Stein

    Chapter 14. ‘I don’t care about tomatoes’: Building Situated Urban Commons in Girona
    Lucia Alexandra Popartan, Josep Pueyo, Enric Cassú, Richard Pointelin, Joana Castellar, Joaquim Comas

    Chapter 15. Urban Fog Oasis Conservation: Endangerment, Invasiones and Informal Urbanization in Lima
    Chakad Ojani

    Chapter 16. Haunting Natures: The Politics of Green Reparations in Baltimore, MD
    Mariya Shcheglovitova and JH Pitas

    Chapter 17. Urban Trees as ‘Furniture’? The More-than-Human Politics of Moving Gothenburg’s Mature Trees
    Mathilda Rosengren

    Chapter 18. ‘There’s a Strong Green Wind Blowing’. Drawing the Politics of Street Trees in Practice
    Hanne Cecilie Geirbo and Ida Nilstad Pettersen
    This chapter is available Open Access with support from Oslo Metropolitan University.

    Conclusion: Reflections and Future Directions for Researching Urban Natures
    Ferne Edwards

    Index

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