Urban Natures

Living the More-than-Human City

Ferne Edwards, Lucia Alexandra Popartan, Ida Nilstad Pettersen (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

356 Seiten

2023
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80539-082-4 (ISBN)

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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.

Ferne Edwards has conducted research on sustainable cities across Australia, Venezuela, Ireland, Spain, Norway and the UK. Her books include the edited volumes, Food for Degrowth: Perspectives and Practices and Food, Senses and the City (both Routledge, 2021), and the monograph, Food Resistance Movements: A Journey into Alternative Food Networks (Palgrave, 2023).

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

Erscheinungsdatum	22.08.2023
Reihe/Serie	Urban Anthropology Unbound
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
	Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei
ISBN-10	1-80539-082-1 / 1805390821
ISBN-13	978-1-80539-082-4 / 9781805390824
Zustand	Neuware