Making Urban Environments: Infrastructures of Power, Resistance and Negotiation

Author:

,Dümpelmann Sonja1,Gioielli Robert R.2,Pauleit Stephan3,Sinha Anindya4,Wright Kate5,Zhang Amy6

Affiliation:

1. Full tenured professor at the University of Pennsylvania Weitzman School of Design. Her research and writing sit squarely within the environmental and urban humanities. She is the author and editor of several books, most recently the edited volume Landscapes for Sport: Histories of Physical Exercise, Sport, and Health (Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 2022) and the award-winning Seeing Trees: A History of Street Trees in New York City and Berlin (YUP, 2019). She lectures...

2. Professor of history and environmental studies at the University of Cincinnati Blue Ash College, where he also directs the college’s honors program. He is an urban and environmental historian, whose work focuses on the intersections of race and sustainability in twentieth century American cities. He is the author of Environmental Activism and the Urban Crisis: Baltimore, St. Louis, Chicago (Temple 2014) and articles in the Journal of Urban History, Radical History Review and numerous other venues....

3. Full professor for Strategic Landscape Planning and Management at the Technical University of Munich (TUM). He held positions at Wye College, the University of Manchester and the University of Copenhagen. Urban ecology, the planning and governance of green infrastructure and naturebased solutions, adaptation strategies to climate change in the urban environment, urban forestry and trees are his main areas of research. At present, Pauleit is the director of the ‘Centre for Urban Ecology and Climate...

4. Professor at the National Institute of Advanced Studies in Bangalore, India but holds adjunct faculty positions at ten other research and teaching institutions in India and the UK. Although his earlier research was in the fields of classical genetics, biochemical genetics and molecular biology, his primary research interests, over the last three decades, have been in animal behavioural ecology, cognitive ethology, evolutionary biology, population- and behavioural genetics and the applied philosophy...

5. Works at the interface of community-based social and environmental activism, and environmental humanities research. In this work, she engages with community research partners and with the environment and morethan-human communities to produce public-facing work that amplifies marginalised voices and knowledge practices. She is currently an affiliated researcher with the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society of the Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, while her first book Transdisciplinary...

6. Environmental anthropologist whose research investigates the intersection of ecology, technology, labor and urban life. Her forthcoming book project explores how waste infrastructures, materials and their technical interventions ground and condition the forms, possibilities and limits of China’s emerging urban environmental politics. Other writings have been published in Cultural Anthropology, Current Anthropology, China Perspectives, Made in China and edited volumes such as Can Science and...

Abstract

Abstract As scholars from the fields of history, anthropology and animal studies, as well as landscape planning and management, we discuss various forms of urban and urbanising infrastructures and their political entanglements. Questioning and illuminating how various actors and their practices build and shape urban environments, we address topics ranging from the black soldier fly - used as biotechnological infrastructure to manage waste - to other nonhumans, like macaques -developing and negotiating their own urbanisms; from plants and community gardens - used as green infrastructures to provide shade and food, and social infrastructures to endure and resist - to the transportation infrastructures that humans have built to both segregate and divide, as well as to live and unite. In case studies situated across the world, we present different conceptualisations of infrastructures as complex human-nonhuman co-productions that shape the modern city.

Publisher

Liverpool University Press

Subject

Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law,History,Global and Planetary Change

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