Thinking with Urban Natures

Author:

Acosta Raúl1,Adedeji Joseph Adeniran2,Barua Maan3,Gandy Matthew4,Gora L. Sasha5,Schlichting Kara Murphy6

Affiliation:

1. (corresponding author) is a researcher at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany. He earned his doctoral degree from the University of Oxford and has worked in universities in Mexico, Spain, the United Kingdom and Germany. His anthropological work engages with activism, the environment and policymaking. He is currently finalising a manuscript on Mexico City cycloactivism. His most recent monograph is Civil Becomings: Performative Politics in the...

2. Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Fellow and associate professor of landscape architecture and urban design at the, Federal University of Technology, Akure, Nigeria. He researches on the intersection of urban open spaces, cultural morphology of cityscapes and landscape hermeneutics of the urban grain in an African context. His books include Ecological Urbanism of Yoruba cities in Nigeria: an Ecosystem Services Approach (Springer Nature, 2023), and Historic Urban Landscapes of Nigeria: Power and...

3. Works on the economies, ontologies and politics of the living and material world. His most recent research is on how cities are governed by regulating non-human life, a theme explored in his forthcoming book Lively Cities: Reconfiguring Urban Ecology (University of Minnesota Press, 2023). Maan is the PI on an ERC Horizon 2020 Starting Grant on urban ecologies and is a senior lecturer in geography at the University of Cambridge, UK.

4. Professor of geography at the University of Cambridge and an award-winning documentary filmmaker. His books include Concrete and Clay: Reworking Nature in New York City (MIT Press, 2002), The Return of the White Plague: Global Poverty and the ‘New’ Tuberculosis (Verso, 2003, co-editor), Urban Constellations (jovis, 2011, editor), The Acoustic City (jovis, 2014, co-editor), The Fabric of Space: Water, Modernity, and the Urban Imagination (MIT Press, 2014), Moth (Reaktion, 2016), The Botanical City ...

5. Writer and cultural historian with a focus on food studies, contemporary art and the environmental humanities. Her doctoral dissertation at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich chronicled the history of Indigenous restaurants in the lands now known as Canada, and received the 2021 Bavarian American Academy Dissertation Award. After fellowships at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (KWI), Essen, she joined the University of Augsburg in May 2023,...

6. Associate professor of history at Queens College, City University of New York. She earned her PhD from Rutgers University, New Jersey. Her work in late-nineteenth and twentieth-century American history sits at the intersection of urban, environmental and political history. Schlichting has published in the Environmental History, the Journal of Urban History and the Journal of Planning History and is the author of New York Recentered: Building the Metropolis from the Shore (University of Chicago Press...

Abstract

Abstract Since the Enlightenment, cities have been considered as exemplary spaces of human achievement. Technological developments and the constant reorganisation of materials and infrastructures have contributed to a widely shared conception of nature as something outside of urban areas. Our age, framed by the Anthropocene and the sixth wave of extinction, has shattered such vision. Novel reflections across the natural sciences, the arts and the humanities have chosen to focus on relational entanglements instead of separating the city from the environment. In this short collection, we offer a series of reflections about multiple urban natures that often remain unknown or concealed. Each of us does so from a unique disciplinary perspective, ranging from anthropology to history and geography over urban ecology, urban studies and landscape architecture. We hope to point towards a multidisciplinary articulation of urban nature as in itself diverse, complex and de-centred.

Publisher

Liverpool University Press

Subject

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

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