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Lively Cities - Reconfiguring Urban Ecology (Paperback)
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Lively Cities - Reconfiguring Urban Ecology (Paperback)
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A journey through unexplored spaces that foreground new ways of
inhabiting the urban  One of the fundamental dimensions of
urbanization is its radical transformation of nature. Today
domestic animals make up more than twice the biomass of people on
the planet, and cities are replete with nonhuman life. Yet current
accounts of the urban remain resolutely anthropocentric. Lively
Cities departs from conventions of urban studies to argue that
cities are lived achievements forged by a multitude of entities,
drawing attention to a suite of beings—human and nonhuman—that
make up the material politics of city making. From macaques and
cattle in Delhi to the invasive parakeet colonies in London, Maan
Barua examines the rhythms, paths, and agency of nonhumans across
the city. He reconceptualizes several key themes in urban thought,
including infrastructure, the built environment, design,
habitation, and everyday practices of dwelling and provides a
critical intervention in animal and urban studies. Generating fresh
conversations between posthumanism, postcolonialism, and political
economy, Barua reveals how human and nonhuman actors shape,
integrate, subsume, and relate to urban space in fascinating ways.
Through novel combinations of ethnography and ethology, and
focusing on interlocutors that are not the usual suspects animating
urban theory, Barua’s work considers nonhuman lifeworlds and the
differences they make in understanding urbanicity. Lively Cities is
an agenda-setting intervention, ultimately proposing a new grammar
of urban life.
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