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17 March 2021 by urbanecologies 0
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Animals in cities

Urban Ecologies Writing Cities Animals in cities By Maan Barua 12 January, 2021 The urban is bustling with life. Cattle are being embroiled in conflicts over streets.  Dogs are emerging as public health concerns.  Macaques contest what it means to be a denizen.  A body of work in geography and the wider social sciences is beginning to animate the city and is at the cusp of reworking urban theory.  These pose radical questions of urban habitus (Barua & Sinha, 2017), mobility (Lulka, 2013), economy (Hovorka, 2008), biopolitics (Howell, 2015) and planning (Metzger, 2014), not solely through the logics of modernity and design, but as co-fabrications between lively bodies and the built environment.  In an analogous vein, biologists are beginning to show how cities have become sites of evolution (Schilthuizen, 2019), ecologists signal the flourishing, even abundance, of life within built environments (Francis & Chadwick, 2012), and ethologists herald novel animal…

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13 March 2021 by urbanecologies 0
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Urban Ecologies Writing Cities Animals in cities By Maan Barua 12 January, 2021 Publication Information 1 The urban is bustling with life. Cattle are being embroiled in conflicts over streets.  Dogs are emerging as public health concerns.  Macaques contest what it means to be a denizen.  A body of work in geography and the wider social sciences is beginning to animate the city and is at the cusp of reworking urban theory.  These pose radical questions of urban habitus (Barua & Sinha, 2017), mobility (Lulka, 2013), economy (Hovorka, 2008), biopolitics (Howell, 2015) and planning (Metzger, 2014), not solely through the logics of modernity and design, but as co-fabrications between lively bodies and the built environment.  In an analogous vein, biologists are beginning to show how cities have become sites of evolution (Schilthuizen, 2019), ecologists signal the flourishing, even abundance, of life within built environments (Francis & Chadwick, 2012), and ethologists…

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"Cultivated, #Feral, #Wild: the #Urban as an Ecological Formation" - new paper from our project by @maanbarua and Anindya Sinha now out in @urbgeog! Argues that cities are lived achievements through four key themes. #UrbanEcologies (1/6).

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Ecologizing cities: material, metabolic & political life. Maan Barua's (@maanbarua) ERC Urban Ecologies project. @ERC_Research at @cambridge_uni & @NIAS_India

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26 Apr

"Cultivated, #Feral, #Wild: the #Urban as an Ecological Formation" - new paper from our project by @maanbarua and Anindya Sinha now out in @urbgeog! Argues that cities are lived achievements through four key themes. #UrbanEcologies (1/6).

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