Barua, Maan
Lively Cities: Reconfiguring Urban Ecology
- ISBN 13:
- 9781517912567
- author:
- Barua, Maan
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2017
- Pages:
- 408
- Dimensions:
- 21.6 x 14 x 1.8 centimetres (0.5
- Genre:
- Science, Nature, Animals,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
Lively Cities reconfigures our understanding of urban ecology by exploring the complex relationships between humans and nonhuman entities in cities.
Maan Barua examines how animals, from macaques to cattle, and even invasive bird species like parakeets, shape the material politics of city-making. By focusing on the rhythms, paths, and agency of these nonhuman beings, Barua challenges conventional accounts of urban studies and proposes a new grammar of urban life.
This agenda-setting intervention draws on ethnography and ethology to reveal how human and nonhuman actors interact with and transform urban space in fascinating ways. Lively Cities offers a fresh perspective on the intersections of posthumanism, postcolonialism, and political economy, shedding light on the diverse lifeworlds that exist within cities.
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