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Lively cities : reconfiguring urban ecology / Maan Barua.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2023Description: 372 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781517912567 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 307.126 BAR 23 022924
Contents:
A Minor Ecology of Infrastructure -- The Politics of Commensality -- Lively Capital and Recombinant Urbanisms -- The Micropolitics of Ferality -- Pastoral Formations -- Surplus Ecologies.
Summary: "Lively Cities departs from conventions of urban studies to argue that cities are lived achievements forged by a multitude of entities-human and nonhuman-that make up the material politics of city making. Generating fresh conversations between posthumanism, postcolonialism, and political economy, Barua reveals how these actors shape, integrate, subsume, and relate to urban space in fascinating ways"--
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

A Minor Ecology of Infrastructure -- The Politics of Commensality -- Lively Capital and Recombinant Urbanisms -- The Micropolitics of Ferality -- Pastoral Formations -- Surplus Ecologies.

"Lively Cities departs from conventions of urban studies to argue that cities are lived achievements forged by a multitude of entities-human and nonhuman-that make up the material politics of city making. Generating fresh conversations between posthumanism, postcolonialism, and political economy, Barua reveals how these actors shape, integrate, subsume, and relate to urban space in fascinating ways"--

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