| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 328 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Experimental futures: technological lives, scientific arts, anthropological voices |
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Experimental futures.
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| Contents |
Forest Tracks -- Rubble -- Botanical Encounters -- Gardens -- Gardening the Ruins -- Parks -- Provisioning against Austerity -- Barbecue Area -- Forests -- Living in the Unheimlich -- Stories of the "Wild East" |
| Summary |
"In Ruderal City Bettina Stoetzer traces relationships among people, plants, and animals in contemporary Berlin as they make their lives in the ruins of European nationalism and capitalism. She develops the notion of the ruderal-originally an ecological designation for the unruly life that inhabits inhospitable environments such as rubble, roadsides, train tracks, and sidewalk cracks-to theorize Berlin as a "ruderal city." Stoetzer explores sites in and around Berlin that have figured in German national imaginaries-gardens, forests, parks, and rubble fields-to show how racial, class, and gender inequalities shape contestations over today's uses and knowledges of urban nature. Drawing on fieldwork with gardeners, botanists, migrant workers, refugees, public officials, and nature enthusiasts while charting human and more-than-human worlds, Stoetzer offers a wide-ranging ethnographic portrait of Berlin's postwar ecologies that reveals emergent futures in the margins of European cities. Brimming with stories that break down divides between environmental perspectives and the study of migration and racial politics, Berlin's ruderal worlds help us rethink the space of nature and culture and the categories through which we make sense of urban life in inhospitable times"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 14, 2022) |
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digitized 2023. HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Urban ecology (Sociology) -- Germany -- Berlin -- History
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Human ecology -- Germany -- Berlin -- History
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City and town life -- Germany -- Berlin -- History
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Nature and civilization -- Germany -- Berlin
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
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City and town life
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Human ecology
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Nature and civilization
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Urban ecology (Sociology)
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Germany -- Berlin
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2022026520 |
| ISBN |
9781478023203 |
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1478023201 |
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9781478093022 |
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1478093021 |
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