Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (192 Seiten)
Additional Information:
Berlin : Gesellschaft für Ethnographie (GfE), Institut für Europäische Ethnologie der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 2024 ,87
DDC:
300
Keywords:
Zeitschrift
;
modern urbanism
;
urban landscapes
;
air pollution
;
soil pollution
;
climate crisis
;
urban anthropology
;
Sozialwissenschaften
;
Soziologie und Anthropologie
Abstract:
The Western world has traditionally viewed cities in opposition to the natural
elements, constructing modernist urban spaces to resist the forces of water,
air, fire, and earth. Today, urban societies are haunted again by the overflows and
burning presences of the elements they have tried to ban. In the face of ongoing
climate crises, social sciences and humanities often treat "nature" and natural
elements as urbanized, shaped by urban processes rather than influencing them.
How can urban anthropology develop a more integral perspective on the interaction
of cities and the elementals, one that acknowledges their vitality and
agency? An elemental urbanism positions cities as crucial sites in the so-called
critical zone, where bodily, conceptual and political attunements to the delicate
flows and interdependencies of planetary processes take shape.
Abstract:
Peer Reviewed
URN:
urn:nbn:de:kobv:11-110-18452/29524-8
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