ISBN:
9781478023203
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (xvii, 328 pages)
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Illustrationen, Karten
Series Statement:
Experimental futures
Series Statement:
technological lives, scientific arts, anthropological voices
Series Statement:
20
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Stötzer, Bettina, 1971 - Ruderal city
Keywords:
City and town life History
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Human ecology History
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Nature and civilization
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Urban ecology (Sociology) History
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
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2023 Diana Forsythe Prize Winner
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2023 German Studies Association Award Winners
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AAA Book Prize Winners
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AAA Committee for the Anthropology of Science, Technology and Computing
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CASTAC Diana Forsythe Prize book award winner
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Diana Forsythe award winner
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German Studies Association Book Awards
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Berlin
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Park
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Wald
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Kleingarten
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Freizeitverhalten
Abstract:
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
Abstract:
Bettina Stoetzer traces the more-than-human relationships between people, plants, and animals in contemporary Berlin, showing how Berlin's "urban nature" becomes a key site in which notions of citizenship and belonging as well as racialized, gendered, and classed inequalities become apparent.
Abstract:
"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"--
Description / Table of Contents:
Forest Tracks -- Rubble -- Ruderal City -- Gardens -- Gardening the Ruins -- Parks -- Provisioning against Austerity -- Barbecue Area -- Forests -- Living in the Unheimlich -- Stories of the "Wild East"
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Frontmatter
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CONTENTS
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Preface: Forest Tracks
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction
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Rubble
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1 Botanical Encounters
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Gardens
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2 Gardening the Ruins
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Parks
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3 Provisioning against Austerity
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4 Barbecue Area
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Forests
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5 Living in the Unheimlich
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6 Stories of the “Wild East”
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Epilogue: Seeding Livable Futures
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NOTES
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REFERENCES
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INDEX
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In English
DOI:
10.1515/9781478023203
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