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Urban Ecologies
City Space, Material Agency, and Environmental Politics in Contemporary CultureEcocritical Theory and Practice
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52,99 € |
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| Verlag: | Lexington Books |
| Format: | EPUB |
| Veröffentl.: | 11.12.2014 |
| ISBN/EAN: | 9780739195765 |
| Sprache: | englisch |
| Anzahl Seiten: | 268 |
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Beschreibungen
<span><span>The term “urban ecology” has become a buzzword in various disciplines, including the social and natural sciences as well as urban planning and architecture. The environmental humanities have been slow to adapt to current theoretical debates, often excluding human-built environments from their respective frameworks. This book closes this gap both in theory and in practice, bringing together “urban ecology” with ecocritical and cultural ecological approaches by conceptualizing the city as an integral part of the environment and as a space in which ecological problems manifest concretely. Arguing that culture has to be seen as an active component and integral factor within urban ecologies, it makes use of a metaphorical use of the term, perceiving cities as spatial phenomena that do not only have manifold and complex material interrelations with their respective (natural) environments, but that are intrinsically connected to the ideas, imaginations, and interpretations that make up the cultural symbolic and discursive side of our urban lives and that are stored and constantly renegotiated in their cultural and artistic representations. The city is, within this framework, both seen as an ecosystemically organized space as well as a cultural artifact. Thus, the urban ecology outlined in this study takes its main impetus from an analysis of examples taken from contemporary culture that deal with urban life and the complex interrelations between urban communities and their (natural and built) environments. <br></span></span>
<span><span>This book provides a reflection on urban ecocriticism, a subject that has yet to be fully researched and appreciated within the trans-disciplinary framework of the environmental humanities. </span></span>
<span><span>Table of Contents</span></span>
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<span><span>Introduction: A Cultural Urban Ecology </span></span>
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<span><span>Chapter 1: “(Eco-)Cosmopolitanism”: The Local, the Global and the Ecology of World Cities </span></span>
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<span><span>Chapter 2: “Force of Nature”: The Ecology of the Inner-City Drug Culture in </span><span>The Wire</span></span>
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<span><span>Chapter 3: “The City that Care Forgot”: The Complex Ecology of (Post-)Katrina New Orleans </span></span>
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<span><span>Chapter 4: The More-than-Human City: Material Agents, Cyborgs, and the Invasion of Alien Species </span></span>
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<span><span>Epilogue </span></span>
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<span><span>Bibliography</span></span>
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<span><span>About the Author</span></span>
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<span><span>Introduction: A Cultural Urban Ecology </span></span>
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<span><span>Chapter 1: “(Eco-)Cosmopolitanism”: The Local, the Global and the Ecology of World Cities </span></span>
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<span><span>Chapter 2: “Force of Nature”: The Ecology of the Inner-City Drug Culture in </span><span>The Wire</span></span>
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<span><span>Chapter 3: “The City that Care Forgot”: The Complex Ecology of (Post-)Katrina New Orleans </span></span>
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<span><span>Chapter 4: The More-than-Human City: Material Agents, Cyborgs, and the Invasion of Alien Species </span></span>
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<span><span>Epilogue </span></span>
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<span><span>Bibliography</span></span>
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<span><span>About the Author</span></span>
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<span><span>This book provides a reflection on urban ecocriticism, a subject that has yet to be fully researched and appreciated within the trans-disciplinary framework of the environmental humanities. The main goal of this book is both to open up urban ecology for ecocritical and cultural ecological approaches and to broaden the focus of consisting models, which tend to narrowly focus on the spatial-material and/or socio-political aspects of urban life, with the help of a cultural-analytical perspective.<br></span></span>
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<span><span>Christopher Schliephake</span><span> is teaching assistant in the History Department at the University of Augsburg.</span></span>
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