Ruderal city : ecologies of migration, race, and urban nature in Berlin / Bettina Stoetzer.

Main entry:

Stoetzer, Bettina, 1971- author.

Title & Author:

Ruderal city : ecologies of migration, race, and urban nature in Berlin / Bettina Stoetzer.

Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2022.
©2022

Description:

xvii, 328 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm.

Series:

Experimental futures

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-317) and index.
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.

ISBN:

9781478015963 (hardcover)
1478015969
9781478018605 (paperback)
1478018607
(ebook)
9781478023203

Subject:

Urban ecology (Sociology) Germany Berlin History.
Human ecology Germany Berlin History.
City and town life Germany Berlin History.
Nature and civilization Germany Berlin.
Écologie urbaine Allemagne Berlin Histoire.
Vie urbaine Allemagne Berlin Histoire.
Nature et civilisation Allemagne Berlin.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography.
City and town life
Human ecology
Nature and civilization
Urban ecology (Sociology)
Germany Berlin

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Experimental futures.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 317163
Call No.: 317163
Copy: 1
Status: Available

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