Title & Author:

Places of nature in ecologies of urbanism / edited by Anne Rademacher and K. Sivaramakrishnan.

Publication:

Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, [2017]

Description:

xi, 255 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Notes:
Outgrowth of a conference on "Environmental Sustainability, Political Ecology, and Civil Society," supported and hosted by the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences in June 2014, and continued at Yale University in February 2015. (Preface and acknowledgments).
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Places of nature in Asian cities and towns / Anne Rademacher and K. Sivaramakrishnan -- 1. Inquisitive legacies : ecologies of power and Goan modernity / R. Bendito Ferrão -- 2. Eco-socialism and green city making in postwar Vietnam / Christina Schwenkel -- 3. Urban leopards are good cartographers : human-nonhuman and spatial conflicts at Sanjay Gandhi National Park, Mumbai / Frédéric Landy -- 4. Hong Kong's artificial anti-archipelago and the unnaturing of the natural / Andrew Toland -- 5. Tales from the concrete cave : Delhi's Birla Temple and the genealogies of urban nature in India / Kajri Jain -- 6. Courts, public cultures of legality, and urban ecological imagination in Delhi / K. Sivaramakrishnan -- 7. Ecologies of possibility : dwelling, politics, and government along Khon Kaen's railway tracks / Eli Elinoff -- 8. Discrepant ecologies in a North Indian qasba : protected trees, degraded river / Ann Grodzins Gold -- 9. Re-imagining the Indian underground : a biography of the tubewell / Anthony Acciavatti.

Summary:

If twenty-first-century urbanization is understood as a problem, its regional epicenter is the cities in Asia. Facing unprecedented diversity in scale, scope, and environmental dynamics in the Asian urban experience, scholars will need an approach that can truly capture the significance of place and context. The challenge, as this volume illustrates, can be met by the analytic of ecologies of urbanism. Eschewing a rigid, single ecology, the contributors identify multiple forms of nature-in biophysical, cultural, and political terms-that have discernable impact on power relations and human social action. The case studies in this book-including leopards in Mumbai, a network of tubewells in northern India, an island that grows through reclamation in Hong Kong, and a railway continuum linking Khon Kaen and Bangkok-all attest to the versatility of ecologies of urbanism. Guided by urban processes rather than geopolitical boundaries, Places of Nature in Ecologies of Urbanism offers a picture of urban Asia that is composed of varied ecologies of urbanism. Book jacket.

ISBN:

9789888390601 (paperback)
9888390600 (paperback)
9789888390595 (hardback)
9888390597 (hardback)
(PDF ebook)
9789888390281

Subject:

Urbanization Environmental aspects Asia.
Urban ecology (Sociology) Asia.
Human ecology Asia.
Sustainable urban development Asia.
Cities and towns Asia.
Natural areas Asia.
Urbanisation Aspect de l'environnement Asie.
Écologie urbaine Asie.
Écologie humaine Asie.
Urbanisme durable Asie.
Villes Asie.
Réserves naturelles Asie.
Cities and towns.
Human ecology.
Natural areas.
Sustainable urban development.
Urban ecology (Sociology)
Urbanization Environmental aspects.
Urbanisation Aspect environnemental Asie.
Espaces naturels Asie.
Asia.

Added entries:

Rademacher, Anne, editor.
Sivaramakrishnan, K., 1957- editor.
Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences, sponsoring body, host institution.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 295323
Call No.: BIB 241481
Status: Available