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Author: Maan Barua
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Imprint: University of Minnesota Press
Dimensions:
Width: 14.00cm
, Height: 2.50cm
, Length: 21.60cm
Weight: 0.680kg
ISBN: 9781517912550
ISBN 10: 1517912555
Pages: 408
Publication Date: 16 May 2023
Audience:
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Professional and scholarly
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General
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Temporarily unavailable
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Reviews
Urbanities are the intersection and always provisional conjunctions of multiple inhabitations negotiated across a heterogeneity of agencies and forces-engendering dispositions always unsettled in their everyday encounters and unruly ecologies. This text is an unparalleled exploration of the liveliness that other-than-human beings infuse into a sociality extended beyond biopolitical conceptualization and control, underlining an urban economy more attuned to its natural surrounds. An essential excursion across the shifting landscapes of incipient sustenance. -AbdouMaliq Simone, author of The Surrounds: Urban Life within and beyond Capture
""Urbanities are the intersection and always provisional conjunctions of multiple inhabitations negotiated across a heterogeneity of agencies and forces—engendering dispositions always unsettled in their everyday encounters and unruly ecologies. This text is an unparalleled exploration of the liveliness that other-than-human beings infuse into a sociality extended beyond biopolitical conceptualization and control, underlining an urban economy more attuned to its natural surrounds. An essential excursion across the shifting landscapes of incipient sustenance.""—AbdouMaliq Simone, author of The Surrounds: Urban Life within and beyond Capture ""Barua’s ambitious and poetic account will undoubtedly become a touchstone text in several fields.""—Urban Studies ""A phenomenal work that exhorts the reader to reconceptualize the urban environment as a lively meshwork of human and other-than-human entities.""—H-Net ""[Lively Cities] provides a new perspective on the continuous formation of urban ecologies.""—Social Anthropology ""A rich and evocative theoretical framework for thinking the city in a minor key.""—Humanimalia ""Ecological formations inhere in the fabric of the urban, and yet […] they have been marginalized as objects of concern by major strands of urban theory. Lively Cities remedies this absence. ""—City ""Expands the debate significantly and productively.""—Urban Geography
Author Information
Maan Barua is a university lecturer in human geography at the University of Cambridge.
