{"product_id":"ruderal-city-9781478015963","title":"Ruderal City","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eRuderal City\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface: Forest Tracks  vii\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments  xi\u003cbr\u003e Introduction  1\u003cbr\u003e Rubble\u003cbr\u003e 1. Botanical Encounters  35\u003cbr\u003e Gardens\u003cbr\u003e 2. Gardening the Ruins  67\u003cbr\u003e Parks\u003cbr\u003e 3. Provisioning against Austerity  103\u003cbr\u003e 4. Barbecue Area  138\u003cbr\u003e Forests\u003cbr\u003e 5. Living in the \u003ci\u003eUnheimlich\u003c\/i\u003e  173\u003cbr\u003e 6. Stories of the “Wild East”  205\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue: Seeding Livable Futures  239\u003cbr\u003e Notes  245\u003cbr\u003e References  283\u003cbr\u003e Index  319","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409000571223,"sku":"9781478015963","price":73.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781478015963.jpg?v=1730505040","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/ruderal-city-9781478015963","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}