Urban ecologies : city space, material agency, and environmental politics in contemporary culture /
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| Author / Creator: | Schliephake, Christopher, 1985- author. |
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| Imprint: | Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2015] |
| Description: | xlviii, 219 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Ecocritical theory and practice Ecocritical theory and practice. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10127319 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: A Cultural Urban Ecology
- 1. "(Eco-)Cosmopolitanism": The Local, the Global, and the Ecology of World Cities
- 2. "Force of Nature": The Ecology of the Inner-City Drug Culture in The Wire
- 3. "The City that Care Forgot": The Complex Ecology of (Post-) Katrina New Orleans
- 4. The More-than-Human City: Material Agents, Cyborgs, and the Invasion of Alien Species
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author
