Christopher Schliephake is teaching assistant in the History Department at the University of Augsburg.

Schliephake’s Urban Ecologiesproposes thereby an inspiring and new field of ‘urban material ecocriticism’ based on the interdisciplinary merging of urban studies and ecocriticism. . . .This is a book with relevance for anyone interested in cities, the environment, the environmental humanities, and/or ecocriticism, but also for agents both human and non-human alike.

• Table of ContentsIntroduction: A Cultural Urban Ecology Chapter 1: “(Eco-)Cosmopolitanism”: The Local, the Global and the Ecology of World Cities Chapter 2: “Force of Nature”: The Ecology of the Inner-City Drug Culture in The WireChapter 3: “The City that Care Forgot”: The Complex Ecology of (Post-)Katrina New Orleans Chapter 4: The More-than-Human City: Material Agents, Cyborgs, and the Invasion of Alien Species Epilogue BibliographyAbout the Author

Christopher Schliephake is teaching assistant in the History Department at the University of Augsburg.

Schliephake’s Urban Ecologiesproposes thereby an inspiring and new field of ‘urban material ecocriticism’ based on the interdisciplinary merging of urban studies and ecocriticism. . . .This is a book with relevance for anyone interested in cities, the environment, the environmental humanities, and/or ecocriticism, but also for agents both human and non-human alike.

• Table of ContentsIntroduction: A Cultural Urban Ecology Chapter 1: “(Eco-)Cosmopolitanism”: The Local, the Global and the Ecology of World Cities Chapter 2: “Force of Nature”: The Ecology of the Inner-City Drug Culture in The WireChapter 3: “The City that Care Forgot”: The Complex Ecology of (Post-)Katrina New Orleans Chapter 4: The More-than-Human City: Material Agents, Cyborgs, and the Invasion of Alien Species Epilogue BibliographyAbout the Author

Christopher Schliephake is teaching assistant in the History Department at the University of Augsburg.

Schliephake’s Urban Ecologiesproposes thereby an inspiring and new field of ‘urban material ecocriticism’ based on the interdisciplinary merging of urban studies and ecocriticism. . . .This is a book with relevance for anyone interested in cities, the environment, the environmental humanities, and/or ecocriticism, but also for agents both human and non-human alike.

• Table of ContentsIntroduction: A Cultural Urban Ecology Chapter 1: “(Eco-)Cosmopolitanism”: The Local, the Global and the Ecology of World Cities Chapter 2: “Force of Nature”: The Ecology of the Inner-City Drug Culture in The WireChapter 3: “The City that Care Forgot”: The Complex Ecology of (Post-)Katrina New Orleans Chapter 4: The More-than-Human City: Material Agents, Cyborgs, and the Invasion of Alien Species Epilogue BibliographyAbout the Author