Killer Cities

AvNigel Thrift

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

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Killer Cities uses a combination of social theory, polemic and close attention to empirical detail to tell the story of how and why cities cause mass animal death and, in the process, hasten the destruction of the planet. This book is not just a lament, however. It is an attempt to navigate out of this mess of planned and unplanned violence towards a world in which cities no longer act as killers but become aligned with the lives of other beings. It offers pragmatic ways of diminishing the death toll and changing mindsets without ever minimizing the dilemmas that inevitably will have to be faced. Killer cities can be rehabilitated so that they offer brighter paths towards the future - for animals, for human beings, and for the planet. A new urban geography could be within our grasp. Indeed, it has to be, for all of our sakes.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2021-02-24
Mått:156 x 234 x 19 mm
Vikt:560 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society
Antal sidor:264
Upplaga:1
Förlag:SAGE Publications
ISBN:9781529751826

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Nigel Thrift is a Visiting Professor in Oxford and Tsinghua Universities. He was previously Executive Director of Schwarzman Scholars, Vice-Chancellor at the University of Warwick and Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research at Oxford University.

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You can’t change the world without first seeing it through new lenses. Killer Cities shines a light on the ecocidal underbelly of urban life in a capitalist world. Using animals as a focus, Nigel Thrift advances concepts, arguments and evidence that might inspire us to make a very different urban future. The book is creative and hopeful in the face of formidable forces of mental and practical inertia.

Innehållsförteckning

Chapter 1: An uncommon humanityPart I: CitiesChapter 2: The Urban WorldPart II: LifeChapter 3: Thinking AnimalsChapter 4: Animals ThinkingPart III: DeathChapter 5: The Animal CityChapter 6: The City of Surplus DeathChapter 7: Not Meat but Still DeadChapter 8: But Some Animals Do Adapt to the CityPart IV: A New SettlementChapter 9: Dreaming More Human Cities 1Chapter 10: Dreaming More Human Cities 2Chapter 11: There is Another World but It Is This OneReferences