Urban Natures

Ferne Edwards has conducted research on sustainable cities across Australia, Venezuela, Ireland, Spain, Norway and the UK. Her books include the edited volumes, Food for Degrowth: Perspectives and Practices and Food, Senses and the City (both Routledge, 2021), and the monograph, Food Resistance Movements: A Journey into Alternative Food Networks (Palgrave, 2023).

“This vibrant essay collection takes the study of urban nature in new directions. A series of questions concerning agency, ethics and subjectivity within the more-than-human city are examined through a rich array of interdisciplinary and international contributions.” • Matthew Gandy, University of Cambridge“This is an admirably wide-ranging collection of case studies … providing a broad state of knowledge snapshotting the politics of the urban green from a critical social science perspective, focusing on the diverse lived experience.” • Franklin Ginn, University of Bristol

• List of Illustrations and TablesList of AbbreviationsGlossary of Key TermsAcknowledgementsPrefaceFerne EdwardsIntroduction: Mapping the Multispecies City in Theory, Methods and PracticeFerne Edwards, Lucia Alexandra Popartan and Ida Nilstad PettersenPart I: Making Visible Diverse Urban NaturesChapter 1. Life After Dark: Multispecies Encounters in the Nocturnal CityNick DunnChapter 2. Making Urban Nature Visible (With a Focus on Insects)Ferne EdwardsChapter 3. Let the City Walls Go Wild: Finding Safety in Urban EdgelandsHannah Cowan and Sam KnightChapter 4. A Bear and Those Things Beneath my Knees: Nature in Settler-Colonial Los AngelesChima Michael Anyadike-DanesChapter 5. East End Jam: A Multi-Sensory Urban Foraging ArtworkClare Qualmann and Amy VogelChapter 6. Illuminating the Worlds We Produce: A Reflexive Approach to Urban Natures ResearchLisa de Kleyn, Brian Coffey and Judy BushPart II: (Re)Connecting Urban NaturesChapter 7. Layering Identity, Place and Be-longing Between Nature and UrbanityTracey M. BensonChapter 8. A ‘Democracy of Compost’: Neo-materialist Encounters in Urban SpacesMonique Wing and Emma L. SharpThis chapter is available Open Access with support from the Food, Food Production and Nutrition Research Network in the Faculty of Science, University of AucklandChapter 9. Caring for Foxes at a London Allotment: Tales from a Contested Interspecies PlaygroundJan van DuppenChapter 10. Relational Growing: Reimagining Contemporary Aboriginal Agriculture in Colonialized CityscapesDominique ChenChapter 11. ‘War on Weeds’: On Fighting and Caring for Native Nature in Auckland, Aotearoa New ZealandJeannine-Madeleine FischerChapter 12. Designing with Bees: Integrating More-than-Human Knowledges in Brussels’ CityscapesJolein Bergers, Bruno Notteboom and Viviana d’AuriaPart II: Politicizing Urban NaturesChapter 13. Reducing Vulnerability Through Gardening? The Mobilization of Urban Natures during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Port Vila, VanuatuAndrew McKenzie and Ginny SteinChapter 14. ‘I don’t care about tomatoes’: Building Situated Urban Commons in GironaLucia Alexandra Popartan, Josep Pueyo, Enric Cassú, Richard Pointelin, Joana Castellar, Joaquim ComasChapter 15. Urban Fog Oasis Conservation: Endangerment, Invasiones and Informal Urbanization in LimaChakad OjaniChapter 16. Haunting Natures: The Politics of Green Reparations in Baltimore, MDMariya Shcheglovitova and JH PitasChapter 17. Urban Trees as ‘Furniture’? The More-than-Human Politics of Moving Gothenburg’s Mature TreesMathilda RosengrenChapter 18. ‘There’s a Strong Green Wind Blowing’. Drawing the Politics of Street Trees in PracticeHanne Cecilie Geirbo and Ida Nilstad PettersenThis chapter is available Open Access with support from Oslo Metropolitan University.Conclusion: Reflections and Future Directions for Researching Urban NaturesFerne EdwardsIndex