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).

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Preface

Ferne Edwards



Introduction: Mapping the Multispecies City in Theory, Methods and Practice

Ferne Edwards, Lucia Alexandra Popartan and Ida Nilstad Pettersen



Part I: Making Visible Diverse Urban Natures



Chapter 1. Life After Dark: Multispecies Encounters in the Nocturnal City

Nick Dunn



Chapter 2. Making Urban Nature Visible (With a Focus on Insects)

Ferne Edwards



Chapter 3. Let the City Walls Go Wild: Finding Safety in Urban Edgelands

Hannah Cowan and Sam Knight



Chapter 4. A Bear and Those Things Beneath my Knees: Nature in Settler-Colonial Los Angeles

Chima Michael Anyadike-Danes



Chapter 5. East End Jam: A Multi-Sensory Urban Foraging Artwork

Clare Qualmann and Amy Vogel



Chapter 6. Illuminating the Worlds We Produce: A Reflexive Approach to Urban Natures Research

Lisa de Kleyn, Brian Coffey and Judy Bush



Part II: (Re)Connecting Urban Natures



Chapter 7. Layering Identity, Place and Be-longing Between Nature and Urbanity

Tracey M. Benson



Chapter 8. A ‘Democracy of Compost’: Neo-materialist Encounters in Urban Spaces

Monique Wing and Emma L. Sharp

This chapter is available Open Access with support from the Food, Food Production and Nutrition Research Network in the Faculty of Science, University of Auckland



Chapter 9. Caring for Foxes at a London Allotment: Tales from a Contested Interspecies Playground

Jan van Duppen



Chapter 10. Relational Growing: Reimagining Contemporary Aboriginal Agriculture in Colonialized Cityscapes

Dominique Chen



Chapter 11. ‘War on Weeds’: On Fighting and Caring for Native Nature in Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand

Jeannine-Madeleine Fischer



Chapter 12. Designing with Bees: Integrating More-than-Human Knowledges in Brussels’ Cityscapes

Jolein Bergers, Bruno Notteboom and Viviana d’Auria



Part II: Politicizing Urban Natures



Chapter 13. Reducing Vulnerability Through Gardening? The Mobilization of Urban Natures during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Port Vila, Vanuatu

Andrew McKenzie and Ginny Stein



Chapter 14. ‘I don’t care about tomatoes’: Building Situated Urban Commons in Girona

Lucia Alexandra Popartan, Josep Pueyo, Enric Cassú, Richard Pointelin, Joana Castellar, Joaquim Comas



Chapter 15. Urban Fog Oasis Conservation: Endangerment, Invasiones and Informal Urbanization in Lima

Chakad Ojani



Chapter 16. Haunting Natures: The Politics of Green Reparations in Baltimore, MD

Mariya Shcheglovitova and JH Pitas



Chapter 17. Urban Trees as ‘Furniture’? The More-than-Human Politics of Moving Gothenburg’s Mature Trees

Mathilda Rosengren



Chapter 18. ‘There’s a Strong Green Wind Blowing’. Drawing the Politics of Street Trees in Practice

Hanne Cecilie Geirbo and Ida Nilstad Pettersen

This chapter is available Open Access with support from Oslo Metropolitan University.



Conclusion: Reflections and Future Directions for Researching Urban Natures

Ferne Edwards



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