Ecologizing cities: material, metabolic & political life. Maan Barua's (@maanbarua) ERC Urban Ecologies project. @ERC_Research at @cambridge_uni & @NIAS_India
Cambridge, England
Joined July 2017
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How might #metabolism remain a pivotal concept in the social sciences?
Metabolic geographies now out in @ProgHumGeog. Open Access:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…
@ERC_Research, @UEcologies
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Review of @maanbarua 'Plantation Worlds' by Dhruv Gangadharan just out in @SocCultGeog . A "more-than-human ethnography [...] that impressses upon readers a politics that centres life and life-making practices in the Plantationcene" shorturl.at/qMBOd
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Norms and the city: a wonderful conversation at @MFOxford with some fabulous talks by @ProfGillian, @PerigPitrou and others! And it was fun to share some of the #Amphibious Urbanism work! #UrbanEcologies
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The exhibition is now live at the #Wunderkammer, an amazing curatorial space in Stuttgart. Thanks to all who came to the opening! #Amphibious #UrbanEcologies @ERC_Research
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@maanbarua explores the histories and ecologies of plantations in his upcoming book "Plantation Worlds." Read a free introduction of today. ow.ly/b8fU50StWLa
ALT Cover of Plantation Worlds by Maan Barua. Cover features a multi-media work of abstract art incorporating watercolors, acrylics, and geometric line drawings. The art is pink with blue and green accents.
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#Amphibious: three surrounds. Excited to present our visual work (with @madhukaillya) at the @soncities conference today! @ERC_Research
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Ravi Sundaram (@csdsdelhi) on #LivelyCities in @urbgeog! An absolute honour: his work has deeply influenced me. Writing for an audience yet to come, Ravi pioneered articulating cities in a #minor key! @political_urban, @UMinnPress
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We have just published a new Book Review Forum coordinated by @nitin_bathla on @maanbarua's Lively Cities. You can also listen to the @political_urban podcast linked in the intro urbangeographyjournal.org/jo… @thatjulieren
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Thi multimodal review forum on @maanbarua's book Lively Cities is finally out. The review forum was a collaboration between @political_urban & @urbgeog. Thanks to @thatjulieren for the opportunity. Read the introduction to the review forum here tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
🎙New episode!!🎙 In our latest book review roundtable, @nitin_bathla and his guests discuss @maanbarua's book "Lively Cities". Tune in for a fresh conversation on the material politics of city making!
urbanpolitical.online/episod…
#urbanpolitical #urbanbooks @linsenb @GSZ_HU @ETH
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🎙New episode!!🎙 In our latest book review roundtable, @nitin_bathla and his guests discuss @maanbarua's book "Lively Cities". Tune in for a fresh conversation on the material politics of city making!
urbanpolitical.online/episod…
#urbanpolitical #urbanbooks @linsenb @GSZ_HU @ETH
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I, with @RagavanShruti @Shubhangi1057 @kashqueeri have gotten an article published in @ScotGeogJournal. We inquire about overlooked everyday lives and relationships of and with nonhuman animals in Guwahati city. This is part of our work with @UEcologies
tandfonline.com/eprint/MQ7BK…
ALT Pigs being fed leftover food in an informal settlement of people from the Bansphor community in Guwahati
ALT The state of Assam in India. Guwahati city lies in this state.
ALT Guwahati city in the state of Assam
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@kashqueeri @SnehaGutgutia @Shubhangi1057 & I use an entanglements framework to think/write about animals' geographies from an overlooked city #Guwahati - a 'South within the South' in @ScotGeogJournal.
@UEcologies
Do take a look: tandfonline.com/eprint/CYVKT…
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Thank you @maanbarua @CamUniGeography for a brilliant UNFOLD @Decolonise_arch seminar on Amphibious Urbanism in @arch_cambridge yesterday! Thanks also to the fab librarians @AHALibCam for your hospitality 📚
A lovely event packed with people, books, and new insights 💫
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As #LivelyCities finds its footing, I am delighted to announce that my book #PlantationWorlds will be published by @DukePress this year!
Its based on 15 years of research, and another 15 years of life in the landscape I write about!
dukeupress.edu/plantation-wo…
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A story of the cover image of #LivelyCities! My new piece in @road_sides discuses the photograph, #infrastructure and writing the #urban in a #minor key! #UrbanEcologies
roadsides.net/barua-010/
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Does macaques’ use of hanging cables in Old Delhi point toward an urban arboreality? Maan Barua reflects on unforeseen ways of negotiating access to infrastructure among other-than-human lifeforms in the city: roadsides.net/barua-010/
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What might an urban grammar not just look but feel like? A conversation on #LivelyCities and the amazing @sandra_jasper's work now a podcast with @UMinnPress!
Tune in:
share.transistor.fm/s/c662ca…
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@linsenb and I are happy to invite you to the launch of Lively Cities: Reconfiguring Urban Ecology on Thursday, 26.10, 17:30 - 19:00 at ETH Hönggerberg. We will be discussing the book with the author @maanbarua and Darcy Alexandra, Flurina Gardin, & Johanna Just as interlocutors
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Today in Cambridge to think through nature of relations between human and non-human animals in multi species city, with @maanbarua @helen_fwilson @BrandonKWMak @olga_petri #UrbanEcologies
