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Transforming paradise: Neoliberal regeneration and more-than-human urbanism in Birmingham
| Content Provider | SAGE Publishing |
|---|---|
| Author | Oliver, Catherine |
| Copyright Year | 2022 |
| Abstract | In Birmingham, a badger visits me each evening outside my front door. Five years later, a fox meets me on a city street at 5 am. Two years after that, walking along the city’s canals, my eyes lock with a heron’s. A year later, a eucalyptus tree becomes my shade and respite in a disturbed city. Months later, as I get ready to leave the city, I encounter a group of parakeets. In this paper, I ask how these seemingly disparate encounters and relationships are intimately connected as part of Birmingham’s urban ecologies and larger stories of urban regeneration – and its consequences for thriving and precarious life in the city. I argue that the tension between thriving and precarity in Birmingham (and cities like it) results from new exertions of control whilst urban dwellers establish new forms of more-than-human urban cohabitation. The stories in this paper, relating to different non-human lives caught up in Birmingham’s transformation into a neoliberal city, demonstrate that serious consideration of more-than-human theory and experience is essential to the future of urban studies scholarship. |
| Related Links | https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/00420980221104975?download=true |
| Starting Page | 519 |
| Ending Page | 536 |
| Page Count | 18 |
| ISSN | 00420980 |
| Issue Number | 3 |
| Volume Number | 60 |
| Journal | Urban Studies (USJ) |
| e-ISSN | 1360063X |
| DOI | 10.1177/00420980221104975 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Sage Publications UK |
| Publisher Date | 2022-07-15 |
| Publisher Place | London |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Rights Holder | © Urban Studies Journal Limited 2022 |
| Subject Keyword | 再开发/更新 urban ecologies 城市生态 public space redevelopment/regeneration 环境/可持续性 social justice more-than-human urban theory 社会正义 超越人类的城市理论 公共空间 environment/sustainability inequality 不平等 |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
| Subject | Urban Studies Environmental Science |
