{"id":388,"date":"2019-11-05T17:29:29","date_gmt":"2019-11-05T16:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kth.se\/blogs\/hist\/?p=388"},"modified":"2019-11-05T17:29:29","modified_gmt":"2019-11-05T16:29:29","slug":"the-grounding-book-is-now-out-published-as-openaccess-by-mit-press-grounding-urban-natures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kth.se\/blogs\/hist\/2019\/11\/the-grounding-book-is-now-out-published-as-openaccess-by-mit-press-grounding-urban-natures\/","title":{"rendered":"The \u201cGrounding book\u201d is now out! Published as #OpenAccess by MIT Press. \u201cGrounding Urban Natures\u201d.*"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Henrik Ernstson<\/em><\/p>\n

We won the MIT Press Library Award! Our recently published edited book\u00a0Grounding Urban Natures: Histories and Futures of Urban Ecologies<\/em>\u00a0(2019, MIT Press)<\/a>\u00a0can now be downloaded #OpenAccess as a searchable PDF from The MIT-Press website (press link above).<\/p>\n

For colleagues with permanent jobs or research funding, consider to (also) buy the\u00a0real and heavy<\/em>\u00a0book because its so nice!<\/p>\n

The book provides well-written chapters on urban natures, their social lives, their vibrant matters, and their politics across a varied geography, from the global South to North. Bringing together ethnography and environmental history in a comparative gesture, the chapters are great to teach from as students can trust experienced scholars to unpack the multiplicity of urban nature in narrative form that is\u00a0kept free from jargon<\/em>. Let me know if you teach from it through my twitter handle\u00a0@rhizomia (Henrik Ernstson)<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Back cover of Grounding Urban Nature<\/p>\n
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Front cover of Grounding Urban Nature<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The book\u00a0Grounding Urban Natures<\/em>\u00a0unpacks the multiplicity of urban natures across a wide geography, from global South to North. It opens a space to re-think how we think urban environmental politics for the 21st century.\u00a0Written by leading scholars it is divided in three sections: Unexpected Natures, Popular Natures, and Technological Natures, couched within an Introduction and Conclusion written by the editors Henrik Ernstson and Sverker S\u00f6rlin.<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The chapters are made for teaching as they contain no jargon<\/strong>. They effectively open up urban natures from a multiple of perspectives, and bring case studies from across the world\u2014from new emergent forms of urbanism of the global South, to re-worked cities in the global North. Students will have a wealth of experience to rely on as urban natures are shown to be shaped in sometimes unexpected ways through:<\/p>\n