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Nature
Summary
This paper is not about microplastics; it is a philosophical and urban studies chapter discussing human relationships with nature and more-than-human communities in the Anthropocene.
Nature is everywhere, deeply embedded in the cultural and political histories of the present and the still yet possible environmental futures. Central are the more-than-human experiences of dispossession, dislocation and perceptions of being fundamentally ‘out of place’ in the city. There is a shared push back against the modernist framing of ‘empty’ or vacant landscapes, towards alternative cosmologies of human and more-than-human (or other-than-human) communities, part of a broader imaginary of ecological constellations and urban collectives. This is about deep time and intersecting temporalities and experiences in the Anthropocene. This chapter focuses on the need for a shift in thinking and practices around urban sustainability to address hot city futures. A shared more-than-human kinship ethic for example, requires finding more imaginative and regenerative ways to change the nature of urban practices for cities and their regions in climate change.
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