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Lively Cities departs from conventions of urban studies to argue that cities are lived achievements forged by a multitude of entities, drawing attention to a suite of beings—human and nonhuman—that make up the material politics of city making.  From macaques and cattle in Delhi to the invasive parakeet colonies in London, Maan Barua examines the rhythms, paths, and agency of nonhumans across the city. He reconceptualizes several key themes in urban thought, including infrastructure, the built environment, design, habitation, and everyday practices of dwelling and provides a critical intervention in animal and urban studies. Generating fresh conversations between posthumanism, postcolonialism, and political economy, Barua reveals how human and nonhuman actors shape, integrate, subsume, and relate to urban space in fascinating ways.  Through novel combinations of ethnography and ethology, and focusing on interlocutors that are not the usual suspects animating urban theory, Barua’s work considers nonhuman lifeworlds and the differences they make in understanding urbanicity. Lively Cities is an agenda-setting intervention, ultimately proposing a new grammar of urban life.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49745031201041,"sku":"NGR9781517912567","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1517912563.jpg?v=1764843800"},{"product_id":"elephant-conservation-and-society-in-india-encounters-spaces-and-politics-book-maan-barua-9780415844284","title":"Elephant Conservation and Society in India: Encounters, Spaces and Politics","description":"The Asian elephant is an endangered species and a cultural icon in both Asia and the West, while in India it is both deified and demonized. 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