Urban Ecologies

This book provides a reflection on urban ecocriticism, a subject that has yet to be fully researched and appreciated within the trans-disciplinary framework of the environmental humanities.

Christopher Schliephake is senior lecturer in ancient history at the University of Augsburg.

Table of Contents Introduction: A Cultural Urban Ecology Chapter 1: "(Eco-)Cosmopolitanism": The Local, the Global and the Ecology of World Cities Chapter 2: "Force of Nature": The Ecology of the Inner-City Drug Culture in The Wire Chapter 3: "The City that Care Forgot": The Complex Ecology of (Post-)Katrina New Orleans Chapter 4: The More-than-Human City: Material Agents, Cyborgs, and the Invasion of Alien Species Epilogue Bibliography About the Author