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Ruderal City: Ecologies of Migration, Race, and Urban Nature in Berlin

Bettina Stoetzer

Culture, humanities & social science

Ruderal City: Ecologies of Migration, Race, and Urban Nature in Berlin

By Bettina Stoetzer, associate professor of anthropology

Duke University Press · 2022

In "Ruderal City," Stoetzer traces relationships among people, plants, and animals in contemporary Berlin as they make their lives in the ruins of European nationalism and capitalism. She develops the notion of the ruderal - originally an ecological designation for the unruly life that inhabits inhospitable environments such as rubble, roadsides, train tracks, and sidewalk cracks - to theorize Berlin as a "ruderal city."

From Summer 2023 recommended reading from MIT (MIT News). Cover image via Google Books.