Kentos: Socio-ecologies of care

Markaki, Metaxia

doi:10.1016/j.foar.2022.04.009

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“…IAG and the broader community that has coalesced around the various eco-restoration sites they manage rather than seeking to expand into the entire Aravalli landscape use these sites to restore and repair not only anthropogenic scars in the landscape but also the broken relationship between the inhabitants and their immediate environments. Thus, drastic human intervention in the Aravalli Region is not only opening micro habitats, but also opening opportunities to build new socio-ecological relationships of care and community building (see Just, 2022; Markaki, 2022).…”

Section: The Modalities Of the Sacredmentioning

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Nature and the extended city: Wasteland governmentality, the sacred, and anti-wasteland politics in the Aravalli region

Bathla

2023

Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space

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Wasteland governmentality has long shaped colonial and postcolonial landscape governance across the planet. While historically wasteland classification was deployed for agrarian land settlement and silviculture, with extended urbanisation it is increasingly used to consolidate landscapes of extended urban nature. These landscapes are in turn subjected to state-led land enclosures for urban and infrastructure development and for greenwashing. This paper investigates the political construction of one such landscape of extended urban nature, the Aravalli region, a geological feature which runs parallel to the extended corridor urbanisation in the Delhi National Capital Region (NCR). Particularly, I examine how in the name of regulating mining, urban development, and pollution in the Delhi NCR, the revenue wastes including sacred groves, hills, and other village commons falling in the Aravallis have been consolidated as a state space. I examine how the patchwork of communities assembled in the extended urban fabric of the region deploys the sacred to counter land enclosure and the emptying out of meaning. I discuss three such modalities of the sacred in the region, namely, its use by agrarian villages to assert land rights over sacred forests, the misuse of the sacred by temple committees to produce faux nature, and its use by emergent urban environmental movements in the region to frame an anti-wasteland politics. Focusing my attention on the state, I discuss the need for a nuanced understanding of emergent urban environmentalism in the region as restorative commoning beyond the binary framings of bourgeois versus the poor.

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Nature and the extended city: Wasteland governmentality, the sacred, and anti-wasteland politics in the Aravalli region

Bathla

2023

Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space

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“…Socio-ecological systems are made up of biological, geological and physical (bio-geo-physical) components and the various social actors and institutions associated with these components. Socio-ecological systems are complex and adaptive, and are constrained by spatial scopes or functions connected to specific ecosystems and problem contexts (Markaki 2022).…”

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Myth, logos, and ecology: Local community perception of social signs on the slopes of Semeru Mountain post-disaster

Setiyawan,

Wahyuni,

Romadhon

et al. 2023

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Seeing a social sign, results in striving to derive the meaning from the sign when it is used. One of the events that appear in various types of social sign is a disaster. It creates various myths that also act as a social sign; one of them is a myth about the relationship between humans and nature. This study aims to explain the perception of the local community in the Sumber Mujur village of Semeru Mountain Slope about social signs made as myth post-disaster eruption in 2022. The myth that is believed by the local community proved to have relevance to ecological sustainability. This research uses qualitative methods through deep interviewing technique. Informants in this study are a local community in the Semeru Mountain area, East Java which is part of the 2021 Semeru eruption survivors. Based on existing findings, most myths grow in line with a scientific view. Although the background or ways of working is different, myth and logos have compatible relevance in the context of ecology sustainability. This study concludes that myths give impact on society’s attitude so as to maintain ecological sustainability, as well as a form of cultural adaptation, both in terms of conservation awareness and mitigation.

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Lively cities: a review in the minor key Lively cities: reconfiguring urban ecology , by Maan Barua, Minneapolis, USA, University of Minnesota Press, 2023, 382 pp., $30.00 (pbk), ISBN 978-1-5179-1256-7

Bathla

2024

Urban Geography

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Kentos: Socio-ecologies of care

Cited by 3 publications

References 30 publications

Nature and the extended city: Wasteland governmentality, the sacred, and anti-wasteland politics in the Aravalli region

Nature and the extended city: Wasteland governmentality, the sacred, and anti-wasteland politics in the Aravalli region

Myth, logos, and ecology: Local community perception of social signs on the slopes of Semeru Mountain post-disaster

Lively cities: a review in the minor key Lively cities: reconfiguring urban ecology , by Maan Barua, Minneapolis, USA, University of Minnesota Press, 2023, 382 pp., $30.00 (pbk), ISBN 978-1-5179-1256-7

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