Maan Barua explores the fraught politics of dwelling between elephants and villagers on land that once harbored colonial plantations in northeastern India, showing how the legacies of colonialism impact the relationship between human and nonhuman life in a time of global environmental upheaval.
"Lively Cities departs from conventions of urban studies to argue that cities are lived achievements forged by a multitude of entities-human and nonhuman-that make up the material politics of city making. Generating fresh conversations between posthumanism, postcolonialism, and political economy, Barua reveals how these actors shape, integrate, subsume, and relate to urban space in fascinating ways"--