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2014

University at Buffalo School of Law

Environmental Law

Order and disorder

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Order And Disorder In The Urban Forest: A Foucauldian-Latourian Perspective, Irus Braverman Jul 2014

Order And Disorder In The Urban Forest: A Foucauldian-Latourian Perspective, Irus Braverman

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Published as Chapter 9 in Urban Forests, Trees, and Greenspace: A Political Ecology Perspective, L. Anders Sandberg, Adrina Bardekjian & Sadia Butt, eds.

We pass by street trees everyday. Their existence as well as their particular location in the city seems obvious, innocuous, natural. But, as is the case with most taken-for-granted "things" (Brown, 2011), some excavation is bound to reveal a more complicated and even ideological story. This study focuses on such a story: the story of the clandestine governance of nature and of humans by way of nature - all through the construction and regulation of city street …