Three bugs in the city: urban ecology and multispecies relationality in postsocialist Belgrade

Andrija Filipović

Contemporary Social Science, 2021, vol. 16, issue 1, 29-42

Abstract: This paper analyses the intersection and interaction of insects, humans, urban infrastructure, the postsocialist condition and the Anthropocene in the urban ecology of Belgrade. The mutually conditioned materialisation of these phenomena is marked by biopolitical and zoopolitical technologies, reflected in production of biofear through media and unmediated management of human and non-human bodies. Broader context of these technologies is the transition towards a (neo)liberal economy (precarisation, privatisation, financialisation): this is the postsocialist condition, marked by investment urbanism and the state of city infrastructure. The other, more broader context is planetary anthropogenic climate and ecological change (the Anthropocene), which enables novel movement of living and nonliving beings, as well as new kinds of relationality between them. The challenge is to create new forms of multispecies relationality in the face of the local, regional and global changes of the twenty-first century.

Date: 2021
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