Casper Bruun JensenJakkrit Sangkhamanee and I puts various ideas from #sts and anthro together with urban studies and weird fiction to try to figure out what kind of an entity #Bangkok is by a lateral comparison of #rewilding in Benjakitti Urban Forest Park and the youth #protests taking place across the city since 2020. The city appears overlapping critical zones where cascades of relations, always prone to spin out of control, create #cosmoecological openings.
Rewilding Bangkok: Critical Zones and the Cosmoecology of Parks and Protests
Urban ecologies of megacities like Bangkok have been described as microcosms of global environmental change. But it is not so clear what kinds of microcosms they are, how to construe their many problems, and how to proceed. We explore these questions