Bettina Stoetzer traces the more-than-human relationships between people, plants, and animals in contemporary Berlin, showing how Berlin’s “urban nature” becomes a key site in which notions of citizenship and belonging as well as racialized, gendered, and classed inequalities become apparent.

Preface: Forest Tracks  vii
Acknowledgments  xi
Introduction  1
Rubble
1. Botanical Encounters  35
Gardens
2. Gardening the Ruins  67
Parks
3. Provisioning against Austerity  103
4. Barbecue Area  138
Forests
5. Living in the Unheimlich  173
6. Stories of the “Wild East”  205
Epilogue: Seeding Livable Futures  239
Notes  245
References  283
Index  319

Bettina Stoetzer is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and coeditor of Shock and Awe: War on Words.