One of the latest in several books on cities published by or forthcoming from Duke University Press that we have indexed at Southwest Humanities is Bettina Stoetzer’s newest work, Ruderal City: Ecologies of Migration, Race, and Urban Nature in Berlin. This book “traces relationships among people, plants, and animals in contemporary Berlin as they make their lives in the ruins of European nationalism and capitalism.” The author’s central notion of the ruderal (“originally an ecological designation for the unruly life that inhabits inhospitable environments such as rubble, roadsides, train tracks, and sidewalk cracks”) to show how Berlin, as a “ruderal city,” is a site of contestations over urban nature shaped by inequalities, of gender, class, and race. “Drawing on fieldwork with gardeners, botanists, migrant workers, refugees, public officials, and nature enthusiasts while charting human and more-than-human worlds, Stoetzer offers a wide-ranging ethnographic portrait of Berlin’s postwar ecologies that reveals emergent futures in the margins of European cities.” Ruderal City will be published in early December 2022, and more information about this title can be found at the publisher’s website here.