Plants and Post-Socialist Cities Entangled Narratives

1. Introduction 2. Metonymy and Metaphor in the Imagery of Greenery in a Socialist City: Polish Postcards of Large Housing Estates, 1960—1989 3. Life of Plants in Post-Socialist Urban Spaces: An Eco-Centric Reading of The Night Life of Trees 4. Green Necroecologies: Plant and Built Environment Disentanglements in (Post-)Socialist Belgrade 5. Reinventing Urban Greenery in Post-Socialist Cities 6. Urban Greenery Protests in Vilnius: In Search of Politics 7. Post-Ruderal Greenery: Plants and the Layered Transformations of Elbląg 8. Plants as Political Actors: Urban Transformations and Plant Blindness in Nowa Huta 9. Green After-Lives: Plant Agency on Post-Socialist Brownfields in Upper Silesia 10. Walking With Loca: The Politics of Urban Growth in a Post-Socialist City 11. Human Encounters With the Inside of Plant Bodies: The Literary Works of Urszula Zajączkowska 12. Garden and Botanical Symbolism in Svetlana Alexievich's Chernobyl Prayer: A Chronicle of the Future 13. Ambivalent Vegetation—Between Oppression and Freedom: A Synecdochic Glance at Green Warsaw in the Red Communist Poland

Biography

Maciej Kowalewski is Professor and Head of the Institute of Sociology and UNESCO Chair for Social Sustainability at the University of Szczecin, Poland. His research focuses on urban sociology, protest, and social movements. He has led international research projects and recently co-edited Hustle and Bustle: The Vibrant Cultures of Port Cities.

Mikołaj Madurowicz is Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Geography and Regional Studies at the University of Warsaw, Poland. He is an urban researcher, socio-economic geographer, and specialist in Warsaw studies. His work focuses on urban space, literary cartography, and research methodology. He has authored three monographs and numerous academic publications.

Włodzimierz Karol Pessel is Professor at the Institute of Polish Culture, University of Warsaw, Poland, and is also affiliated with SWPS University. He is a cultural studies scholar specialising in urban studies, infrastructure, port systems, the Baltic region, and Scandinavian studies. He serves as Vice-Chair of the Committee on Cultural Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences.