Marion Ernwein
Biographic Data
| ID | 388486 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marion Ernwein |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marion |
| FAMILY NAME | Ernwein |
| SIGNATURE | ERNWEIN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Open University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1259-2800 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 91 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
De-municipalisation? Legacies of austerity for England's urban parks
Parks are important urban infrastructures that contribute a broad range of health, environmental, social, and economic benefits. Despite this, UK parks' status as non-statutory services makes them particularly vulnerable to local authority budget cuts. This paper focuses on parks in English cities as these were particularly affected by severe cuts to local government budgets 2010-2019. This period of austerity affected parks provision in various …
Making the mos(s)t of nature? Cleantech, smart nature-based solutions, and the 'rendering investable' of urban moss
This article examines the ways in which 'nature-based solutions' (NBS) to urban environmental problems are contributing to a re-imagining of the forms and roles of vegetal life in cities. Specifically, we examine the versions of nature that are being produced within a subset of nature-based solutions described as 'smart' - that is, those involving the enrolment of non-human lifeforms into digital infrastructures comprising sensors, data flows and…
« Et les jardins ils sont à qui ? » Entretien sur les luttes de défense des jardins populaires
Cet entretien avec des actrices impliquées au sein des Jardins des Vaîtes (Besançon) et des Vertus (Aubervilliers) analyse la nature des luttes qui se déploient dans les jardins populaires en France aujourd’hui. Il documente les enjeux liés à ces espaces et à l’entrée en lutte de celles et ceux qui y tiennent, à la définition de stratégies d’action, et aux tensions entre différentes pratiques sociales et matérielles des collectifs constitués. En …
Filmic geographies
Although conventionally described as a 'visual' method, film-making is also increasingly used within research on embodiment. However, much remains to be said about the ability of filmic methods to enhance researchers' capacity to think and research through the body. Drawing on my experience of making four research films, in this paper, I attempt to advance this agenda in three steps. First, I introduce anthropological work on the filming body to …
Débats, Engagements, Critiques
La revue Métropoles lance une nouvelle rubrique : Débats, Engagements, Critiques. Il s’agit d’un espace consacré aux réflexions sur la production et la circulation des savoirs critiques sur l’urbain, à la fois dans et en dehors du monde universitaire. Dans le monde académique, d’abord, car la fragmentation linguistique des études urbaines, ainsi que celle, disciplinaire, de leur volet francophone, engendrent des effets de silos et instituent des …
Bringing Urban Parks to Life
Using gestion différenciée in Geneva, Switzerland, as a case study, this article puts the politics of labor at the center of a political ecological analysis of efforts to “ecologize” the design and maintenance of urban parks. The article first highlights how the neomanagerial scripting of an “ecological” mode of managing urban parks reshapes social configurations of work by increasing the uneven distribution of agency and visibility among park wo…
Fredericks, R. (2018). Garbage Citizenship
Les natures de la ville néolibérale
« Zéro phyto », gestion écologique : les espaces verts urbains longtemps conçus sur le mode « nature morte » de la tradition horticole se font de plus en plus vivants. Plus participatifs aussi, comme en témoigne la prolifération des programmes de jardinage collectif. Cet ouvrage invite à comprendre l’insertion de ces transformations dans les nouvelles logiques de production de la ville et des services urbains. Sur la base d’enquêtes de terrain…
Events in the affective city
In a representational regime, planned urban events are used by urban planners to render urban projects visible and acceptable. As a corollary of the focus of urban studies on their representational dimension and in spite of a burgeoning literature on the notion of affective urbanism, the experiential character of events remains surprisingly unexplored. This paper argues that an ordinary regime of events is mobilised by city-makers to act on the e…
Produire la ville vivante
Cet article se veut une prise de position à l’encontre des approches de la « nature » en ville par la présupposée « demande sociale » dont elle ferait l’objet. Abordant les citadins non comme des « demandeurs » mais des acteurs voire des faiseurs , et la « nature » non comme un objet générique mais comme un ensemble hétérogène et multiple de non-humains agissants, il vise à saisir l’activité de production mise en œuvre par ces deux catégories d’a…
Communicating invasion
This article explores how discourses of threat concerning invasive alien species emerge and how ordinary citizens understand, receive and appropriate them. It explores the ambivalence of scientists and policy‐makers using emotive or highly charged terms and vocabulary, arguing that many make strategic yet cautious use of fear to raise awareness. Based both on in‐depth interviews of scientists and/or expert policy‐makers involved in communicating …
Framing urban gardening and agriculture
Au-delà de l’agrarisation de la ville
Deux processus permettent de décrire la relation contemporaine entre agriculture et ville : d’une part l’urbanisation de l’agriculture et d’autre part l’agrarisation de la ville. Le premier terme de la proposition parait relativement évident et renvoie notamment aux effets de l’étalement urbain sur les espaces agricoles, mais le second peut paraitre plus surprenant et mérite que l’on s’y arrête. Ainsi, après avoir identifié les caractéristiques d…
Bringing Urban Parks to Life
Using gestion différenciée in Geneva, Switzerland, as a case study, this article puts the politics of labor at the center of a political ecological analysis of efforts to “ecologize” the design and maintenance of urban parks. The article first highlights how the neomanagerial scripting of an “ecological” mode of managing urban parks reshapes social configurations of work by increasing the uneven distribution of agency and visibility among park wo…
Events in the affective city
In a representational regime, planned urban events are used by urban planners to render urban projects visible and acceptable. As a corollary of the focus of urban studies on their representational dimension and in spite of a burgeoning literature on the notion of affective urbanism, the experiential character of events remains surprisingly unexplored. This paper argues that an ordinary regime of events is mobilised by city-makers to act on the e…
Filmic geographies
Although conventionally described as a 'visual' method, film-making is also increasingly used within research on embodiment. However, much remains to be said about the ability of filmic methods to enhance researchers' capacity to think and research through the body. Drawing on my experience of making four research films, in this paper, I attempt to advance this agenda in three steps. First, I introduce anthropological work on the filming body to …
Framing urban gardening and agriculture
Making the mos(s)t of nature? Cleantech, smart nature-based solutions, and the 'rendering investable' of urban moss
This article examines the ways in which 'nature-based solutions' (NBS) to urban environmental problems are contributing to a re-imagining of the forms and roles of vegetal life in cities. Specifically, we examine the versions of nature that are being produced within a subset of nature-based solutions described as 'smart' - that is, those involving the enrolment of non-human lifeforms into digital infrastructures comprising sensors, data flows and…
De-municipalisation? Legacies of austerity for England's urban parks
Parks are important urban infrastructures that contribute a broad range of health, environmental, social, and economic benefits. Despite this, UK parks' status as non-statutory services makes them particularly vulnerable to local authority budget cuts. This paper focuses on parks in English cities as these were particularly affected by severe cuts to local government budgets 2010-2019. This period of austerity affected parks provision in various …
Communicating invasion
This article explores how discourses of threat concerning invasive alien species emerge and how ordinary citizens understand, receive and appropriate them. It explores the ambivalence of scientists and policy‐makers using emotive or highly charged terms and vocabulary, arguing that many make strategic yet cautious use of fear to raise awareness. Based both on in‐depth interviews of scientists and/or expert policy‐makers involved in communicating …
Au-delà de l’agrarisation de la ville
Deux processus permettent de décrire la relation contemporaine entre agriculture et ville : d’une part l’urbanisation de l’agriculture et d’autre part l’agrarisation de la ville. Le premier terme de la proposition parait relativement évident et renvoie notamment aux effets de l’étalement urbain sur les espaces agricoles, mais le second peut paraitre plus surprenant et mérite que l’on s’y arrête. Ainsi, après avoir identifié les caractéristiques d…
Framing urban gardening and agriculture
Au-delà de l’agrarisation de la ville
Deux processus permettent de décrire la relation contemporaine entre agriculture et ville : d’une part l’urbanisation de l’agriculture et d’autre part l’agrarisation de la ville. Le premier terme de la proposition parait relativement évident et renvoie notamment aux effets de l’étalement urbain sur les espaces agricoles, mais le second peut paraitre plus surprenant et mérite que l’on s’y arrête. Ainsi, après avoir identifié les caractéristiques d…
Communicating invasion
This article explores how discourses of threat concerning invasive alien species emerge and how ordinary citizens understand, receive and appropriate them. It explores the ambivalence of scientists and policy‐makers using emotive or highly charged terms and vocabulary, arguing that many make strategic yet cautious use of fear to raise awareness. Based both on in‐depth interviews of scientists and/or expert policy‐makers involved in communicating …
Produire la ville vivante
Cet article se veut une prise de position à l’encontre des approches de la « nature » en ville par la présupposée « demande sociale » dont elle ferait l’objet. Abordant les citadins non comme des « demandeurs » mais des acteurs voire des faiseurs , et la « nature » non comme un objet générique mais comme un ensemble hétérogène et multiple de non-humains agissants, il vise à saisir l’activité de production mise en œuvre par ces deux catégories d’a…
Les natures de la ville néolibérale
« Zéro phyto », gestion écologique : les espaces verts urbains longtemps conçus sur le mode « nature morte » de la tradition horticole se font de plus en plus vivants. Plus participatifs aussi, comme en témoigne la prolifération des programmes de jardinage collectif. Cet ouvrage invite à comprendre l’insertion de ces transformations dans les nouvelles logiques de production de la ville et des services urbains. Sur la base d’enquêtes de terrain…
Events in the affective city
In a representational regime, planned urban events are used by urban planners to render urban projects visible and acceptable. As a corollary of the focus of urban studies on their representational dimension and in spite of a burgeoning literature on the notion of affective urbanism, the experiential character of events remains surprisingly unexplored. This paper argues that an ordinary regime of events is mobilised by city-makers to act on the e…
Fredericks, R. (2018). Garbage Citizenship
Débats, Engagements, Critiques
La revue Métropoles lance une nouvelle rubrique : Débats, Engagements, Critiques. Il s’agit d’un espace consacré aux réflexions sur la production et la circulation des savoirs critiques sur l’urbain, à la fois dans et en dehors du monde universitaire. Dans le monde académique, d’abord, car la fragmentation linguistique des études urbaines, ainsi que celle, disciplinaire, de leur volet francophone, engendrent des effets de silos et instituent des …
Bringing Urban Parks to Life
Using gestion différenciée in Geneva, Switzerland, as a case study, this article puts the politics of labor at the center of a political ecological analysis of efforts to “ecologize” the design and maintenance of urban parks. The article first highlights how the neomanagerial scripting of an “ecological” mode of managing urban parks reshapes social configurations of work by increasing the uneven distribution of agency and visibility among park wo…
Filmic geographies
Although conventionally described as a 'visual' method, film-making is also increasingly used within research on embodiment. However, much remains to be said about the ability of filmic methods to enhance researchers' capacity to think and research through the body. Drawing on my experience of making four research films, in this paper, I attempt to advance this agenda in three steps. First, I introduce anthropological work on the filming body to …
« Et les jardins ils sont à qui ? » Entretien sur les luttes de défense des jardins populaires
Cet entretien avec des actrices impliquées au sein des Jardins des Vaîtes (Besançon) et des Vertus (Aubervilliers) analyse la nature des luttes qui se déploient dans les jardins populaires en France aujourd’hui. Il documente les enjeux liés à ces espaces et à l’entrée en lutte de celles et ceux qui y tiennent, à la définition de stratégies d’action, et aux tensions entre différentes pratiques sociales et matérielles des collectifs constitués. En …
De-municipalisation? Legacies of austerity for England's urban parks
Parks are important urban infrastructures that contribute a broad range of health, environmental, social, and economic benefits. Despite this, UK parks' status as non-statutory services makes them particularly vulnerable to local authority budget cuts. This paper focuses on parks in English cities as these were particularly affected by severe cuts to local government budgets 2010-2019. This period of austerity affected parks provision in various …
Making the mos(s)t of nature? Cleantech, smart nature-based solutions, and the 'rendering investable' of urban moss
This article examines the ways in which 'nature-based solutions' (NBS) to urban environmental problems are contributing to a re-imagining of the forms and roles of vegetal life in cities. Specifically, we examine the versions of nature that are being produced within a subset of nature-based solutions described as 'smart' - that is, those involving the enrolment of non-human lifeforms into digital infrastructures comprising sensors, data flows and…
Political science (10 works) · Sociology (8 works) · French Urban and Social Studies (7 works) · Art (5 works) · Engineering (5 works) · Humanities (5 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Business (3 works)