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Research Articles

Cultivated, feral, wild: the urban as an ecological formation

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Pages 2206-2227 | Received 23 Apr 2020, Accepted 15 Mar 2022, Published online: 25 Apr 2022

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Figure 1. Urban cattle grazing in a garbage heap (Photo: Maan Barua).

Figure 1. Urban cattle grazing in a garbage heap (Photo: Maan Barua).

Figure 2. Street dogs in a residential neighborhood eliciting affection from a human (Photo: Maan Barua).

Figure 2. Street dogs in a residential neighborhood eliciting affection from a human (Photo: Maan Barua).

Figure 3. Provisioning macaques. The makeshift stall of a banana vendor is on the left (Photo: Maan Barua).

Figure 3. Provisioning macaques. The makeshift stall of a banana vendor is on the left (Photo: Maan Barua).

Figure 4. A simplified heuristic showing the cultivated, feral and the wild, and their respective relations. The triad is a topology rather than typology; as beings shift from one category to another so do their prospective relations. Arrows are indicative of such shifts as well as gradations and overlaps between categories.

Figure 4. A simplified heuristic showing the cultivated, feral and the wild, and their respective relations. The triad is a topology rather than typology; as beings shift from one category to another so do their prospective relations. Arrows are indicative of such shifts as well as gradations and overlaps between categories.