Maan Barua

Maan Barua works on the politics, ontologies and economies of the living and material world. His current research is on metabolic urbanization and the politics of city-making. Maan is the author of Lively Cities: Reconfiguring Urban Ecology (University of Minnesota Press, 2023) and Plantation Worlds (Duke University Press, 2024). He was the PI on an ERC Horizon 2020 Starting Grant on Urban Ecologies, (2018-2025) and is a University Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Cambridge. At present, Maan is finishing a book and visual installation on urban wetlands, provisionally titled An Amphibious Urbanism.