Engaging with a series of human–plant encounters in Berlin, this article explores possibilities for rethinking the heterogeneity of urban life in the ruins of European nationalism and capitalism. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and revisiting Berlin’s postwar history of botanical research, I develop the concept of the ruderal and expand it for an anthropological inquiry of urban life. The term ruderal was originally used by Berlin ecologists after the Second World War to refer to ecologies that spontaneously inhabit disturbed environments: the spaces alongside train tracks or roads, wastelands, or rubble. Exploring Berlin as a ruderal city, I direct attention to the often unnoticed, cosmopolitan, and unruly ways of remaking the urban fabric at a time of increased nationalism and ecological destruction. Tracing human–plant socialities in encounters between scientists and rubble plants, in public culture, and among immigrants and their makeshift urban gardens, the lens of the ruderal directs ethnographic analysis toward the city’s unintended ecologies as these are produced in the context of nation-making, war, xenophobia, migration, environmental change, and contemporary austerity policies. Attending to ruderal worlds, I argue, requires telling stories that do not easily add up but that combine environmental perspectives with the study of migration, race, and social inequality—in the interest of mapping out possibilities for change. This framework thus expands a recent anthropological focus on ruins, infrastructure, and urban landscapes by highlighting questions of social justice that are at stake in emerging urban ecologies and an era of inhospitable environments.

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Ruderal生态学：重新思考柏林的自然，迁徙和城市景观

通过与柏林的一系列人与植物相遇，本文探索了重新思考欧洲民族主义和资本主义废墟中城市生活异质性的可能性。我借鉴民族志学的田野工作，回顾柏林战后植物学研究的历史，提出了the葬的概念，并将其扩展为人类学上对城市生活的研究。ruderal一词最初在第二次世界大战后被柏林生态学家使用，指的是自发地居住在受干扰的环境中的生态环境：火车轨道或道路，荒地或瓦砾旁边的空间。我将柏林视为一个仪的城市，我将注意力转向在民族主义和生态破坏加剧之时重建城市结构时通常不为人所注意，大都会和不守规矩的方式。在科学家与瓦砾植物之间，公共文化中以及移民及其临时城市花园之间的相遇中追踪人与植物之间的社会关系，the葬的镜头将人种学分析引向城市非预期的生态，因为这些生态是在国家建立的背景下产生的，战争，仇外心理，移民，环境变化和当代的紧缩政策。我认为，要进入统治世界，就必须讲一些不容易加在一起但将环境观点与移民，种族和社会不平等研究结合起来的故事，以期找出改变的可能性。因此，该框架扩大了人类学对遗址，基础设施，