Titlebook: Urban Awakenings; Disturbance and Ench Samuel Alexander,Brendan Gleeson Book 2020 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under ex

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Grave Matters: Death in the Liveable City (Part I)ly end in system default and transformation. The inevitable question of death in the liveable city is invoked, leading us to tramp towards its starkest historical urban forms, three of Melbourne’s cemeteries. Here we find in the camps of the dead the denial and contortion of mortality that so define

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Guardians of Gandolfo Gardens save the multitude of old-growth trees surrounding Moreland station, planted a century prior. Was this activist engagement successful? Perhaps winning the war is less important than the spirit with which one enters the urban fray. We read about, observe, and participate in this unsuccessful resista

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Tramping Against Extinction: Counter-Friction to the Machinetersection to disrupt the city with the goal of bringing attention to the unfolding climate emergency. We tramp with Extinction Rebellion not because we think this movement has it all figured out, but because it’s worth sticking the crowbar into the cracks of capitalism at any and every opportunity

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The Monumental Army that Marches on the Spotamps are startled on this sojourn by the sudden intrusion of one of these stony monuments in everyday life. Here, we awaken an army of the dead, inspecting, as never really done, the credentials of their claims to history. Often as not, statues tell the keen eye a story of capitalist violence and ex

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Sisyphus in the Suburbs: Pushing the Rockastructure, and underlying political economy, only to watch the rock fall down the other side. We are told by Camus that we must imagine Sisyphus happy and that we should let the struggle in an absurd universe fill our hearts. As we train to and from this once outer suburb (now merely in the middle

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Virtually Tramping Through Post-Normal Timeson of everything, including neoliberal urbanism. After a short pause, the tramps realise this is just a new (if now deathly) field of the industrial capitalist order we had set out to examine. With this insight, we resume our tramping under the particularly strong conditions of the lockdown in the S