Urban Political Ecology
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This working paper examines the concept of metabolism and its potential as a critical analytical lens to study the contemporary city from a political perspective. The paper illustrates how the metabolism concept has been used... more
The lake system of Bangalore has undergone structural changes, reflecting the thrust of urbanisation, over the years. This has been more acute in the later part of the 20th century. This paper tries to understand the re-engineering of... more
This paper explores the potential to converge the theory of political ecology with the environmental justice discipline as means to promote more effective civil society actions against macroeconomic risks, whilst analysing the case of... more
#OpenAccess: https://direct.mit.edu/books/book/4522/Grounding-Urban-NaturesHistories-and-Futures-of The global discourse around urban ecology tends to homogenize and universalize, relying on such terms as “smart cities,” “eco-cities,”... more
Book Review of Social Ecology and the Right to the City, University of Chicago Press. Published in 2019, the edited volume Social Ecology and the Right to the City grew out of a conference two years prior, organised by TRISE. The... more
If South Korea is currently blessed by an embellishment thanks to the persistent soft power policies and the taking over of a responsible and courageous political cohort, we won’t regret the dark hours when the activists’ contests were at... more
In recent years, the world has seen the emergence of a number of urban projects which, under the banner of experimentation, have promoted alternative models of city-making capable, in theory, of creating sustainable built environments.... more
L'altra faccia del verde urbano: luoghi abbandonati, "insicuri", spesso inquinati, ma da cui giungono segni di cambiamento, presagi di un futuro che ci aspetta. Una parte significativa degli spazi verdi delle nostre città si trova oggi in... more
The paper seeks to analyse the production of space and takes the pacification process of favelas as a case study to illustrate how state, residents, and other actors produce space and place.
The case for degrowth is a case for stopping the pursuit of growth and for reorienting lives and societies toward wellbeing. This chapter impels moves to build good lives for all, and shows how existing resources can be shared and... more
India’s urban infrastructure is maligned for its breakdowns, inefficiencies, and inequities, and popular resentment at dysfunctional infrastructure is constant in public life. This article focuses on the surprising desire for India’s... more
(Full paper delivered at Association of American Geographers (AAG) 2015 ) “Ruralize the urban: urbanize the rural:… Replete terram [fill the earth].” Alluding to a passage in Genesis, these words appear on the frontispiece of Spanish... more
This thesis is about the making of a power plant. It sheds light on how neoliberal ideas shape large public investments in sustainable energy infrastructure. It tells the story of how the City of Copenhagen decided to build what was... more
Over the last 20 years, urban political ecology has made substantial contributions to the study of urban 'socionatures', part of the field's aim of applying political ecology to urban space. At the same time, urban political ecology has... more
The city of Bangalore in southern India is rapidly expanding, resulting in major transformations in land use, wetland management, and the distribution of green spaces. This paper examines how transformations in land use and governance... more
¿Afronta actualmente el capitalismo el “fin de la naturaleza barata”? Si así es, ¿qué podría significar esto y cuáles con las implicaciones para el futuro? Estamos, de hecho, siendo testigos del fin de la naturaleza barata en un sentido... more
The development of projects for new eco-cities is rapidly becoming a global phenomenon. Alleged eco-cities are being built across a variety of spaces via processes of urbanisation triggering substantial environmental, social and economic... more
El presente libro aporta al estudio de las relaciones entre las desigualdades socio-económicas y los cambios ambientales en la urbanización de Bogotá, un tema de indudable trascendencia justo en un contexto mundial actual marcado por el... more
The article explores how nature becomes part of the city using an example of allotments in Prague, Czech Republic. Prague allotments result from an ongoing political-ecological process of urbanization of nature locally driven by a... more
Geographers have been at the forefront of interrogating the changes made possible by the ubiquity of computing and the phenomenon of 'big data' in an emerging field known as 'critical data studies'. In this article, I argue that... more
The racial and cultural politics of land and property are central to urban struggle, but have received relatively little attention in geography. This paper analyzes land struggles in Detroit where over 100,000 parcels of land are... more
En los últimos años la sociedad se ha percatado del engaño perpetrado por empresas y fabricantes, que conscientemente reducen la vida útil de sus productos y servicios para fomentar el consumo de los mismos. El concepto de obsolescencia... more
Özet: Yapıya ait hurdanın yeniden kullanıma sunulduğu alanlar olarak tanımlayabileceğimiz çıkmacılar, İstanbul'da 20. yüzyılın özellikle ikinci yarısındaki enformel kentleşme ile 2000 sonrasında ivme kazanan neoliberal kentleşme... more
This commentary makes a case for a more rigorous treatment of the body as a material and political site within the sub-field of urban political ecology. I propose an embodied urban political ecology grounded in a feminist, anti-racist and... more
In 2014, approximately 100,000 lots lie ‘‘vacant’’ in Detroit after decades of industrial decline, white flight, and poverty. Planners and government officials have proposed to repurpose Detroit’s highest vacancy neighborhoods, deemed to... more
Notions of connectivity and relationality increasingly pervade theories, discourses and practices of environmental governance. Recently, the concept of the ‘resource nexus’ has emerged as an important new framework that emphasises the... more
How should humans live with animals and other forms of life? Could responses to this question improve the health and wellbeing of the biosphere? This paper argues that design researchers ought to engage nonhuman lifeforms as... more
La nature en ville dans un contexte de densification, étude portant sur l'archéologie de l'écologie urbaine. Comportant une analyse comparative des processus d'urbanisation au 19ème et de gentrification au 21ème. Une recherche sur la... more
Over the last several decades, scholars and practitioners have progressively acknowledged that we cannot consider cities as the place where nature stops anymore, resulting in urban environments being increasingly appreciated and theorized... more
For many activists and scholars, urban agriculture in the Global North has become synonymous with sustainable food systems, standing in opposition to the dominant industrial agri-food system. At the same time, critical social scientists... more
Current debates about the Anthropocene have sparked renewed interest in the relationship between ecology, technology, and coloniality. How do humans relate to one another, to the living environment, and to their material or technological... more