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Urban political ecology (UPE) has been conceptually influential and empirically robust, however the field has mainly focused on the way cities are metabolically linked and networked with resource flows and ecological processes. Currently, in the face of climate change challenges, scholars working on UPE are taking the field in new directions: from expanding the field of enquiry to include more than human actors, to shifting the geographical focus to overlooked peripheries, the Global South or the suburbs. Although cities are framed by the New Urban Agenda, adopted by the UN Habitat 2016, as central actors, the very ontological status of cities is also questioned, with important implications for UPE. We argue that in order to answer these emerging questions we need renewed, qualified, conceptually robust and empirically substantiated research that does not come from already privileged vintage points or geographical locations. This book launches an inquiry into a UPE better informed by situated knowledges; an embodied UPE, that puts equal attention to the role of more than -human ontologies and processes of capital accumulation. The book aims to extend UPE analysis to new places and perspectives. As discussions regarding the environment are now dominated by policy makers, planners and politicians, it is more crucial than ever, we argue to maintain a critical engagement with mainstream policy and academic debates.
nature. The aim of this edited volume is to showcase urban political ecology (henceforth UPE) as an intervention – in theory, methodology, and practice – to the socio-environmental emergencies of the twenty-first century. Understanding extended urbanisation to be both a political and an ecological matter of concern, we argue that climate change is a socio-environmental condition that
an ‘extended urbanisation’ that redefines life space itself (Monte-Mór, 2014a [ 1994 ], 2018a ). Therefore, the urban-natural should be seen, initially, as an outcome of the centripetal movement of nature coming to meet along its own ways, dialectically, the urban-industrial tissue centrifugal movement onto the countryside, virtually encompassing the totality of social space
Gurgaon, it is the peculiar interplay of land and water that contours the politics of ecology amid extended urbanisation and climate change. By focusing on the politics of land and water simultaneously and weaving it with ethnographic sensibilities of place, this chapter suggests that to understand the ecology of urbanisation in the Global South it is imperative to situate suburban
We set out from three premises. First, that the historical conditions of climate change are intimately linked to the processes and production of new (historically particular) forms of extended urbanisation. Second, that urban political ecology, as a heterodox field, is well suited to examine these linkages. Third, that such a task may nonetheless require a renewed and revitalised integrated
of the relationships of cities and infectious disease as a problem of the political ecology of extended urbanisation in a moment of intensified climate emergency. As the world continues to flirt with unprecedented climate change and species extinction, it appears humans are claiming ever-more space and putting more and exceedingly damaging
the climate crisis – the political-ecological and the social – from an urban political ecology (UPE) perspective addressed in the 1990s and recently reframed within the discourse of extended urbanisation (Keil, 2018a ; Brenner and Schmid, 2015 ), postcolonial, feminist, and Global South scholarship, comparative and southern urbanism (Lawhon et
the Introduction, there is a rapidly growing literature on the nature of suburbs, peri-urban areas, urban frontiers, extended urbanisation, edge spaces and margins. Indeed, one might ask what room there is for further conceptual generativity and analytical novelty on this topic. Yet the nature of urban peripheries in Africa is even more diverse, and evolving even more quickly, than the literature itself
domination, and unequal ecological exchange through which they are constituted. As such, even within the definitionally specific parameters demarcated above, the hinterland concept should be used only with utmost reflexivity and precision, and as no more than a ‘first cut’ towards a broader inquiry into the problematique of extended urbanisation
-than-urban geographies bound up with planetary, or extended urbanisation (Tzaninis et al., 2021 : 332). Though Singapore is ideologically constructed as an independent island city without a hinterland to draw upon, it is in fact heavily dependent upon its material connections to its offshore islands that are separated from, but still deeply connected to the centre. The empirical section of the