Description
Since its emergence in the 1990s, the field of Urban Political Ecology (UPE) has focused on unsettling traditional understandings of the 'city' as entirely distinct from nature, showing instead how cities are metabolically linked with ecological processes and the flow of resources. More recently, a new generation of scholars has turned the focus towards the climate emergency. Turning up the heat seeks to turn UPE's critical energies towards a politically engaged debate over the role of extensive urbanisation in addressing socio-environmental equality in the context of climate change.
The collection brings together theoretical discussions and rigorous empirical analysis by key scholars spanning three generations, engaging UPE in current debates about urbanisation and climate change. Engaging with cutting edge approaches including feminist political ecology, circular economies, and the Anthropocene, case studies in the book range from Singapore and Amsterdam to Nairobi and Vancouver. Contributors make the case for a UPE better informed by situated knowledges: an embodied UPE that pays equal attention to the role of postcolonial processes and more-than-human ontologies of capital accumulation within the context of the climate emergency. Acknowledging UPE's rich intellectual history and aiming to enrich rather than split the field, Turning up the heat reveals how UPE is ideally positioned to address contemporary environmental issues in theory and practice.Author: Maria Kaika
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 02/21/2023
Pages: 400
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.20w x 1.20d
ISBN13: 9781526167996
ISBN10: 1526167999
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Human Geography
- Social Science | Sociology | Urban
- Political Science | Public Policy | Regional Planning
About the Author
Maria Kaika is Professor in Urban and Environmental Planning at the University of Amsterdam
Roger Keil is Professor in the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change, York University, Canada Tait Mandler is a postdoctoral researcher in the Knowledge, Technology, and Innovation group at Wageningen University Yannis Tzaninis is a researcher in the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences at the University of Amsterdam