Turning up the heat : urban political ecology for a climate emergency / edited by Maria Kaika, Roger Keil, Tait Mandler and Yannis Tzaninis.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Front matter -- Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Prologue: Losing California -- The political ecology of the megafires -- Introduction: Urban political ecology for a climate emergency -- Part I: Extended urbanisation: Moving UPE beyond the 'urbanisation of nature' thesis -- Capital's natures: A critique of (urban) political ecology -- Urban political ecology versus ecological urbanism -- Towards the urban-natural: Notes on urban utopias from the decolonial turn

Circuits of extraction and the metabolism of urbanisation -- Hinterlands of the Capitalocene -- Part II: Situated urban political ecologies -- The case for reparations, urban political ecology, and the Black right to urban life -- Urban climate change and feminist political ecology -- Nairobi's bad natures -- Situating suburban ecologies in the Global South: Notes from India's urban periphery -- Infrastructure beyond the modern ideal: Thinking through heterogeneity, serendipity, and autonomy in African cities -- Part III: More-than-human urban political ecologies and relational geographies

Extending the boundaries of 'urban society': The urban political ecologies and pathologies of Ebola virus disease in West Africa -- In formation: Urban political ecology for a world of flows -- Insurgent earth: Territorialist political ecology in/for the new climate regime -- Part IV: Addressing disjunctions between policy, politics, and academic debate -- Populist political ecologies? Urban political ecology, authoritarian populism, and the suburbs -- Greenwashing and greywashing: New ideologies of nature in urban sustainability policy

The peasant way or the urban way? Why disidentification matters for emancipatory politics -- Urbanising islands: A critical history of Singapore's offshore islands -- The circular economy of cities: The good, the bad, and the ugly -- Epilogue: Is an integrated UPE research and policy agenda possible? -- Index

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.

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