Turning Up the Heat: Urban Political Ecology for a Climate Emergency

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Since the field of Urban Political Ecology (UPE) emerged in the 1990s, it has focused on unsettling traditional understandings of the 'city' as an ontological entity separate from 'nature' or 'the environment'. This volume seeks to turn UPE's critical energies towards a politically engaging debate over what role extensive urbanization processes can and should play 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, in order to move UPE squarely into current debates about urbanization and climate change. The editors put forth an integrated UPE agenda that is enriched, not split, by the expansion of the scope of its inquiry and well-suited to address contemporary environmental issues in theory and practice.

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 -- .

'Turning up the heat is an ambitious book that delivers what it promises, a bringing together of the proliferating field of urban political ecology, to take stock, but moreover, to move on. In a hotter world with increasing social inequality, it will function as inspiration for scholarship and political ecological action for many and for years to come.' Henrik Ernstson, Associate Professor and Docent in Political Ecology at KTH Royal Institute of Technology and Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Manchester 'Turning up the heat makes a brilliant contribution to critical scholarship. Here is a rich and much-needed collection of cases and critiques that pushes us to theorise the urban from its margins. It demands creative modes of political thought and action to confront a world of environmental destruction, authoritarianism, and economic inequality.' Malini Ranganathan, Associate Professor, American University, and co-author of Corruption Plots: Stories, Ethics, and Publics of the Late Capitalist City -- .