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The Political Ecology of Austerity explores the environmental
dimension of austerity that has thus far escaped academic, policy,
and media attention. Offering a better comprehension of the full
socio-environmental impact of austerity measures, the book
highlights the importance of considering environmental issues when
designing responses to economic crisis in the future. Mobilising
detailed case studies from across the world, the volume documents
the ways in which austerity impacts global and local ecologies,
shapes environmental conflicts and gives rise to new forms and
practices of social moblisation and resistance. Bringing together
theoretical debates and rigorous case studies, the book proposes
‘the political ecology of austerity’ as an appropriate method
of analysis that can inform our understanding of the shift in
environmental protection policies and the intensification of growth
practices (green or otherwise) that followed the 2008 global
economic crisis. The Political Ecology of Austerity discloses
austerity to be a globalised set of tools not only for budgetary
discipline, but also for socio-environmental discipline that
justifies the continuation of capital accumulation at the expense
of further global environmental degradation. This book will be of
great interest to students and scholars of social and political
sciences, environmental studies, urban studies, and political
ecology.
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. -- .
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. -- .
The Political Ecology of Austerity explores the environmental
dimension of austerity that has thus far escaped academic, policy,
and media attention. Offering a better comprehension of the full
socio-environmental impact of austerity measures, the book
highlights the importance of considering environmental issues when
designing responses to economic crisis in the future. Mobilising
detailed case studies from across the world, the volume documents
the ways in which austerity impacts global and local ecologies,
shapes environmental conflicts and gives rise to new forms and
practices of social moblisation and resistance. Bringing together
theoretical debates and rigorous case studies, the book proposes
'the political ecology of austerity' as an appropriate method of
analysis that can inform our understanding of the shift in
environmental protection policies and the intensification of growth
practices (green or otherwise) that followed the 2008 global
economic crisis. The Political Ecology of Austerity discloses
austerity to be a globalised set of tools not only for budgetary
discipline, but also for socio-environmental discipline that
justifies the continuation of capital accumulation at the expense
of further global environmental degradation. This book will be of
great interest to students and scholars of social and political
sciences, environmental studies, urban studies, and political
ecology.
The social and material production of urban nature has recently
emerged as an important area in urban studies, human/environmental
interactions and social studies. This has been prompted by the
recognition that the material conditions that comprise urban
environments are not independent from social, political, and
economic processes, or from the cultural construction of what
constitutes the 'urban' or the 'natural'. Through both theoretical
and empirical analysis, this groundbreaking collection offers an
integrated and relational approach to untangling the interconnected
processes involved in forming urban landscapes. The essays in this
book attest that the re-entry of the ecological agenda into urban
theory is vital both in terms of understanding contemporary
urbanization processes, and of engaging in a meaningful
environmental politics. They debate the central themes of whose
nature is, or becomes, urbanized, and the uneven power relations
through which this socio-metabolic transformation takes place.
Including urban case studies, international research and
contributions from prominent urban scholars, this volume will
enable students, scholars and researchers of geographical,
environmental and urban studies to better understand how
interrelated, everyday economic, political and cultural processes
form and transform urban environments.
Typically, cities and nature are perceived as geographic opposites,
cities being manufactured social creations, and nature being
outside of human construction. Through a historical geography of
water in the modern city, Kaika shows that this is not the case.
Rather, nature and the modern city are fully intertwined, with
cities integrating nature at every level of activity. While her
empirical focus is on Athens, she discusses other major cities in
the West, including London and New York.
Typically, cities and nature are perceived as geographic opposites,
cities being manufactured social creations, and nature being
outside of human construction. Through a historical geography of
water in the modern city, Kaika shows that this is not the case.
Rather, nature and the modern city are fully intertwined, with
cities integrating nature at every level of activity. While her
empirical focus is on Athens, she discusses other major cities in
the West, including London and New York.
The social and material production of urban nature has recently
emerged as an important area in urban studies, human/environmental
interactions and social studies. This has been prompted by the
recognition that the material conditions that comprise urban
environments are not independent from social, political, and
economic processes, or from the cultural construction of what
constitutes the 'urban' or the 'natural'. Through both theoretical
and empirical analysis, this groundbreaking collection offers an
integrated and relational approach to untangling the interconnected
processes involved in forming urban landscapes. The essays in this
book attest that the re-entry of the ecological agenda into urban
theory is vital both in terms of understanding contemporary
urbanization processes, and of engaging in a meaningful
environmental politics. They debate the central themes of whose
nature is, or becomes, urbanized, and the uneven power relations
through which this socio-metabolic transformation takes place.
Including urban case studies, international research and
contributions from prominent urban scholars, this volume will
enable students, scholars and researchers of geographical,
environmental and urban studies to better understand how
interrelated, everyday economic, political and cultural processes
form and transform urban environments.
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