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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. -- .
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