Urban Political Ecology in the Anthropo-Obscene - Interruptions and Possibilities

Sommario

Introduction 1. Politicizing the Environment in the Urban Century Henrik Ernstson and Erik Swyngedouw Section I: The Political 2. O Tempora! O Mores! Interrupting the Anthropo-obScene Erik Swyngedouw and Henrik Ernstson 3. Value, Nature and The Vortex of Accumulation Richard Walker and Jason W. Moore 4."Hic Rhodus, Hic Salta!" Postcolonial Remains and the Politics of the Anthropo-ob(S)cene Andrés Fabián Henao Castro and Henrik Ernstson Section II: The Situated 5. Political Ecologies of Dispossession and Anticorruption: A Radical Politics for the Anthropocene? Malini Ranganathan and Sapana Doshi 6. Uneven Racial Development and the Abolition Ecology of the City Nik Heynen 7. Suffocating Cities: Climate Change as Social-ecological Violence Jonathan Silver 8. Multi-vocal Urban Political Ecology: In Search of New Sensibilities Garth Myers 9. Paved Paradise: The Suburb as Chief Artefact of the Anthropocene and Terrain of New Political Performativities Roger Keil 10. Of Ghosts, Waste and the Anthropocene Marco Armiero Section III: The Performative 11. Exhibiting Division, Seizing the State: The Natural History Museum Jodi Dean 12. All that Was Directly Lived Andy Merrifield 13. Reclaiming a Scholarship of Presence: Building Alternative Socio-environmental Imaginaries Maria Kaika Conclusion 14. Bringing Back the Political: Egalitarian Acting, Performative Theory Henrik Ernstson and Erik Swyngedouw

Info autore

Henrik Ernstson is Lecturer in Human Geography at The University of Manchester, UK.
Erik Swyngedouw is Professor of Geography at The University of Manchester, UK.

Riassunto

Urban Political Ecology in the Anthropo-obscene: Interruptions and Possibilities centres on how to organize anew the articulation between emancipatory theory and political activism.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Henrik Swyngedouw Ernstson
• Con la collaborazione di: Henrik Ernstson (Editore), Ernstson Henrik (Editore), Erik Swyngedouw (Editore), Swyngedouw Erik (Editore)
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 11.12.2018
• EAN: 9781138629189
• ISBN: 978-1-138-62918-9
• Pagine: 272
• Serie: Questioning Cities
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze politiche > Scienze politiche e cittadinanza attiva; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, The environment, Science / Environmental Science, Human Geography, Urban communities, Settlement, urban and rural geography, Development and environmental geography, Urban communities / city life