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Urban Political Ecology

Urban Political Ecology

eISSN: 30497515 | ISSN: 30497515

Urban Political Ecology is an interdisciplinary journal that publishes state-of-the-art scholarship primarily rooted in the field of urban political ecology (UPE), along with related disciplines. The journal focuses on broad themes relating to urbanisation, including the role of politics in urban development, the mutual entanglement of structural inequalities in determining policies of urbanisation and the relationship with the natural environment, among others. Urban Political Ecology will publish three issues per volume – in April, August and December – including special issues on topical themes and novel areas of research.

The journal was inspired by Turning up the Heat, the 2023 Manchester University Press book that engages with cutting edge approaches for contemporary UPE. Turning up the Heat is a comprehensive collection of UPE scholarship that spans the globe and provides the foundations for Urban Political Ecology.

The Journal of Urban Political Ecology is an interdisciplinary journal that publishes state-ofthe-art scholarship primarily rooted in the field of urban political ecology (UPE), along with related disciplines. Since its emergence in the 1990s, the field of UPE has focused on unsettling traditional understandings of the ‘city’ as entirely distinct from nature. Instead, it highlights the intricate metabolic connections between cities and ecological processes and the flow of resources. The journal encourages publications from scholars who channel their critical energies towards a politically engaged debate over the role of extensive urbanisation in addressing socio-environmental politics and inequality, especially in the context of contemporary, global environmental crises.

Our primary focus revolves around extended urbanisation, nature, politics, more-than-human ontologies, post-colonialism, degrowth and the Anthropocene/Capitalocene. We go beyond rigid orthodoxies conceptually and empirically, and welcome diverse, heterodox perspectives that challenge the canonical paradigms in the fields of urban studies, geography, sociology, anthropology, political ecology and environmental studies. The journal was inspired by Turning up the Heat, the 2023 Manchester University Press book that engages with cutting edge approaches for contemporary UPE. Turning up the Heat is a seminal collection of UPE scholarship that spans the globe and provides the foundations for the Journal of Urban Political Ecology. Thus, the journal seeks to develop 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, while aiming to enrich rather than split the UPE and its cognate fields.

Editor-in-Chief
Yannis Tzaninis University of Antwerp, Belgium
Associate Editors
Creighton Paul Connolly The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Wangui Kimari American University Nairobi Center, Kenya
Tait Mandler Wageningen University & Research, Netherlands
Suraya Scheba University of Cape Town, South Africa
Founding Editors
Maria Kaika University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Roger Keil York University, Toronto, Canada
Advising Editors
Matthew Gandy University of Cambridge, UK
Nik Heynen University of Georgia, USA
Erik Swyngedouw University of Manchester, UK
Editorial Board Members
Harris Ali York University, Toronto, Canada
Maan Barua University of Cambridge, UK
Nitin Bathla ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Bosman Batubara Utrecht University, Netherlands
Patrick Bigger Roosevelt Institute, USA
Willem Boterman University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Chiara Camponeschi York University, Toronto, Canada
Alida Cantor Portland State University, USA
Federico Cugurullo Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Greet De Block University of Antwerp, Belgium
Henrik Ernstson KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Kian Goh University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), USA
Joris Gort King's College London, UK
Shubhra Gururani York University, Toronto, Canada
Samir Harb Institut für Europäische Ethnologie, Germany
Joshua Ibanda Kyambogo University, Uganda
Nikos Katsikis TU Delft, Netherlands
Abidin Kusno York University, Toronto, Canada
Mary Lawhon University of Edinburgh, UK
Ester Limonad Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil
Nikki Luke University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA
Anesu Makina University of Cape Town, South Africa
Hug March Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain
Miriam Meissner Maastricht University, Netherlands
Roberto Luis Monte-Mor Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil
Garth A. Myers Trinity College, Connecticut, USA
Andrea Nightingale University of Oslo, Norway
Camilla Perrone University of Florence, Italy
Manolis Pratsinakis Harokopio University, Athens, Greece
Malini Ranganathan American University, Washington, DC, USA
Federico Savini University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Jonathan Silver University of Sheffield, UK
João Tonucci Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil
Gabriela Valdivia The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
Giorgos Velegrakis Harokopio University, Athens, Greece
Irina Velicu University of Coimbra, Portugal
Matthew Vitz University of California, San Diego (UCSD), USA

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