Urban Political Ecology
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.
Yannis Tzaninis | University of Antwerp, Belgium |
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 |
Maria Kaika | University of Amsterdam, Netherlands |
Roger Keil | York University, Toronto, Canada |
Matthew Gandy | University of Cambridge, UK |
Nik Heynen | University of Georgia, USA |
Erik Swyngedouw | University of Manchester, UK |
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 |