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“What can be done? This book is a must-read for activists, scholars and scholar- activists who struggle for a better and more equal world.” Giorgos Kallis, ICREA professor, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain URBAN POLITICAL ECOLOGY IN THE ANTHROPO- OBSCENE Urban Political Ecology in the Anthropo-o bscene: Interruptions and Possibilities centres on how to organize anew the articulation between emancipatory theory and political activism. Across its theoretical and empirical chapters, written by leading scholars from anthropology, geography, urban studies, and political science, the book explores new political possibilities that are opening up in an age marked by proliferating contestations, sharpening socio- ecological inequalities, and planetary processes of urbanization and environmental change. A deepened conversation between urban environmental studies and political theory is mobilized to chart a radically new direction for the field of urban political ecology and cognate disciplines: What could emancipatory politics be about in our time? What does a return of the political under the aegis of equality and freedom signal today in theory and in practice? How do political movements emerge that could re-i nvent equality and freedom as actually existing socio-e cological practices? The hope is to contribute discussions that can expand and rearrange critical environmental studies to remain relevant in a time of deepening depoliticization and the rise of post- truth politics. Urban Political Ecology in the Anthropo- obscene will be of interest to postgraduates, established scholars, and upper level undergraduates from any discipline or field with an interest in the interface between the urban, the environment, and the political, including: geography, urban studies, environmental studies, and political science. 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. QUESTIONING CITIES The ‘Questioning Cities’ series brings together an unusual mix of urban scholars under the title. Rather than taking a broadly economic approach, planning approach or more socio- cultural approach, it aims to include titles from a multi- disciplinary field of those interested in critical urban analysis. The series thus includes authors who draw on contemporary social, urban and critical theory to explore different aspects of the city. It is not therefore a series made up of books which are largely case studies of different cities and predominantly descriptive. It seeks instead to extend current debates through, in most cases, excellent empirical work, and to develop sophisticated understandings of the city from a number of disciplines including geography, sociology, politics, planning, cultural studies, philosophy and literature. The series also aims to be thoroughly international where possible, to be innovative, to surprise, and to challenge received wisdom in urban studies. Overall it will encourage a multi- disciplinary and international dialogue always bearing in mind that simple description or empirical observation which is not located within a broader theoretical framework would not – for this series at least – be enough. Urban Cosmopolitics Agencements, assemblies, atmospheres Edited by Anders Blok and Ignacio Farías Urban Political Ecology in the Anthropo- obscene Interruptions and Possibilities Edited by Henrik Ernstson and Erik Swyngedouw For more information about this series, please visit: www.routledge.com/ Questioning- Cities/ book- series/ SE0756 URBAN POLITICAL ECOLOGY IN THE ANTHROPO- OBSCENE Interruptions and Possibilities Edited by Henrik Ernstson and Erik Swyngedouw First published 2019 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN and by Routledge 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2019 selection and editorial matter, Henrik Ernstson and Erik Swyngedouw; individual chapters, the contributors The right of Henrik Ernstson and Erik Swyngedouw to be identified as the authors of the editorial material, and of the authors for their individual chapters, has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. British Library Cataloguing- in- Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data A catalog record has been requested for this book ISBN: 978- 1- 138- 62918- 9 (hbk) ISBN: 978- 1- 138- 62919- 6 (pbk) ISBN: 978- 1- 315- 21053- 7 (ebk) Typeset in Bembo by Newgen Publishing UK CONTENTS List of illustrations x List of contributors xii Preface and acknowledgements xvii Introduction 1 1 Politicizing the environment in the urban century 3 Henrik Ernstson and Erik Swyngedouw PART I The political 23 2 O Tempora! O Mores! Interrupting the Anthropo- obScene 25 Erik Swyngedouw and Henrik Ernstson 3 Value, nature, and the vortex of accumulation 48 Richard Walker and Jason W. Moore 4 “Hic Rhodus, hic salta!” Postcolonial remains and the politics of the Anthropo- ob(S)cene 69 Andrés Fabián Henao Castro and Henrik Ernstson viii Contents PART II The situated 89 5 Political ecologies of dispossession and anticorruption: A radical politics for the Anthropocene? 91 Malini Ranganathan and Sapana Doshi 6 Uneven racial development and the abolition ecology of the city 111 Nik Heynen 7 Suffocating cities: Climate change as social- ecological violence 129 Jonathan Silver 8 Multi-v ocal urban political ecology: In search of new sensibilities 148 Garth Myers 9 Paved paradise: The suburb as chief artefact of the Anthropocene and terrain of new political performativities 165 Roger Keil 10 Of ghosts, waste, and the Anthropocene 184 Marco Armiero PART III The performative 203 11 Exhibiting division, seizing the state: The Natural History Museum 205 Jodi Dean 12 All that was directly lived 223 Andy Merrifield 13 Reclaiming a scholarship of presence: Building alternative socio- environmental imaginaries 239 Maria Kaika Contents ix Conclusion 253 14 Bringing back the political: Egalitarian acting, performative theory 255 Henrik Ernstson and Erik Swyngedouw Index 268
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