Turning Up the Heat

Maria Kaika is Professor in Urban and Environmental Planning at the University of AmsterdamRoger Keil is Professor in the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change, York University, CanadaTait Mandler is a postdoctoral researcher in the Knowledge, Technology, and Innovation group at Wageningen UniversityYannis Tzaninis is a researcher in the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences at the University of Amsterdam

'Turning up the heat is an ambitious book that delivers what it promises, a bringing together of the proliferating field of urban political ecology, to take stock, but moreover, to move on. In a hotter world with increasing social inequality, it will function as inspiration for scholarship and political ecological action for many and for years to come.'Henrik Ernstson, Associate Professor and Docent in Political Ecology at KTH Royal Institute of Technology and Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Manchester‘Turning up the heat makes a brilliant contribution to critical scholarship. Here is a rich and much-needed collection of cases and critiques that pushes us to theorise the urban from its margins. It demands creative modes of political thought and action to confront a world of environmental destruction, authoritarianism, and economic inequality.’Malini Ranganathan, Associate Professor, American University, and co-author of Corruption Plots: Stories, Ethics, and Publics of the Late Capitalist City'A pertinent contribution to UPE scholarship as it brings together a diversity of authors (from the global North and global South) to discuss theory and praxis in relation to what role urbanization could and should play in addressing socio-environmental equality within the context of climate change and related rifts. The volume is also a valuable literature to anyone: policymaker, practitioner or layperson, who wants to unpick further the nuances of the ‘urbanization of nature’ and ‘extended urbanization’, the role of past and present socio-economic factors and place in urban inequalities, and their significance for addressing our current climate emergency.'Hannah Lee, Environment & Urbanization'Turning Up the Heat is not just an academic achievement, it is a sharp political critique exposing the myriad forces driving deeply uneven socio-spatial relations and indeed environmental breakdown—ranging from systems of extraction, to racialized urbanism, infectious diseases, modernist planning and international experts and populist rhetoric, to name but a few.'Greet De Block, Urban Studies

• Prologue: Losing California – The political ecology of the megafires - Mike DavisIntroduction - Urban political ecology for a climate emergency – Yannis Tzaninis, Tait Mandler, Maria Kaika, and Roger KeilPart I: Extended urbanisation: Moving UPE beyond the 'urbanisation of nature' thesis1 Capital’s natures: A critique of (urban) political ecology – Erik Swyngedouw2 Urban political ecology versus ecological urbanism – Matthew Gandy3 Towards the urban-natural: Notes on urban utopias from the decolonial turn – Roberto Luís Monte-Mór and Ester Limonad4 Circuits of extraction and the metabolism of urbanisation – Martín Arboleda5 Hinterlands of the Capitalocene – Neil Brenner and Nikos KatsikisPart II: Situated urban political ecologies6 The case for reparations, urban political ecology, and the Black right to urban life – Nik Heynen and Nikki Luke7 Urban climate change and feminist political ecology – Andrea J. Nightingale8 Nairobi’s bad natures – Wangui Kimari9 Situating suburban ecologies in the Global South: Notes from India’s urban periphery – Shubhra Gururani10 Infrastructure beyond the modern ideal: Thinking through heterogeneity, serendipity, and autonomy in African cities – Mary Lawhon, Anesu Makina, and Gloria Nsangi NakyagabaPart III: More-than-human urban political ecologies and relational geographies11 Extending the boundaries of ‘urban society’: The urban political ecologies and pathologies of Ebola virus disease in West Africa – Roger Keil, S. Harris Ali, and Stefan Treffers12 In formation: Urban political ecology for a world of flows – Kian Goh13 Insurgent earth: Territorialist political ecology in/for the new climate regime – Camilla PerronePart IV: Addressing disjunctions between policy, politics, and academic debate14 Populist political ecologies? Urban political ecology, authoritarian populism, and the suburbs – Alex Loftus and Joris Gort15 Greenwashing and greywashing: New ideologies of nature in urban sustainability policy – David Wachsmuth and Hillary Angelo16 The peasant way or the urban way? Why disidentification matters for emancipatory politics – Irina Velicu17 Urbanising islands: A critical history of Singapore’s offshore islands – Creighton Connolly and Hamzah Muzaini18 The circular economy of cities: The good, the bad, and the ugly – Federico SaviniEpilogue: Is an integrated UPE research and policy agenda possible? – Tait Mandler, Roger Keil, Yannis Tzaninis, and Maria KaikaIndex