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New publication on UPE! Thank you to Timos Karpouzoglou, Sumit Vij, Mary Lawhon, Gloria Nsangi Nakyagaba, David Nilsson and Katarina Larsen for their insightful paper 'What's behind the infrastructure? A framework for analysing modern and modest infrastructure'.
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What's behind the infrastructure? A framework for analysing modern and modest infrastructure - Timos Karpouzoglou, Sumit Vij, Mary Lawhon, Gloria Nsangi Nakyagaba, David Nilsson, Katarina Larsen, 2026
Modern infrastructure has long dominated scholarly conversations, but there is growing attention paid to alternatives in and beyond the global south. Modern inf...
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September 14, 2026 at 8:46 AM
New publication on UPE! Thank you to Timos Karpouzoglou, Sumit Vij, Mary Lawhon, Gloria Nsangi Nakyagaba, David Nilsson and Katarina Larsen for their insightful paper 'What's behind the infrastructure? A framework for analysing modern and modest infrastructure'.
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August 25, 2026 at 10:15 AM
The August 2026 issue is out! Read UPE's latest fully accessible issue here: journals.sagepub.com/toc/UPE/curr...
New publication on Urban Political Ecology: 'Unmasking urban resilience: Environmental justice and the political ecology of “resilient cities” by Rodrigo Mutis. We are grateful to the author for the very interesting paper!
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Unmasking urban resilience: Environmental justice and the political ecology of “resilient cities” - Rodrigo Mutis, 2026
The paradigm of the “resilient city” has been widely adopted by urban governments and global agendas. However, far from being a neutral tool for sustainability,...
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August 21, 2026 at 6:08 PM
New publication on Urban Political Ecology: 'Unmasking urban resilience: Environmental justice and the political ecology of “resilient cities” by Rodrigo Mutis. We are grateful to the author for the very interesting paper!
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New publication on Urban Political Ecology! Many thanks to Josie Wittmer for her excellent paper 'Infrastructural anxieties: Navigating the extended pauses of in situ slum redevelopment in India'.
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August 17, 2026 at 8:19 AM
New publication on Urban Political Ecology! Many thanks to Josie Wittmer for her excellent paper 'Infrastructural anxieties: Navigating the extended pauses of in situ slum redevelopment in India'.
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New publication on Urban Political Ecology: 'Matters of care in transportation: Addressing disabling environments in the movement for care-full transitions'. Many thanks to authors Aryana Soliz and Sébastien Jodoin!
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August 3, 2026 at 1:55 PM
New publication on Urban Political Ecology: 'Matters of care in transportation: Addressing disabling environments in the movement for care-full transitions'. Many thanks to authors Aryana Soliz and Sébastien Jodoin!
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Call for papers for Urban Political Ecology! Please check it out and consider submitting a paper for the upcoming Special Issue 'Reimagining Urban Political Ecology from China', organised by Yifei Li and Xuefei Ren.
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July 25, 2026 at 10:15 AM
Call for papers for Urban Political Ecology! Please check it out and consider submitting a paper for the upcoming Special Issue 'Reimagining Urban Political Ecology from China', organised by Yifei Li and Xuefei Ren.
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New publication on Urban Political Ecology! Thank you to Willem R. Boterman for his fascinating paper 'Political ecologies of Dutch protein strategies'.
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July 24, 2026 at 8:45 AM
New publication on Urban Political Ecology! Thank you to Willem R. Boterman for his fascinating paper 'Political ecologies of Dutch protein strategies'.
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New paper on Urban Political Ecology: 'The ultimate learning outcome of transformative sustainability education: A case for ecocentric dispositions' by Alayna Paolini, Shihua Tan, Robert VanWynsberghe and Jasmine Lambert. Thank you to authors for their groundbreaking paper.
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The ultimate learning outcome of transformative sustainability education: A case for ecocentric dispositions - Alayna Paolini, Shihua Tan, Robert VanWynsberghe, Jasmine Lambert, 2026
Transformative sustainability education can empower us to change the dominant human story – a story that features societies working against nature – to one wher...
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July 24, 2026 at 8:45 AM
New paper on Urban Political Ecology: 'The ultimate learning outcome of transformative sustainability education: A case for ecocentric dispositions' by Alayna Paolini, Shihua Tan, Robert VanWynsberghe and Jasmine Lambert. Thank you to authors for their groundbreaking paper.
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New publication on Urban Political Ecology! Many thanks to Kimberly Noronha for the excellent paper 'The canary in the coal mine: Understanding climate change through the language of “sea attacks” in Kochi’s urban fisher communities'.
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June 15, 2026 at 8:15 AM
New publication on Urban Political Ecology! Many thanks to Kimberly Noronha for the excellent paper 'The canary in the coal mine: Understanding climate change through the language of “sea attacks” in Kochi’s urban fisher communities'.
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New paper on Urban Political Ecology! 'Articulating ecologies – A critical and constructive approach to urban design and planning' by Nils Björling. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Articulating ecologies – A critical and constructive approach to urban design and planning - Nils Björling, 2026
Large-scale industrial investments are currently initiated in Northern Sweden, targeting regions previously considered metropolitan peripheries. A turning point...
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June 4, 2026 at 9:00 AM
New paper on Urban Political Ecology! 'Articulating ecologies – A critical and constructive approach to urban design and planning' by Nils Björling. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
New paper on Urban Political Ecology: 'Imagining the urban care infrastructures for freedom: On the transformation of labour and care in Tokyo's collective childcare' by Didi Kyoung-ae Han. Stay tuned for the upcoming special issue.
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May 20, 2026 at 1:01 PM
New paper on Urban Political Ecology: 'Imagining the urban care infrastructures for freedom: On the transformation of labour and care in Tokyo's collective childcare' by Didi Kyoung-ae Han. Stay tuned for the upcoming special issue.
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The April 2026 issue is out! Read UPE's latest fully accessible issue here: journals.sagepub.com/toc/UPE/curr...
Urban Political Ecology - Volume 2, Number 1
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April 29, 2026 at 8:41 AM
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New paper on Urban Political Ecology: 'Reterritorialisation process through commoning in the context of the Capitalocene', by Ioannis Rigkos-Zitthen and Nikos Kapitsinis.
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Reterritorialisation process through commoning in the context of the Capitalocene - Ioannis Rigkos-Zitthen, Nikos Kapitsinis, 2026
In this article, we aim to highlight the importance of practices of commoning as a way to rethink politics, particularly in the context of the Capitalocene. Spe...
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April 2, 2026 at 7:02 AM
New paper on Urban Political Ecology: 'Reterritorialisation process through commoning in the context of the Capitalocene', by Ioannis Rigkos-Zitthen and Nikos Kapitsinis.
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New publication on Urban Political Ecology, with thanks to Matthew Gandy: 'Urban political ecology: Recovering the subject'.
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March 25, 2026 at 8:58 AM
New publication on Urban Political Ecology, with thanks to Matthew Gandy: 'Urban political ecology: Recovering the subject'.
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New publication on Urban Political Ecology! 'Narrating commons institutions through Ostrom and Barad—Insights from l’Asilo, Naples' by Riccardo Buonanno and Maria Patrizia Vittoria.
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Narrating commons institutions through Ostrom and Barad—Insights from l’Asilo, Naples - Riccardo Buonanno, Maria Patrizia Vittoria, 2026
Urban commons have been innovating European municipal politics for more than a decade through the establishment of new institutions. Naples is a laboratory wher...
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March 23, 2026 at 8:25 AM
New publication on Urban Political Ecology! 'Narrating commons institutions through Ostrom and Barad—Insights from l’Asilo, Naples' by Riccardo Buonanno and Maria Patrizia Vittoria.
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Very excited for UPE's second 2026 paper, by Neil Brenner and Swarnabh Ghosh: 'Environments of urbanization'
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Environments of urbanization* - Neil Brenner, Swarnabh Ghosh, 2026
This essay draws on the dialectical philosophy of science developed by ecologist Richard Levins and evolutionary geneticist Richard C. Lewontin—perhaps best kno...
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February 27, 2026 at 10:13 AM
Very excited for UPE's second 2026 paper, by Neil Brenner and Swarnabh Ghosh: 'Environments of urbanization'
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First paper in 2026! 'The urban heat metabolism: The politics of source, profit, and scale' by Federico Savini.
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The urban heat metabolism: The politics of source, profit, and scale - Federico Savini, 2026
Energy transition debates too often conceal the political ecology of the urban heat transition; they do not explain the politics underlying the shift to post- o...
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February 26, 2026 at 11:52 AM
First paper in 2026! 'The urban heat metabolism: The politics of source, profit, and scale' by Federico Savini.
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Second special issue on Urban Political Ecology: "Theorising the urban from the outside-in, in-between and beyond: Reflections on the legacy of Roger Keil’s scholarship". Many thanks to the numerous, wonderful colleagues who contributed to this issue!
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December 4, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Second special issue on Urban Political Ecology: "Theorising the urban from the outside-in, in-between and beyond: Reflections on the legacy of Roger Keil’s scholarship". Many thanks to the numerous, wonderful colleagues who contributed to this issue!
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'The threads that connect us: Epidemiological logistics ecologies of extended urbanization', by Raphael Aguiar, Yannis Tzaninis, Tait Mandler and Maria Kaika.
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The threads that connect us: Epidemiological logistics ecologies of extended urbanization - Raphael Aguiar, Yannis Tzaninis, Tait Mandler, Maria Kaika, 2025
A crusader for the margins, Roger Keil went as far as calling planet Earth ‘suburban’ in his book Suburban planet: Making the world urban from the outside in. T...
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November 24, 2025 at 8:21 AM
'The threads that connect us: Epidemiological logistics ecologies of extended urbanization', by Raphael Aguiar, Yannis Tzaninis, Tait Mandler and Maria Kaika.
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'Theorising the urban from the outside-in, in-between and beyond: Reflections on the legacy of Roger Keil’s scholarship' by Chiara Camponeschi and Michele Acuto:
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November 21, 2025 at 10:05 AM
'Theorising the urban from the outside-in, in-between and beyond: Reflections on the legacy of Roger Keil’s scholarship' by Chiara Camponeschi and Michele Acuto:
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'Probiotic urbanisation and the genealogies of filth' by Aaron Bradshaw, in conversation with earlier publication on UPE 'Filth and the city' by Jamie Lorimer, Roger Keil, Simon Goldhill and Julie-Anne Boudreau.
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November 12, 2025 at 9:54 AM
'Probiotic urbanisation and the genealogies of filth' by Aaron Bradshaw, in conversation with earlier publication on UPE 'Filth and the city' by Jamie Lorimer, Roger Keil, Simon Goldhill and Julie-Anne Boudreau.
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'Attending to the unsettled' by AbdouMaliq Simone, Kian Goh, and Ross Beveridge.
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November 12, 2025 at 9:52 AM
'Attending to the unsettled' by AbdouMaliq Simone, Kian Goh, and Ross Beveridge.
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'Governing a sub/urban planet' by Jean-Paul D. Addie, Julie-Anne Boudreau, Sean Hertel, Murat Üçoğlu.
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November 12, 2025 at 9:51 AM
'Governing a sub/urban planet' by Jean-Paul D. Addie, Julie-Anne Boudreau, Sean Hertel, Murat Üçoğlu.
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'Two decades under the influence of urbanization and infectious disease' by Creighton Connolly, S. Harris Ali, and Michele Acuto.
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Two decades under the influence of urbanization and infectious disease - Creighton Connolly, S. Harris Ali, Michele Acuto, 2025
This article outlines the major aspects of Roger Keil's contributions to the study of the relationship between cities and infectious disease to date. We su...
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November 12, 2025 at 9:50 AM
'Two decades under the influence of urbanization and infectious disease' by Creighton Connolly, S. Harris Ali, and Michele Acuto.
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New publications on UPE just before the upcoming special issue on Roger Keil's contributions: 'The materiality of urbanization: Politics, regions, and networks in the work of Roger Keil' by Stefan Kipfer, Philip Harrison, and Xuefei Ren:
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November 12, 2025 at 9:49 AM
New publications on UPE just before the upcoming special issue on Roger Keil's contributions: 'The materiality of urbanization: Politics, regions, and networks in the work of Roger Keil' by Stefan Kipfer, Philip Harrison, and Xuefei Ren:
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