Description: The collection brings together theoretical discussions and rigorous empirical analysis by key scholars in order to move Urban Political Ecology into current debates about urbanization and climate change.
Review Quotes:
'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
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