Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. List of figures vii
4. List of contributors ix
5. Acknowledgements xvi
6. Prologue xix
7. Introduction 1
8. I Extended urbanisation 35
9. 1 Capital’s natures 37
10. 2 Urban political ecology versus ecological urbanism 56
11. 3 Towards the urban-natural 67
12. 4 Circuits of extraction and the metabolism of urbanisation 91
13. 5 Hinterlands of the Capitalocene 105
14. II Situated urban political ecologies 127
15. 6 The case for reparations, urban political ecology, and the Black right to urban life 129
16. 7 Urban climate change and feminist political ecology 143
17. 8 Nairobi’s bad natures 159
18. 9 Situating suburban ecologies in the Global South 169
19. 10 Infrastructure beyond the modern ideal 186
20. III More-than-human urban political ecologies and relational geographies 205
21. 11 Extending the boundaries of ‘urban society’ 207
22. 12 In formation 222
23. 13 Insurgent earth 244
24. IV Addressing disjunctions between policy, politics, and academic debate 263
25. 14 Populist political ecologies? Urban political ecology, authoritarian populism, and the suburbs 265
26. 15 Greenwashing and greywashing 284
27. 16 The peasant way or the urban way? Why disidentification matters for emancipatory politics 302
28. 17 Urbanising islands 319
29. 18 The circular economy of cities 333
30. Epilogue 347
31. Index 358