Urban Political Ecology in the Anthropo-obscene: Interruptions and Possibilities

Cover
Endorsement
Half Title
Series Information
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of contents
Illustrations
Contributors
Preface and acknowledgements
Introduction
	1 Politicizing the environment in the urban century
		Introduction
		A necessarily obscene interruption
		Seismic transformations of earthly dynamics
		Thinking, engaging, politicizing
		Concluding remarks
		Notes
		References
Part I The political
	2 O Tempora! O Mores!: Interrupting the Anthropo-obScene
		Introduction
		AnthropoScenes: Staging the Anthropocene
			A temporal disjuncture
			A symmetrical ontology
			A new cosmology
		From biopolitical governance to necropolitics
			The depoliticized politics of the Anthropocene: An immuno-biopolitical fantasy
			A relationality without excess
		Acting ≠ political acting: Re-centring the political in the Anthropocene
		Notes
		References
	3 Value, nature, and the vortex of accumulation
		Introduction
		The co-production of value
		The drive for surplus value
		Rising productivity and the growth of throughput
		Cheap inputs and the commodity frontier
		Geographies at the frontiers of accumulation
		The accumulation vortex and the ends of the Earth
		Notes
		References
	4 “Hic Rhodus, hic salta!”: Postcolonial remains and the politics of the Anthropo-ob(S)cene
		From Sonora to disruption
		Eclipsing politics
		The politics of the Anthropo-ob(S)cene: Three interruptions
			First interruption: The politics of time—against the futurism of the Anthropocene
			Second interruption: The politics of translation—against the universalism of the Anthropocene
			Third interruption: The politics of the performative—against the Anthropocene
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
Part II The situated
	5 Political ecologies of dispossession and anticorruption: A radical politics for the Anthropocene?
		Introduction
		Theories of corruption
		Informality and the flexible governance of urban natures
		Wetland grabs and contestations in Bangalore and Mumbai
			Bangalore’s Mantri Techzone
			Mumbai’s Bandra-Kurla Complex
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	6 Uneven racial development and the abolition ecology of the city
		Introduction
		Uneven racial development and the metabolization of urbanizing nature
		Toward an abolition ecology
		Conclusions
		References
	7 Suffocating cities: Climate change as social-ecological violence
		Introduction
		The urban political ecologies of the climate crisis
		The violence of direct impacts: Saint-Louis drowning
		The violence of secondary impacts: Accra’s disrupted energy system
		The violence of response: Restructuring Mbale
		Suffocating cities
		References
	8 Multi-vocal urban political ecology: In search of new sensibilities
		Emergent urban realities
		Africa’s urban grassroots
		Rogue sensibility, radical incrementalism, and multi-vocality
		Through waste dumps and hip hop
		Conclusion
		References
	9 Paved paradise: The suburb as chief artefact of the Anthropocene and terrain of new political performativities
		Introduction
		Suburbanization and the Anthropocene
		Pressure points of sub/urban political ecology
		Decentralizing the centre
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	10 Of ghosts, waste, and the Anthropocene
		Prelude
		Ghosts’ stories: Setting the scene
		Ghosts’ stories: Meeting your ghosts
		Other ghosts present
		A success story?
		Of science, or engagement without stakes
		Alchemic Anthropocene
		Notes
		References
Part III The performative
	11 Exhibiting division, seizing the state: The Natural History Museum
		The anamorphic politics of climate change
		Institutionality, at a minimum
		Being the museum
		The art of political engagement
			Collectivity
			Division
			Infrastructure
			Truth
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	12 All that was directly lived
		Introduction
		Money as the only representation of value
		Professional representation as the only paradigm of truth
		Representative government as the only representation of democracy
		The dialectics of representation and participation
		Reasons to be cheerful
		Notes
		References
	13 Reclaiming a scholarship of presence: Building alternative socio-environmental imaginaries
		Nature and imaginary
		The weight of the imaginary
		Overinvesting in “the Anthropocene”
		De-colonize the imaginary at times of crisis
		Reclaiming a scholarship of presence
		The significance of ruins
		References
Conclusion
	14 Bringing back the political: Egalitarian acting, performative theory
		Introduction
		Performative
		Political
		Interruption
		Possibilities
		Conclusion—in the here and now
		Epilogue
		Notes
		References
Index