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Urban political ecology in prospect and retrospect

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jats:pThe contemporary theorization of the urban biosphere has reached something of an impasse between the perceived limitations of urban political ecology, the neo-Lefebvrian emphasis on global patterns of urbanization, and the rise of “new materialisms”.  Since its emergence in the mid-1990s, urban political ecology has made a series of distinctive contributions to the study of urban environmental issues yet in recent years a series of conceptual tensions and empirical lacunae have become apparent.  In this essay I reflect on the legacy of the “first wave” of urban political ecology scholarship and consider a series of contemporary challenges including more complex interpretations of agency, materiality, and subjectivity.       </jats:p>

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sub\urban. zeitschrift für kritische stadtforschung

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2197-2567
2197-2567

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9

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sub\urban e.V.
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European Research Council (340077)