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...

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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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...

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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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...

Very excited for UPE's second 2026 paper, by Neil Brenner and Swarnabh Ghosh: 'Environments of urbanization'
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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...

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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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...

'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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'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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'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 - 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...

'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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The first issue is out!
Urban Political Ecology has its inaugural issue, featuring the Special Issue: 'Imagining with UPE for a Burning World.'
Huge thanks to all the contributors.
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New article on UPE: 'Mapping everyday urban political ecologies: Experiential cartography as embodied methodology' by P. Rekacewicz, T. Mandler, D. Cordero, P.A.A. Echague, A. Hardon, B. Pauchano, S. Pelagio, M.R. Sandoval, M.L. Tan.
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New article published on UPE: 'Prefiguring communist urban political ecologies' by Erik Swyngedouw.
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New article published on UPE: "Negotiating green urbanism: Colonial legacies, governance contradictions, and resistance in Nairobi's informal settlements" by Valentine Opanga.
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Book review: Periurban Cartographies: Kolkata’s Ecologies and Settled Ruralities by Victoria Jane Marshall - Xiang (Yenny) Li, 2025

New article published on UPE: "Book review: Periurban Cartographies: Kolkata’s Ecologies and Settled Ruralities by Victoria Jane Marshall", by Xiang (Yenny) Li.
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New article on UPE, "The nature of AI: Metabolism, energy, water, labour and justice in the urban political ecology of artificial intelligence", by Cugurullo, F., Caprotti, F., Day, J., Geoghegan, S., Lynch, C. R., Menga, F., Robinson, C., & Williams, J.
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New article published on Urban Political Ecology, "Urban political ecology between the planetary and the situated: Extending the debate through critical logistics" by Miriam Matthiessen: doi.org/10.1177/3049...

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Filth and the City, by Jamie Lorimer, Simon Goldhill, Roger Keil and Julie-Anne Boudreau.

Looking forward to our AAG session 'Urban Political Ecology - Sage journal launch' on Tuesday, 25/3/2025.
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We're thrilled to announce the launch of Urban Political Ecology, an interdisciplinary journal that publishes state-of-the-art scholarship primarily rooted in the field of urban political ecology: journals.sagepub.com/home/upe
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