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Breaking Consensus, Transforming Metabolisms: Notes on Direct Action against Fossil Fuels through Urban Political Ecology

Salvatore Paolo De Rosa
Social Text (2022) 40 (1 (150)): 135–155.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-9495160
Published: 01 March 2022
...Salvatore Paolo De Rosa Abstract This article discusses the politics of direct action against fossil fuels put forward by climate justice movements, focusing in particular on the tactic of the blockade. Drawing on the conceptual toolkit of urban political ecology, the argument moves from a critique...
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Urban Climate Insurgency: An Introduction

Ashley Dawson, Marco Armiero, Ethemcan Turhan, Roberta Biasillo
Social Text (2022) 40 (1 (150)): 1–20.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-9495075
Published: 01 March 2022
..., to what extent do the peculiar characteristics of contemporary extreme cities help generate struggles both for survival in slum ecologies and for more just and sustainable cities to come? Finally, we do not intend to assume that an urban politics for climate emergency is always a radical, egalitarian...
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From the Occupied Parks to the Gardens of the Nation: Politics and Aesthetics of Urban Greenery in Post-Gezi Istanbul

Sinan Erensü, Barış İne, Yaşar Adnan Adanalı
Social Text (2022) 40 (1 (150)): 109–134.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-9495146
Published: 01 March 2022
...@mekandaadalet.org Copyright © 2022 by Duke University Press 2022 urban greening environmental justice political aesthetics urban political ecology authoritarianism public parks land use On February 5 – 6, 2020, Istanbul Congress Hall hosted a first of its kind workshop on the future...
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Architekture and Teklife in the Hyperghetto: The Sonic Ecology of Footwork

Dhanveer Singh Brar
Social Text (2016) 34 (1 (126)): 21–48.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-3427117
Published: 01 March 2016
... Press . Tim & Barry . 2014 . I'm Tryna Tell Ya . Don't Watch That TV . www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AlJ88YZ3U8 . Wacquant Loïc . 1994 . “The New Urban Color Line: The State and Fate of the Ghetto in Postfordist America.” In Social Theory and the Politics of Identity , edited...
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Energy States: Unequal Burdens, Climate Transitions, and Postextractive Futures

Ashley Dawson, Macarena Gómez-Barris
Social Text (2022) 40 (1 (150)): 39–67.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-9495103
Published: 01 March 2022
... peoples and ecological allies. Despite the Ecuadoran constitution's legal protections of land defenders, surveillance has expanded as discussed in the introduction. 28. Sacher, interview . 27. YASunidos International, “YASunidos Manifesto.” 26. Coryat, “Extractive Politics...
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Rooting Out Injustices from the Top: The Multispecies Alliance in Morro da Babilônia, Rio de Janeiro

Lise Sedrez, Roberta Biasillo
Social Text (2022) 40 (1 (150)): 91–108.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-9495132
Published: 01 March 2022
... .” December 29 , 1915 , 3 . Ernstson Henrik , and Sörlin Sverker , “ Toward Comparative Urban Environmentalism: Situating Urban Natures in an Emerging ‘World of Cities.’ ” In Grounding Urban Natures: Histories and Futures of Urban Ecologies , edited by Ernstson Henrik and Sörlin...
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From Waste to Climate: Tackling Climate Change in a Rebel City

Marco Armiero
Social Text (2022) 40 (1 (150)): 69–89.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-9495117
Published: 01 March 2022
... of epistemic communities and the rejection of single-issue politics. According to urban theorist Edgar Pieterse, the production of knowledge, and thereby of new imaginaries, occurs through “epistemic communities” where collective knowledge “can be assembled or networked” with the aim to “challenge conventional...
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Introduction: GLOBAL CITIES OF THE SOUTH

Ashley Dawson, Brent Hayes Edwards
Social Text (2004) 22 (4 (81)): 1–7.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-22-4_81-1
Published: 01 December 2004
... gravest ecological, political, and social issues will gestate and mature in the urban spaces of the developing world. This is not to imply that global cities scholarship has been content to focus only on Sassen’s original examples. Indeed, much recent scholar- ship has been devoted...
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Majority Urban Politics and Lives Worth Living in a Time of Climate Emergencies

AbdouMaliq Simone, Solomon Benjamin
Social Text (2022) 40 (1 (150)): 21–38.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-9495089
Published: 01 March 2022
... . “ Ecological Security for Whom? The Politics of Flood Alleviation and Urban Environmental Justice in Jakarta, Indonesia .” In The Routledge Companion to the Environmental Humanities , edited by K. Heise Ursula , Christensen Jon , and Niemann Michelle , 194 – 205 . London : Routledge...
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Nuclearism: THE CONTOURS OF A POLITICAL ECOLOGY

Piyush Mathur
Social Text (2001) 19 (1 (66)): 1–18.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-19-1_66-1
Published: 01 March 2001
...Piyush Mathur Duke University Press 2001 ST 66.01 Mathur 4/9/01 11:46 AM Page 1 Nuclearism THE CONTOURS OF A POLITICAL ECOLOGY How...
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Biohazard: The Catastrophic Temporality of Green Capitalism

Ashley Dawson
Social Text (2013) 31 (1 (114)): 63–81.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-1958899
Published: 01 March 2013
...Ashley Dawson Contemporary modes of biopolitical manipulation and commodification entail a radically new political economy of nature, a wholesale shift from the laws of biological evolution and development that have subtended much of the temporal imagination of modernity. In place of the notions...
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Atmospheric Sensibilities: Noise, Annoyance, and Indefinite Urbanism

Marina Peterson
Social Text (2017) 35 (2 (131)): 69–90.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-3820545
Published: 01 June 2017
... . Reverberations: The Philosophy, Aesthetics, and Politics of Noise . New York : Bloomsbury . Goodman Steve . 2010 . Sonic Warfare: Sound, Affect, and the Ecology of Fear . Cambridge, MA : MIT Press . Graham Stephen Hewitt Lucy 2013 . “ Getting off the Ground: On the Politics of Urban...
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The World Is Already without Us

Alberto Toscano
Social Text (2016) 34 (2 (127)): 109–124.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-3468002
Published: 01 June 2016
... the Anthropocene in our conjuncture of interminable crisis—political, economic, ecological—it is hard not to see it as an implicit theory of species alienation, if by the latter term we grasp a kind of speculative identity between mastery and impotence, agency and subjection. However, the narrative...
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Ruinous Speculation, Tunnel Environments, and the Sustainable Infrastructures of the Border

Juan Llamas-Rodriguez
Social Text (2022) 40 (4 (153)): 97–123.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-10013332
Published: 01 December 2022
... hand and “preserving border ecologies” on the other—a struggle between two distinct conceptions of life. In the nineteenth century, urban planning relied on an “organic” understanding of the sewer lines, pipes, and tunnels. Pipes were supposed to be neutral and anonymous, supplying the private...
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Introduction: Dehumanist Education and the Colonial University

Nathan Snaza, Julietta Singh
Social Text (2021) 39 (1 (146)): 1–19.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-8750064
Published: 01 March 2021
... over the last few hundred years is part of the colonial project and inseparable from colonial ecologies. Some of the articles in “Educational Undergrowth” invite us to move beyond thinking education in anthropocentric terms, instead analyzing how the intrahuman politics of education...
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Waiting for the Bus

Sikivu Hutchinson
Social Text (2000) 18 (2 (63)): 107–120.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-18-2_63-107
Published: 01 June 2000
..., not only visvis the trajectory of Los Angeles transportation politics but also because of its implications for post–civil rights era organizing, which has sought to address how institu- tional racism and sexism inscribe urban public space. The union’s insis...
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Telecommuting Pedagogies: White Plasticity and the Ecological Imaginaries of Working from Home

Renyi Hong
Social Text (2022) 40 (2 (151)): 21–48.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-9631117
Published: 01 June 2022
... consideration of adaptation relates to Kyla Schuller's important critique of the racialization of ecological plasticity. “While the distribution of this capacity of plasticity need not be restricted to groups socially or politically recognized as white,” Schuller and Jules Gill-Peterson write, “it is routinely...
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Water as Protagonist

After Globalism Writing Group
Social Text (2018) 36 (1 (134)): 15–23.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-4298505
Published: 01 March 2018
.... 2018 . Aguamiel: Secrets of Agave . Prerelease shown to author by directors, transcribed by Gómez-Barris Macarena . Maldonado-Torres Nelson . 2008 . Against War . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . McCully Patrick . 1996 . Silenced Rivers: The Ecology and Politics...
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Beyond the “NGO Aesthetic”

Jennifer Bajorek
Social Text (2016) 34 (2 (127)): 89–107.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-3467990
Published: 01 June 2016
... perspective. 27 Like Hopkins’s Logos , Urban Mirror’s project prompts a reflection on literal maps and techniques of visualization, but it also raises interesting questions about an emergent distinction between a tactics and an aesthetics within a given image culture or ecology, and, as befits...
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The Urbanization of Empire: MEGACITIES AND THE LAWS OF CHAOS

Mike Davis
Social Text (2004) 22 (4 (81)): 9–15.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-22-4_81-9
Published: 01 December 2004
... of the urban poor were also integrated, as servants, soldiers, prostitutes, and petty traders, into the parasitic ecology of the colonial metropolis. In Dublin in 1916, the slum poor jeered the survivors of the Easter Rebellion as they were led away to British prisons. The sustainable zones...
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