Potential Readings

Here's an initial list of potential readings generated from various people/sources. The references are not complete, but I hope I've provided enough info for easy searching. Please add additional readings to this list.

Concrete and Clay – Matthew Gandy

Selections from In the nature of cities: urban political ecology and the politics of urban metabolism – Heynen, Kaika and Swyngedouw, eds.

Antipode Special Issue – Urban Political Ecology, Justice and the Politics of Scale – Vol 35(5)

-"Urban Political Ecology, Justice and the Politics of Scale” – Swyngedouw and Heynen

- “Constructing Scarcity and Sensationalising Water Politics: 170 Days That Shook Athens.” – Kaika

- "The Lawn-Chemical Economy and its Discontents” – Robbins

- "The Scalar Production of Injustice within the Urban Forest” - Heynen

“The Political Ecology of Flood Hazard in Urban Guyana”, Geoforum 30(3): 1999 – Mark Pelling

Imperial San Francisco - Brechin

Planet of Slums – Mike Davis

City of Quartz – Mike Davis

American Anthropologist Special Issue - Hurricane Katrina - December 2006

Vulnerability and Place: Flat Land and Uneven Risk in New Orleans – Colten

Lots of other good articles here, too

Environment and Planning A– 38(3) - “Green urban political ecologies: toward a better understanding of inner-city environmental change” - Heynen

Environment and Planning A, 38(11): “Remaking urban environments: the political ecology of air pollution in Delhi” – Veron

Barcelona/Water case study (read in IGERT reading group)

Background/Theoretical:

“Political Ecology: Where’s the ecology?” – Peter Walker – Progress in Human Geography, 29(1)

“Political Ecology: Where’s the policy?” – Peter Walker – Progress in Human Geography, 30(3)

Intro to Paul Robbins Political Ecology Book

More Swyngedouw?

Against Political Ecology – Vayda and Walters, Human Ecology, 27(1), 1999

Political Ecology – Greenburg and Park – Journal of Political Ecology, Vol 1, 1994

Something by Massey

Foucault, “Questions of Geography” in Power/Knowledge - 1980