Kathleen Stokes reflects on waste management and political ecology in Cape Town. Kathleen is a PhD student in Human Geography at the University of Manchester with a research focuses on community Read more
SITUATED ECOLOGIES gathers art, design and research collaborations to contest and democratise ecologies.
All posts tagged SUPE—Situated Urban Political Ecologies
Call for Papers AAG2017. American Association of Geographers (AAG), Boston, April 5-9, 2017 Emancipatory Horizons of an Urban Century Session conveners: Henrik Ernstson (KTH and University of Cape Town) and Erik Read more
The Urban Action Lab (UAL) at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda has launched their website. The UAL is run by Professor Shuaib Lwasa and his team of urban researchers and Read more
How are values of contested urban green spaces articulated across cultural contexts such as Cape Town, New York and London? What is the relation between civics and urban designers in value articulation? A Read more
Report back: The Aesthetical and the Political of Unequal Geographies By Wangui Kimari Seventeen of us gathered for the second offering of the ACC PhD seminar on Democratic Practices at Read more
Martín Ávila from Konstfack in Stockholm is visiting the leading Semiotics Department at the University of Tartu in Estonia on the 2nd of September 2016. Supported by funds from Henrik Ernstson’s Read more
A new publication from our Situated UPE Collective was just published in Regional Studies by Mary Lawhon, Jonathan Silver, Henrik Ernstson and Joseph Pierce. It continues our contribution to Urban Political Read more
Joel Ongwech and Jonathan Silver have created a video demonstrating heterogenous energy infrastructure in Kampala. Check it out! Kampala is experiencing rapid urbanisation and resulting transformation with over two million people Read more
See below some of the great papers tagged by Antipode to our Situated UPE paper from 2014. Here is a great collection for those interested in re-making the study of urban political Read more
Political Ecology of Urbanization in Latin America: A fertile ground for more situated and just urban ecologies
German Quimbayo Ruiz reports on efforts to develop a Situated UPE approach in Latin America. His co-authored research article in the journal Ecología Política is in Spanish, so spread the message among our Read more