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All posts tagged UPE—Urban Political Ecology

Mineral Extraction in the Age of Green Transformation. Read more

How to organize anew the articulation between emancipatory theory and political activism? This is the central organising theme in this edited volume. It represents a major effort and lots of Read more

The Third Annual ACC Seminar & PhD Course on Democratic Practices focuses on “Understanding Capitalism in Unequal Geographies.” It will run from 19-23 June 2017 in Cape Town and this year’s Read more

Carlos Carmonamedina, “Ayotzinapa” 2017.

Professor Erik Swyngedouw will give an ACC Special Lecture at The Cape Institute for Architecture (CIFA) on the 8 March 2017. Please join us or follow the web-cast/recording (link coming later). Read more

Bruce Baigrie and Henrik Ernstson have just published a critique of “eco-estates” in GroundUp (online magazine) based on an initial study in Nordhoek, Cape Town.   In this piece we do Read more