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It's no longer about nature in the city but the urbanization of nature
itself, write Erik Swyngedouw and Maria Kaika. Welcome to the cyborg
city, in which human and non-human inhabitants are globally linked
through the circulation of water, energy, fat, chemicals and viruses,
among others.
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However, this body of thought has paid relatively little attention to the
political opportunities such a perspective could bring, or to imagining
radically different future urban socio-ecological assemblages. Thus,
although we may now be able to trace, chart, follow, and narrate the
multiple socio-ecological lines that shape the urban process both
locally and globally, preciously little has been said about how to
produce alternative, more equitable and enabling, urban socio-
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Third, the obsession with a singular Nature that requires sustaining or,
at least, techno-administrative managing, is sustained by a particular
quilting of Nature that forecloses asking political questions about
immediately and really possible alternative urban socio-ecological
arrangements.
In part due to the growing global awareness of the environmental
crisis, contemporary representations of Nature have become more
decidedly apocalyptic. The Real of Nature, in the form of a wide variety
of ecological threats (global warming, new diseases, biodiversity loss,
resource depletion and scarcity, pollution and excess), has invaded
and unsettled our received understandings of Nature (Zizek 2008b;
Swyngedouw 2013a).
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Original in English
First published in dérive
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