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Provincialising Urban Political Ecology: Towards a situated UPE through…
Provincialising Urban Political Ecology: Towards a situated UPE through African Urbanism (Lawhon and Ernstson 2013)
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Introduction
Work in the global south remains dominated by managerial, technocratic and apolitical approaches
Urban political ecology raises questions of inequality, justice and poverty. Encouraging the production of more just environments
However, UPE is limited by its narrow political scope
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Urban Political Ecology
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Concerned with the processes of the urbanisation of nature, the social, cultural and political relations, drawing a Marx interest in nature and noting how technology and human labour is part of producing nature
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Looking into the socio-ecological processes that produce the urban and spaces of privilege and exclusion
UPE thus investigates how social relation s of class,gender, and race inform the process of urbanization and come to codify unjust ur-ban geographies—producing healthy environments for some, while others liveclose to hazards and with less access to resources
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Conclusion
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Focus on African urbanism as one possible means for expansion, possibility for continued future engagements with diverse theoretical perspectives
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