Urban political ecology (UPE) focuses on unsettling traditional understandings of 'cities' as
ontological entities separate from 'nature'and on how the production of settlements is …

Research on socio-economically disadvantaged neighbourhoods with high numbers of
migrants tends to problematise such areas as hindering upward social mobility and further …

Today, suburbs and urban fringes are pivotal places for understanding contemporary urban
transformations because the majority of the world's urban population live in suburbs …

The increasing suburbanization of immigrant settlement in Canada's major receiving cities
has created unprecedented challenges for municipalities. Despite emerging research about …

In this paper we develop a relational understanding of populism informed by urban political
ecology. We argue that an urban political ecology of populism is necessary for a popular …

The increased presence of migrant entrepreneurs in Downtown, Harare has been met with
ambivalence and suspicion. As Zimbabwean nationals forge a 'new nationalism', they …

Drawing upon the debates on 'suburbanisms' and 'arrival space', this article explores the
complexities for welfare governance in multiethnic peripheries. The paper bridges two …

Cosmopolitanism, which is often defined as openness to other cultures and individuals, is
significant for understanding processes of stratification in contemporary, globalised societies …

2 Introduction periphery, city/nature boundaries that had been constitutive of urban studies.
This shift, that occurs under the threat of climate change, is what generated the need to put …

Over the last 20 years, suburbanization has gradually turned into a key topic of analysis,
whereas welfare policies have faced a significant public reconfiguration towards the local …