关键词: （城市）政治生态学, 社会-生态混合体, 自然的城市化, 政治经济, 权力关系

Abstract:

Political ecology has been firmly established as a core filed for human geographers to interrogate the dynamic and dialectic relationships between human and environment. As an offshoot of political ecology, urban political ecology has witnessed a raid progress in recent two decades as well. Unfortunately, a promising research filed as important as such has not yet drawn its due attention from Chinese human geographers. This paper offers a systematic review of the theoretical lineage, analytical approaches, theoretical concerns, and research progress of urban political ecology in the Anglophone literature. The approach of urban political ecology has abstained from the socio-natural dichotomy that has dominated the environmental theory and practice during the 20^th century. Rooted in neo-Marxist urban geography, it has rejected the the divisions of society/nature and urban/nature and re-conceptualized cities as socio-natural hybrids. It is critical of both cities as a missing element in conventional political ecology studies and the ignorance of environment in urban studies. It foregrounds the political nature of the processes that produce particular socio-ecological changes and the importance of untangling the political economic, socio-cultural, and power relationships that are constantly shaping and shaped by the socio-ecological transformations. Urban political ecology in the past five years is expanding to include post-structural, postcolonial theories; is increasingly attentive to socio-ecological changes in the Global South; is seeing emerging debates centering around issues of planetary urbanization, methodological cityism, site multiple approach.

Key words: (urban) political ecology, socio-nature hybrids, socio-ecological changes, urbanization of nature, political-economic process