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In the Nature of Cities: Urban Political Ecology and the Politics of Urban Metabolism
- N. Heynen, M. Kaika, E. Swyngedouw, G. Bridge, S. Watson
- Sociology
- 22 January 2006
Forward David Harvey Part 1 The Production of Urban Natures and Urban Political Ecology 1. Introduction Erik Swyngedouw, Nik Heynen and Maria Kaika 2. Sylvan City: The social production of urban… Expand
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The Water Framework Directive: A New Directive for a Changing Social, Political and Economic European Framework
- M. Kaika
- Political Science
- 1 April 2003
This article examines the intricate process of developing the European Union's Water Framework Directive. It sees the Directive as a response to recent economic, political and social changes related… Expand
Urban political ecology: politicizing the production of urban natures
- E. Swyngedouw, N. Heynen, M. Kaika
- Political Science
- 23 March 2006
Interrogating the geographies of the familiar: domesticating nature and constructing the autonomy of the modern home
- M. Kaika
- Sociology
- 1 June 2004
This article studies the western bourgeois home, and argues that its social construction as a familiar, autonomous, safe, private haven is predicated not only upon the exclusion of undesired social… Expand
Dams as Symbols of Modernization: The Urbanization of Nature Between Geographical Imagination and Materiality
- M. Kaika
- Sociology
- 1 June 2006
The article offers an analysis of the iconography and symbolism of dam constructions at three levels: first, as embodiments of the dialectics between geographical imaginations and material practices… Expand
The EU Water Framework Directive: part 1. European policy‐making and the changing topography of lobbying
This paper is a history of the making of the European Union's Water Framework Directive (WFD). It will be followed by a second paper, which analyses the relationship between the innovations of the… Expand
Constructing Scarcity and Sensationalising Water Politics: 170 Days That Shook Athens
- M. Kaika
- Economics
- 1 November 2003
This paper examines the drought that hit Athens between 1989 and 1991 and analyses the role of this natural phenomenon as the “ferment” for ongoing political-economic transformations in the direction… Expand
Urban water: a political-ecology perspective
- E. Swyngedouw, M. Kaika, E. Castro
- Political Science
- 2002
This paper explores a political-ecological perspective on the relationship between urbanization, sustainability, and the production and distribution of urban water. The focus is on the… Expand
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‘Mortgaged lives’: the biopolitics of debt and housing financialisation1
- Melissa García-Lamarca, M. Kaika
- Economics, Medicine
- Transactions
- 1 June 2016
The paper expands the conceptual framework within which we examine mortgage debt by reconceptualising mortgages as a biotechnology: a technology of power over life that forges an intimate… Expand
‘Don’t call me resilient again!’: the New Urban Agenda as immunology … or … what happens when communities refuse to be vaccinated with ‘smart cities’ and indicators
- M. Kaika
- Sociology
- 17 March 2017
The Habitat III Conference’s New Urban Agenda hails a “paradigm shift” for pursuing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). However, the new call for “safe, resilient, sustainable and inclusive… Expand