Henrik Ernstson is Lecturer in Human Geography at The University of Manchester, UK.

Erik Swyngedouw is Professor of Geography at The University of Manchester, UK.

Urban Political Ecology in the Anthropo-obscene: Interruptions and Possibilities centres on how to organize anew the articulation between emancipatory theory and political activism.

Introduction 1. Politicizing the Environment in the Urban Century Henrik Ernstson and Erik Swyngedouw Section I: The Political 2. O Tempora! O Mores! Interrupting the Anthropo-obScene Erik Swyngedouw and Henrik Ernstson 3. Value, Nature and The Vortex of Accumulation Richard Walker and Jason W. Moore 4."Hic Rhodus, Hic Salta!" Postcolonial Remains and the Politics of the Anthropo-ob(S)cene Andrés Fabián Henao Castro and Henrik Ernstson Section II: The Situated 5. Political Ecologies of Dispossession and Anticorruption: A Radical Politics for the Anthropocene? Malini Ranganathan and Sapana Doshi 6. Uneven Racial Development and the Abolition Ecology of the City Nik Heynen 7. Suffocating Cities: Climate Change as Social-ecological Violence Jonathan Silver 8. Multi-vocal Urban Political Ecology: In Search of New Sensibilities Garth Myers 9. Paved Paradise: The Suburb as Chief Artefact of the Anthropocene and Terrain of New Political Performativities Roger Keil 10. Of Ghosts, Waste and the Anthropocene Marco Armiero Section III: The Performative 11. Exhibiting Division, Seizing the State: The Natural History Museum Jodi Dean 12. All that Was Directly Lived Andy Merrifield 13. Reclaiming a Scholarship of Presence: Building Alternative Socio-environmental Imaginaries Maria Kaika Conclusion 14. Bringing Back the Political: Egalitarian Acting, Performative Theory Henrik Ernstson and Erik Swyngedouw