Insurgent earth: Territorialist political ecology in/for the new climate regime

Over the past two decades, the debate about the planet’s future has revolved around the climate crisis and colonised the political discourse on the link between urban and ecological questions. Moreover, it produced metanarratives of the global urban condition and a varied debate on urban sustainability that oscillated between divergent positions on the role of cities, are seen both as places where environmental crises are severely experienced and as socio-technical systems capable of elaborating innovative responses to such crises. This chapter contributes to this discourse by interpreting the intertwining between two components of the climate crisis – the political-ecological and the social – from an urban political ecology (UPE) perspective addressed in the 1990s and recently reframed within the discourse of extended urbanisation, postcolonial, feminist, and Global South scholarship, comparative and southern urbanism, and the understand- ing of human and more-than-human actors in the production of space.