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SUMMARY:Discussion: ‘In the Nature of the Non-City: Expanded Infrastruct
 ural Networks and the Political Ecology of Planetary Urbanisation’ by Ma
 rtín Arboleda - Prof. Bill Adams
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CONTACT:Ritika Kapur
DESCRIPTION:This paper proposes extending Urban Political Ecology's (UPE) 
 ideas about the urbanisation of nature in order to include the geographica
 l imprints of expanding\, global metabolic flows of matter\, energy and ca
 pital. It does so through the analysis of Huasco\, a small agricultural vi
 llage in northern Chile that has been overburdened with massive energy und
 ertakings aimed at powering the operations of mines that supply raw materi
 als to international markets. Like the sewage and technological networks t
 hat feed the life of cities\, the paper argues that Huasco—as a metaboli
 c vehicle of planetary urbanisation—has also been hidden from view\, and
  thus the fetishisation of urban infrastructural networks initially theori
 sed by UPE\, has been ratcheted-up to the global level by the mediating po
 wers of neoliberalising capitalism. Just as the socio-material arrangement
 s that facilitate the smooth functioning of the modern city and household 
 are riddled with glitches and exclusions\, the paper suggests that globall
 y up-scaled infrastructures reveal even larger contradictions that put int
 o jeopardy the very premises upon which the ongoing commodification of nat
 ure is grounded.
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