Urban political ecology as an expanded field

In what sense might urban political ecology be regarded as an expanded field? In this brief article, I emphasize how urban political ecology has the capacity to build conceptual bridges between the bio-physical sciences, the social sciences, and the humanities. I suggest that urban political ecology is uniquely positioned to bring together material insights at different spatial scales, linking intricate local topographies with more distant extractive frontiers and zoonotic transfer zones. If urban political ecology wishes to engage with pluriversal ecologies, however, it will need to adopt a more eclectic and less deterministic conceptual framework. A more embodied vantage point can also develop links between neo-Marxian approaches and newly emerging fields such as critical phenomenology, critical toxicology, and multispecies ethnographies.