The threads that connect us: Epidemiological logistics ecologies of extended urbanization

A crusader for the margins, Roger Keil went as far as calling planet Earth ‘suburban’ in his book Suburban planet: Making the world urban from the outside in. This iconoclastic and heretical take on the ‘urban’ is not just an attempt to be intellectually provocative; it is a call to look at the world from a different angle, from the ‘outside in’, starting from those places that have been dismissed as secondary, peripheral, and parochial. It is also a call to see suburban and extended urbanization as an ongoing planetary process that we cannot ignore. In this article, we examine how the ideas developed through the frameworks of extended urbanization and urban political ecology help develop new insights for understanding global health (antimicrobial resistance) and critical logistics (the port–city interface).