Erik Swyngedouw

Erik Swyngedouw is professor of geography at Manchester University and holds the Vincent Wright Visiting Professorship at Sciences Po Paris, 2014. His research interests include political-ecology, urban governance, democracy and political power, and the politics of globalization. Author of many books and essays, his new book with the MIT Press that focuses on water and social power in 20th century Spain will be published in April 2015. His most recent book is a co-edited volume (with Japhy Wilson) on The Post-Political and its Discontents : Spaces of Depoliticisation, Spectres of Radical Politics (Edinburgh University Press, 2014).