"The question is not any longer about bringing
environmental issues into the domain of politics as has been the case until now but rather about how to bring the political into the environment."
Erik Swyngedouw is professor of geography at the University of Manchester in the School of Environment, Education and Development and a member of the Manchester Urban Institute.
Swyngedouw has long been a leading figure in critical geography. He has written extensively on political economy, urban governance, and the transformation of water infrastructures, with fieldwork spanning Europe and Latin America. He is known for challenging consensus views on technocratic urban planning and for emphasizing how struggles over resources like water reveal deeper democratic deficits in contemporary governance.
