Hillary Angelo
Biographic Data
| ID | 277394 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hillary Angelo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hillary |
| FAMILY NAME | Angelo |
| SIGNATURE | ANGELO H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Santa Cruz |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3921-9002 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 425 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Pushed to the Brink
How does the climate crisis bump up against the limits of our knowledge? This mixed-media triptych is an experimental collaboration between a philosopher and a sociologist. Part 1, a three-panel visual extinction collage, exposes the discontinuities of geological time across three Anthropocene landscapes composed of Holocene fragments. Part 2, a collaborative erasure poem, cuts into well-known “man in the wilderness” writings through a queer femi…
Singularity, specificity, urgency: “Crisis” in urban climate research
This commentary reflects on the appearance of “crisis” in urban climate research. I find that it most often appears as a description of a new and singular context, as a historically specific event, and as an urgent injunction to act. I evaluate the pros and cons of such crisis framings, concluding that they tend to produce analytics oriented toward present uniqueness rather than durable patterns, on complexity rather than foundational causes, and…
Climate change and urban-agrarian solidarities
As climate change has heightened the significance of urban-agrarian material entanglements and intellectual and political oppositions, the need to speak across them has become more urgent. Scholarship in agrarian and urban studies is concerned with specific social processes and political demands in agrarian and urban contexts, respectively. These processes and demands are often articulated in opposition to one another, despite the fact that the p…
Emancipatory Politics in a Time of Climate Crisis
Building more epistemically inclusive and environmentally equitable universities
Higher educational institutions tend to draw from mainstream approaches to environmentalism that reinforce race, class, and gender hierarchies around who constitutes “an environmentalist” and what activities constitute “environmentalism.” As a result, students of color and students from other marginalized backgrounds who often experience environmental degradation and catastrophe firsthand do not often see their experiences reflected in universiti…
The Moral Work of Participation: Disillusio, Expertise, and Urban Planning Under Neoliberalism
A Sociology of Real Estate: Polanyi, Du Bois, and the Relational Study of Commodified Land in a Climate-Changed Future
Real estate plays an essential part in various sociological theories of political economy, state capacity, racecraft, stratification, and urbanization. However, since foundational insights about the novelty of commodified, emplaced private property from theorists like Du Bois and Polanyi, these disparate threads have not been tied together into a coherent field of study. Here, we review three areas of recent scholarship relevant to understanding …
Environmentalizing Urban Sociology
Missing the Housing for the Trees: Equity in Urban Climate Planning
This paper examines equity’s incorporation into Climate Action Plans (CAPs), an increasingly important part of the urban sustainability planning landscape. We conduct a content analysis of 170 California CAPs and compare the plans’ treatment of equity to city characteristics such as size and income inequality. We find that equity language correlates with an increased presence of more systemic policy interventions, such as dense and/or affordable …
Repairing Infrastructures: The Maintenance of Materiality and Power
Out in Space: Difference and Abstraction in Planetary Urbanization
A common thread has emerged in recent critiques of planetary urbanization. Whether on empirical, epistemological or theoretical grounds, critics tend to posit 'difference against abstraction', arguing that planetary urbanization-as an abstract theory of large-scale phenomena-occludes 'everyday' embodied, small-scale and place-based forms of social difference in its production and/or application. Here we engage with this critique as two queer, fem…
How Green Became Good: Urbanized Nature and the Making of Cities and Citizens
Why does everyone think cities can save the planet
This article identifies and explains an underlying transition in global urban policy and discourse from the city as a sustainability problem to the city as a sustainability solution. We argue that contemporary policy discourses of cities saving the planet should be understood in the context of three major historical developments which have their roots in the 1970s and which intensified throughout the 1990s. The first is sprawl: the urban sustaina…
Between Fixity and Motion: Emplacing Tech in New York City - Sharon Zukin, The Innovation Complex: Cities, Tech, and the New Economy (Oxford, OUP, 2020, 296 p)
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Added value? Denaturalizing the "good" of urban greening
In recent years, "urban greening" has become a new keyword in urban policy and practice, used to describe a proliferation of urban quality of life and environmental sustainability initiatives including street trees, public parks, greenways, farmers' markets, green roofs, and LEED certification in design. The emerging critical literature on urban greening has highlighted important ways green's social and economic added value affects the political …
The greening imaginary: Urbanized nature in Germany's Ruhr region
Long waves of urban reform: Putting the smart city in its place
This article maps urban reform movements onto ‘long waves:’ consistently patterned technological and economic cycles that repeat over time. Using the example of the United States, we argue that periodizing urban reform movements in this way reveals surprising similarities in different historical contexts. Across cycles, two tropes repeatedly appear: discourses of efficiency, that propose technological solutions to urban problems, and those of bea…
Green and Gray: New Ideologies of Nature in Urban Sustainability Policy
In the past two decades, urban sustainability has become a new policy common sense. This article argues that contemporary urban sustainability thought and practice is coconstituted by two distinct representational forms, which we call green urban nature and gray urban nature. Green urban nature is the return of nature to the city in its most verdant form, signified by street trees, urban gardens, and the greening of postindustrial landscapes. Gra…
From the city lens toward urbanisation as a way of seeing: Country/city binaries on an urbanising planet
In recent years, three superficially distinct urban subfields have made parallel efforts to incorporate the city’s traditional ‘outsides’ into urban research. Urban political ecology, American urban sociology and postcolonial urban studies have made, respectively, ‘nature’, the ‘rural’ and the ‘not-yet’ city the objects of self-consciously urban analyses. I argue that these interventions are analogous efforts to hybridise city/nature, city/countr…
Expand the frontiers of urban sustainability
Interactions with infrastructure as windows into social worlds: A method for critical urban studies: Introduction
This collection of papers offers a critical look at the social work that infrastructure does. We argue that small-scale interactions with infrastructure are, literally, foundations of larger scale
Implosions /Explosions: Towards a Study of Planetary Urbanization
In 1970, Henri Lefebvre put forward the radical hypothesis of the complete urbanization of society, a circumstance that in his view required a radical shift from the analysis of urban form to the investigation of urbanization processes. Drawing together classic and contemporary texts on the “urbanization question”, this book explores various theoretical, epistemological, methodological and political implications of Lefebvre’s hypothesis. It assem…
Urbanizing Urban Political Ecology: A Critique of Methodological Cityism
Urban political ecology (UPE), an offshoot of political ecology that emerged in the late 1990s, has had two major impacts on critical urban studies: it has introduced critical political ecology to urban settings, and it has provided a framework for retheorizing the city as a product of metabolic processes of socionatural transformation. However, there was another goal in early UPE programmatic statements that has largely fallen by the wayside: to…
Bird in hand: How experience makes nature
Hard-wired experience: Sociomateriality and the urban everyday
In McFarlane and Brenner, Madden and Wachsmuth's exchange, something interesting is lost in the noise about assemblage that I aim to excavate here. McFarlane's paper makes a case for the importance
Urbanizing Urban Political Ecology: A Critique of Methodological Cityism
Urban political ecology (UPE), an offshoot of political ecology that emerged in the late 1990s, has had two major impacts on critical urban studies: it has introduced critical political ecology to urban settings, and it has provided a framework for retheorizing the city as a product of metabolic processes of socionatural transformation. However, there was another goal in early UPE programmatic statements that has largely fallen by the wayside: to…
Why does everyone think cities can save the planet
This article identifies and explains an underlying transition in global urban policy and discourse from the city as a sustainability problem to the city as a sustainability solution. We argue that contemporary policy discourses of cities saving the planet should be understood in the context of three major historical developments which have their roots in the 1970s and which intensified throughout the 1990s. The first is sprawl: the urban sustaina…
Green and Gray: New Ideologies of Nature in Urban Sustainability Policy
In the past two decades, urban sustainability has become a new policy common sense. This article argues that contemporary urban sustainability thought and practice is coconstituted by two distinct representational forms, which we call green urban nature and gray urban nature. Green urban nature is the return of nature to the city in its most verdant form, signified by street trees, urban gardens, and the greening of postindustrial landscapes. Gra…
From the city lens toward urbanisation as a way of seeing: Country/city binaries on an urbanising planet
In recent years, three superficially distinct urban subfields have made parallel efforts to incorporate the city’s traditional ‘outsides’ into urban research. Urban political ecology, American urban sociology and postcolonial urban studies have made, respectively, ‘nature’, the ‘rural’ and the ‘not-yet’ city the objects of self-consciously urban analyses. I argue that these interventions are analogous efforts to hybridise city/nature, city/countr…
Interactions with infrastructure as windows into social worlds: A method for critical urban studies: Introduction
This collection of papers offers a critical look at the social work that infrastructure does. We argue that small-scale interactions with infrastructure are, literally, foundations of larger scale
Out in Space: Difference and Abstraction in Planetary Urbanization
A common thread has emerged in recent critiques of planetary urbanization. Whether on empirical, epistemological or theoretical grounds, critics tend to posit 'difference against abstraction', arguing that planetary urbanization-as an abstract theory of large-scale phenomena-occludes 'everyday' embodied, small-scale and place-based forms of social difference in its production and/or application. Here we engage with this critique as two queer, fem…
Added value? Denaturalizing the "good" of urban greening
In recent years, "urban greening" has become a new keyword in urban policy and practice, used to describe a proliferation of urban quality of life and environmental sustainability initiatives including street trees, public parks, greenways, farmers' markets, green roofs, and LEED certification in design. The emerging critical literature on urban greening has highlighted important ways green's social and economic added value affects the political …
Bird in hand: How experience makes nature
A Sociology of Real Estate: Polanyi, Du Bois, and the Relational Study of Commodified Land in a Climate-Changed Future
Real estate plays an essential part in various sociological theories of political economy, state capacity, racecraft, stratification, and urbanization. However, since foundational insights about the novelty of commodified, emplaced private property from theorists like Du Bois and Polanyi, these disparate threads have not been tied together into a coherent field of study. Here, we review three areas of recent scholarship relevant to understanding …
The greening imaginary: Urbanized nature in Germany's Ruhr region
Missing the Housing for the Trees: Equity in Urban Climate Planning
This paper examines equity’s incorporation into Climate Action Plans (CAPs), an increasingly important part of the urban sustainability planning landscape. We conduct a content analysis of 170 California CAPs and compare the plans’ treatment of equity to city characteristics such as size and income inequality. We find that equity language correlates with an increased presence of more systemic policy interventions, such as dense and/or affordable …
Environmentalizing Urban Sociology
Long waves of urban reform: Putting the smart city in its place
This article maps urban reform movements onto ‘long waves:’ consistently patterned technological and economic cycles that repeat over time. Using the example of the United States, we argue that periodizing urban reform movements in this way reveals surprising similarities in different historical contexts. Across cycles, two tropes repeatedly appear: discourses of efficiency, that propose technological solutions to urban problems, and those of bea…
Climate change and urban-agrarian solidarities
As climate change has heightened the significance of urban-agrarian material entanglements and intellectual and political oppositions, the need to speak across them has become more urgent. Scholarship in agrarian and urban studies is concerned with specific social processes and political demands in agrarian and urban contexts, respectively. These processes and demands are often articulated in opposition to one another, despite the fact that the p…
Hard-wired experience: Sociomateriality and the urban everyday
In McFarlane and Brenner, Madden and Wachsmuth's exchange, something interesting is lost in the noise about assemblage that I aim to excavate here. McFarlane's paper makes a case for the importance
Hard-wired experience: Sociomateriality and the urban everyday
In McFarlane and Brenner, Madden and Wachsmuth's exchange, something interesting is lost in the noise about assemblage that I aim to excavate here. McFarlane's paper makes a case for the importance
Bird in hand: How experience makes nature
Interactions with infrastructure as windows into social worlds: A method for critical urban studies: Introduction
This collection of papers offers a critical look at the social work that infrastructure does. We argue that small-scale interactions with infrastructure are, literally, foundations of larger scale
Implosions /Explosions: Towards a Study of Planetary Urbanization
In 1970, Henri Lefebvre put forward the radical hypothesis of the complete urbanization of society, a circumstance that in his view required a radical shift from the analysis of urban form to the investigation of urbanization processes. Drawing together classic and contemporary texts on the “urbanization question”, this book explores various theoretical, epistemological, methodological and political implications of Lefebvre’s hypothesis. It assem…
Urbanizing Urban Political Ecology: A Critique of Methodological Cityism
Urban political ecology (UPE), an offshoot of political ecology that emerged in the late 1990s, has had two major impacts on critical urban studies: it has introduced critical political ecology to urban settings, and it has provided a framework for retheorizing the city as a product of metabolic processes of socionatural transformation. However, there was another goal in early UPE programmatic statements that has largely fallen by the wayside: to…
Expand the frontiers of urban sustainability
From the city lens toward urbanisation as a way of seeing: Country/city binaries on an urbanising planet
In recent years, three superficially distinct urban subfields have made parallel efforts to incorporate the city’s traditional ‘outsides’ into urban research. Urban political ecology, American urban sociology and postcolonial urban studies have made, respectively, ‘nature’, the ‘rural’ and the ‘not-yet’ city the objects of self-consciously urban analyses. I argue that these interventions are analogous efforts to hybridise city/nature, city/countr…
Long waves of urban reform: Putting the smart city in its place
This article maps urban reform movements onto ‘long waves:’ consistently patterned technological and economic cycles that repeat over time. Using the example of the United States, we argue that periodizing urban reform movements in this way reveals surprising similarities in different historical contexts. Across cycles, two tropes repeatedly appear: discourses of efficiency, that propose technological solutions to urban problems, and those of bea…
Green and Gray: New Ideologies of Nature in Urban Sustainability Policy
In the past two decades, urban sustainability has become a new policy common sense. This article argues that contemporary urban sustainability thought and practice is coconstituted by two distinct representational forms, which we call green urban nature and gray urban nature. Green urban nature is the return of nature to the city in its most verdant form, signified by street trees, urban gardens, and the greening of postindustrial landscapes. Gra…
Added value? Denaturalizing the "good" of urban greening
In recent years, "urban greening" has become a new keyword in urban policy and practice, used to describe a proliferation of urban quality of life and environmental sustainability initiatives including street trees, public parks, greenways, farmers' markets, green roofs, and LEED certification in design. The emerging critical literature on urban greening has highlighted important ways green's social and economic added value affects the political …
The greening imaginary: Urbanized nature in Germany's Ruhr region
How Green Became Good: Urbanized Nature and the Making of Cities and Citizens
Why does everyone think cities can save the planet
This article identifies and explains an underlying transition in global urban policy and discourse from the city as a sustainability problem to the city as a sustainability solution. We argue that contemporary policy discourses of cities saving the planet should be understood in the context of three major historical developments which have their roots in the 1970s and which intensified throughout the 1990s. The first is sprawl: the urban sustaina…
Between Fixity and Motion: Emplacing Tech in New York City - Sharon Zukin, The Innovation Complex: Cities, Tech, and the New Economy (Oxford, OUP, 2020, 296 p)
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Out in Space: Difference and Abstraction in Planetary Urbanization
A common thread has emerged in recent critiques of planetary urbanization. Whether on empirical, epistemological or theoretical grounds, critics tend to posit 'difference against abstraction', arguing that planetary urbanization-as an abstract theory of large-scale phenomena-occludes 'everyday' embodied, small-scale and place-based forms of social difference in its production and/or application. Here we engage with this critique as two queer, fem…
Missing the Housing for the Trees: Equity in Urban Climate Planning
This paper examines equity’s incorporation into Climate Action Plans (CAPs), an increasingly important part of the urban sustainability planning landscape. We conduct a content analysis of 170 California CAPs and compare the plans’ treatment of equity to city characteristics such as size and income inequality. We find that equity language correlates with an increased presence of more systemic policy interventions, such as dense and/or affordable …
Repairing Infrastructures: The Maintenance of Materiality and Power
Environmentalizing Urban Sociology
Building more epistemically inclusive and environmentally equitable universities
Higher educational institutions tend to draw from mainstream approaches to environmentalism that reinforce race, class, and gender hierarchies around who constitutes “an environmentalist” and what activities constitute “environmentalism.” As a result, students of color and students from other marginalized backgrounds who often experience environmental degradation and catastrophe firsthand do not often see their experiences reflected in universiti…
The Moral Work of Participation: Disillusio, Expertise, and Urban Planning Under Neoliberalism
A Sociology of Real Estate: Polanyi, Du Bois, and the Relational Study of Commodified Land in a Climate-Changed Future
Real estate plays an essential part in various sociological theories of political economy, state capacity, racecraft, stratification, and urbanization. However, since foundational insights about the novelty of commodified, emplaced private property from theorists like Du Bois and Polanyi, these disparate threads have not been tied together into a coherent field of study. Here, we review three areas of recent scholarship relevant to understanding …
Singularity, specificity, urgency: “Crisis” in urban climate research
This commentary reflects on the appearance of “crisis” in urban climate research. I find that it most often appears as a description of a new and singular context, as a historically specific event, and as an urgent injunction to act. I evaluate the pros and cons of such crisis framings, concluding that they tend to produce analytics oriented toward present uniqueness rather than durable patterns, on complexity rather than foundational causes, and…
Climate change and urban-agrarian solidarities
As climate change has heightened the significance of urban-agrarian material entanglements and intellectual and political oppositions, the need to speak across them has become more urgent. Scholarship in agrarian and urban studies is concerned with specific social processes and political demands in agrarian and urban contexts, respectively. These processes and demands are often articulated in opposition to one another, despite the fact that the p…
Emancipatory Politics in a Time of Climate Crisis
Pushed to the Brink
How does the climate crisis bump up against the limits of our knowledge? This mixed-media triptych is an experimental collaboration between a philosopher and a sociologist. Part 1, a three-panel visual extinction collage, exposes the discontinuities of geological time across three Anthropocene landscapes composed of Holocene fragments. Part 2, a collaborative erasure poem, cuts into well-known “man in the wilderness” writings through a queer femi…
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