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Enhancing urban autonomy: towards a new political project for cities (2016)
Journal Article
Bulkeley, H., Luque-Ayala, A., McFarlane, C., & MacLeod, G. (2018). Enhancing urban autonomy: towards a new political project for cities. Urban Studies, 55(4), 702-719. https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098016663836

As the 21st Century world assumes an increasingly urban landscape, the question of how definitive urban spaces are to be governed intensifies. At the heart of this debate lies a question about the degree and type of autonomy that towns and cities mig... Read More about Enhancing urban autonomy: towards a new political project for cities.

Life at the urban margins: sanitation infra-making and the potential of experimental comparison (2016)
Journal Article
Lancione, M., & McFarlane, C. (2016). Life at the urban margins: sanitation infra-making and the potential of experimental comparison. Environment and Planning A, 48(12), 2402-2421. https://doi.org/10.1177/0308518x16659772

How is life at the urban margins made and remade? In this paper, we examine this question in relation to ‘sanitation urbanism’, and through attention to what we call ‘infra-making’, defined as the interstitial labour of human and non-human agencies a... Read More about Life at the urban margins: sanitation infra-making and the potential of experimental comparison.

The Poolitical City: “Seeing Sanitation” and Making the Urban Political in Cape Town (2016)
Journal Article
McFarlane, C., & Silver, J. (2017). The Poolitical City: “Seeing Sanitation” and Making the Urban Political in Cape Town. Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography, 49(1), 125-148. https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.12264

In an urbanizing world, the inequalities of infrastructure are increasingly politicized in ways that reconstitute the urban political. A key site here is the politicization of human waste. The centrality of sanitation to urban life means that its pol... Read More about The Poolitical City: “Seeing Sanitation” and Making the Urban Political in Cape Town.

Encountering was it (not) there (2016)
Book Chapter
McFarlane, C. (in press). Encountering was it (not) there. In J. Darling, & H. Wilson (Eds.), Encountering the City. Urban Encounters from Accra to New York (229-232). Ashgate Publishing

Becoming Infrastructure: Body, Waste and the City. (2016)
Book Chapter
Lancione, M., & McFarlane, C. (in press). Becoming Infrastructure: Body, Waste and the City. In A. Blok, & I. Farias (Eds.), Urban Cosmopolitics: Agencements, Assemblies, Atmospheres (45-62). Routledge

Smart Urbanism: Utopian Vision or False Dawn? (2015)
Book
Marvin, S., Luque-Ayala, A., & McFarlane, C. (Eds.). (2016). Smart Urbanism: Utopian Vision or False Dawn?. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315730554

Smart Urbanism (SU) – the rebuilding of cities through the integration of digital technologies with buildings, neighbourhoods, networked infrastructures and people – is being represented as a unique emerging ‘solution’ to the majority of problems fac... Read More about Smart Urbanism: Utopian Vision or False Dawn?.

The Geographies of Urban Density: Topology, Politics and the City (2015)
Journal Article
McFarlane, C. (2016). The Geographies of Urban Density: Topology, Politics and the City. Progress in Human Geography, 40(5), 629-648. https://doi.org/10.1177/0309132515608694

As the world increasingly urbanizes, the imaginaries, conceptions and politics of urban density will become increasingly urgent for research, policy, practice and activism. Density is a keyword in the history of how the city has been conceived and un... Read More about The Geographies of Urban Density: Topology, Politics and the City.

Sites of entitlement : claim, negotiation and struggle in Mumbai (2015)
Journal Article
McFarlane, C., & Desai, R. (2015). Sites of entitlement : claim, negotiation and struggle in Mumbai. Environment and Urbanization, 27(2), 441-454. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956247815583635

This paper develops a conception of “sites of entitlement” as a basis for better understanding how infrastructure and services are perceived and experienced in informal settlements. While legal and policy frameworks are often viewed as the source of... Read More about Sites of entitlement : claim, negotiation and struggle in Mumbai.

Learning cities (2015)
Book Chapter
McFarlane, C. (in press). Learning cities. In M. Jayne, & K. Ward (Eds.), Urban Theory: New Critical Perspectives. Routledge

Informal Infrastructures (2014)
Book Chapter
McFarlane, C., & Vasudevan, A. (2014). Informal Infrastructures. In P. Adey, D. Bissell, K. Hannam, P. Merriman, & M. Sheller (Eds.), Handbook of Mobilities (256-264). Routledge

Smart urbanism: cities, grids and alternatives? (2014)
Book Chapter
Luque, A., McFarlane, C., & Marvin, S. (2014). Smart urbanism: cities, grids and alternatives?. In M. Hodson, & S. Marvin (Eds.), After Sustainable Cities? (74-90). Routeldge

Studies in Comparative Urbanism (2014)
Book Chapter
McFarlane, C. (2014). Studies in Comparative Urbanism. In V. Desai, & R. Potter (Eds.), Companion to Development Studies (296-298). (3rd ed.). Hodder Education

The politics of open defecation: informality, body, and infrastructure in Mumbai (2014)
Journal Article
Desai, R., McFarlane, C., & Graham, S. (2015). The politics of open defecation: informality, body, and infrastructure in Mumbai. Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography, 47(1), 98-120. https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.12117

This paper examines the politics of open defecation by focusing on everyday intersections of the body and infrastructure in the metabolic city, which produces profoundly unequal opportunities for fulfilling bodily needs. Specifically, it examines how... Read More about The politics of open defecation: informality, body, and infrastructure in Mumbai.

Informal Urban Sanitation: Everyday Life, Poverty and Comparison (2014)
Journal Article
McFarlane, C., Desai, R., & Graham, S. (2014). Informal Urban Sanitation: Everyday Life, Poverty and Comparison. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 104(5), 989-1011. https://doi.org/10.1080/00045608.2014.923718

The global sanitation crisis is rapidly urbanizing, but how is sanitation produced and sustained in informal settlements? While there are data available on aggregate statistics, relatively little is known about how sanitation is created, maintained,... Read More about Informal Urban Sanitation: Everyday Life, Poverty and Comparison.