Διάλεξη του Erik Swyngedouw καθηγητή στο Πανεπιστήμιο του Manchester

Erik Swyngedouw is Professor of Geography at Manchester University. He was professor of Geography at Oxford University and Fellow of St. Peter’s College until 2006. He holds a
Ph.D. in Geography and Environmental Engineering from the Johns Hopkins University and Masters in Urban Planning and in Agricultural Engineering from the University of Leuven,
Belgium. He has held visiting professorships at the Universities of Seville, Spain, the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium
, the University of Washington, Seattle,  York University, Toronto, and Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada.

His research interests include political-ecology, urban governance, democracy and political power, water and water resources, the political-economy of capitalist societies, urb
an social and political struggles, the dynamics of urban and regional change, and the politics of globalisation. He has published over 50 papers on these themes. Recent books i
nclude ‘Urbanising Globalisation’ (co-edited, OUP 2003), ‘Social Power and the Urbanization of Water - Flows of Power’ (OUP 2004) and ‘In the Nature of Cities’ (co-edited, Rout
ledge, 2006). His forthcoming book is on 'Water, Power and Modernity in Spain, 1998-2010'.