Episode Summary
Yousaf Nishat-Botero on the Ecologies of Planning and Metabolic Municipalism.
Shownotes Yousaf Nishat-Botero
Dr. Yousaf Nishat-Botero at the University of Birmingham:
https://research.birmingham.ac.uk/en/persons/yousaf-nishat-botero/
Nishat-Botero, Y. (2023). Planning’s ecologies: Democratic planning in the age of planetary crises. Organization. Special Issue: Public Value, 1-23.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13505084231186749
Nishat-Botero, Y. & Thompson, M. (2025). Planning in Nature’s Metropolis: Metabolic Municipalism and Ecological Planning in Barcelona. Environment and Planning D.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/02637758251364061
Nishat-Botero, Y. & Thompson, M. The land question and postcapitalist countrysides: towards a town-country synthesis. In Postcapitalist Countrysides (N. Gallent, M.Gkartzios, M. Scott, A. Purves (Eds.). UCL Press.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/379514594_The_land_question_and_postcapitalist_countrysides_towards_a_town-country_synthesis
on ‘metabolism’ in Liebig and Marx:
Clark, B. & Foster, J. B. (2018). The Robbery of Nature: Capitalism and the Metabolic Rift. Monthly Review 70(3).
https://monthlyreview.org/articles/the-robbery-of-nature/
Marx, K. ([1867] 2004). Capital: Volume I. Penguin U
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/35192/capital-by-karl-marx-intro-ernest-mandel-trans-ben-fowkes/9780140445688
Sorg, C. (2023). Failing to Plan is Planning to Fail: Toward an Expanded Notion of Democratically Planned Postcapitalism. Critical Sociology 49(3), 475-493.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/08969205221081058
Salleh, A. (2010). From Metabolic Rift to “Metabolic Value”: Reflections on Environmental Sociology and the Alternative Globalization Movement. Organization & Environment 23(2), 205-219.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/27068655
on ‘capitalism as socioecological totality’:
Fraser, N. (2022). Cannibal Capitalism: How our System is Devouring Democracy, Care, and the Planet – and what we can do about it. Verso.
https://www.versobooks.com/products/2685-cannibal-capitalism
Moore, J. (2015). Capitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital. Verso.
https://www.versobooks.com/products/74-capitalism-in-the-web-of-life
Planning for Entropy. (2022). Democratic Economic Planning, Social Metabolism and the Environment. Science and Society Journal. Vol 82, Nr 2. New York: Guilford Publications
https://guilfordjournals.com/doi/10.1521/siso.2022.86.2.291
Latour, B. & Weibel, P. (2020). Critical Zones. The Science and Politics of Landing on Earth. MIT Press.
https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262044455/critical-zones/
on the Oskar-Lange-Model:
