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2026

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84
Citations
42129
World Ranking
280
National Ranking
50

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2015 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Erik Swyngedouw is affiliated with the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom and focuses primarily on research within the social sciences. Their work spans several subfields, including political science and international relations, sociology and political science, geography, planning and development, clinical psychology, and literature and literary theory.

The main topics covered in Swyngedouw's research include water governance and infrastructure, geographies of human-animal interactions, psychoanalysis, philosophy and politics, populism and right-wing movements, housing, finance and neoliberalism, hydropower, displacement and environmental impact, and contemporary literature and criticism.

Recent publications highlight a diverse range of themes and venues:

  • Riverhood: political ecologies of socionature commoning and translocal struggles for water justice, 2022, The Journal of Peasant Studies
  • The unbearable lightness of climate populism, 2022, Environmental Politics
  • Illiberalism and the democratic paradox: The infernal dialectic of neoliberal emancipation, 2021, European Journal of Social Theory
  • From Disruption to Transformation: Politicisation at a Distance from the State, 2020, Antipode
  • Enjoying climate change: Jouissance as a political factor, 2023, Political Geography

Frequent collaboration is noted with several co-authors, including Lucas Pohl, Rutgerd Boelens, Lena Hommes, Jeroen Vos, and Jaime Hoogesteger.

The scholar has contributed multiple publications to well-known academic journals, with repeated appearances in Environmental Politics and European Journal of Social Theory, as well as contributions to The Journal of Peasant Studies, Antipode, and Political Geography.

In addition to articles, Swyngedouw has published books with Johns Hopkins University and the European Organization for Nuclear Research. Notable titles include Promises of the Political: Insurgent Cities in a Post-Political Environment (2020) and Water Territorialities. Knowledge and Action to Build the Future that we Want [in Spanish and Portuguese] (2nd edition) (2020).

Their research interests and outputs integrate interdisciplinary approaches toward understanding the political, social, and environmental dimensions of contemporary issues, with significant attention to water governance and urban political ecology.

Erik Swyngedouw has been recognized as a member of Academia Europaea since 2015.

Best Publications

  • Governance Innovation and the Citizen: The Janus Face of Governance-beyond-the-State:

    Erik Swyngedouw

  • Social Power and the Urbanization of Water: Flows of Power

    Erik Swyngedouw

  • Neoliberal Urbanization in Europe: Large–Scale Urban Development Projects and the New Urban Policy

    Erik Swyngedouw;Frank Moulaert;Arantxa Rodriguez

  • Globalisation or Glocalisation? Networks, Territories and Rescaling

    Erik Swyngedouw

  • Modernity and Hybridity: Nature, Regeneracionismo, and the Production of the Spanish Waterscape, 1890–1930

    Erik Swyngedouw

  • In the Nature of Cities: Urban Political Ecology and the Politics of Urban Metabolism

    Nik Heynen;Maria Kaika;E. Swyngedouw;Gary Bridge

  • Urban Political Ecology, Justice and the Politics of Scale

    Erik Swyngedouw;Nikolas C Heynen

  • Neither Global Nor Local: ?Glocalization' and the Politics of Scale

    E. Swyngedouw

  • Apocalypse Forever? Post-political Populism and the Spectre of Climate Change

    Erik Swyngedouw

  • Towards alternative model(s) of local innovation

    Frank Moulaert;Flavia Martinelli;Erik Swyngedouw;Sara Gonzalez

  • The Antinomies of the Postpolitical City: In Search of a Democratic Politics of Environmental Production

    Erik Swyngedouw

  • Impossible Sustainability and the Post-political Condition

    Erik Swyngedouw

  • Authoritarian Governance, Power and the Politics of Rescaling

    Erik Swyngedouw

  • The Political Economy and Political Ecology of the Hydro-Social Cycle

    Erik Swyngedouw

  • Fetishizing the modern city: the phantasmagoria of urban technological networks

    Maria Kaika;Erik Swyngedouw

  • Hydrosocial territories: a political ecology perspective

    Rutgerd Boelens;Jaime Hoogesteger;Erik Swyngedouw;Jeroen Vos

  • The Mammon Quest: 'Glocalization', Interspatial Competition and the Monetary Order: The Construction of New Scales

    E Swyngedouw;M Dunford;G Kafkalis

  • The City as a Hybrid -- On Nature, Society and Cyborg Urbanisation

    Erik Swyngedouw

  • Interrogating post-democratization: Reclaiming egalitarian political spaces

    Erik Swyngedouw

  • Circulations and metabolisms: (Hybrid) Natures and (Cyborg) cities

    Erik Swyngedouw

  • Urban Political Ecology, Justice and the Politics of Scale (Reprint)

    E Swyngedouw;N Heynen;G Bridge;S Watson

Frequent Co-Authors

Rutgerd Boelens
Rutgerd Boelens University of Amsterdam
Stefan Bouzarovski
Stefan Bouzarovski University of Manchester
Eugene McCann
Eugene McCann Simon Fraser University
Saskia Sassen
Saskia Sassen Columbia University
Heather Viles
Heather Viles University of Oxford
Andrew Goudie
Andrew Goudie University of Oxford
David Wilson
David Wilson Binghamton University
Philippus Wester
Philippus Wester International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development
Thomas E. Downing
Thomas E. Downing Stockholm Environment Institute

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