Abstract
As the consequences of neoliberal capitalism continue to ravage working people, especially women and communities of colour, there is a need for geographers to keep looking for ways to connect emancipatory theories of change with communities engaged in geographically situated forms of radical praxis. We argue it is equally important to understand and confront the politics of nature as directly experienced through uneven impacts related to energy, waste, toxic exposure and other destructive socio-ecological relations. Within urban political ecology today the question of how to connect models of public engagement and radical praxis to the politics of nature remains open.