Nik Heynen, Assistant Professor
Office: Bolton Hall 482
Phone: 414-229-4872
Fax: 414-229-3981
Email: nheynen@uwm.edu
Mailing Address:
Professor Nik Heynen
Department of Geography
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
P.O. Box 413
Milwaukee, WI 53201-0413
Education:
Ph.D., Geography, Indiana University, Bloomington, 2002.
M.A., Geography, Indiana University, Bloomington, 1998.
B.A., Geography, and Urban Studies Certificate, Indiana University, Bloomington, 1996.
Current Courses: Spring 2006
Introduction to Environmental Geography
Geography (GEOG) 125, LEC 402
MW 9-9:50am, BOL B52
Selected Topics in Geography: "Politics of Scale"
Geography (GEOG) 905, SEM 001
W 2-4:40pm, BOL 487
Office Hours:
By Appt. Only
Research and Teaching Interests:
Urban Political Ecology/Environmental Justice
Urban Political Economy
Critical Social Theory
Development: Globalization and Neoliberalism
North America, Latin America, Africa
Representative Publications:
Justice of Eating in the City: The Political Ecology of Urban Hunger. In: In the Nature of Cities: Urban Political Ecology and the Politics of Urban Metabolism, edited by N. Heynen, M. Käika and E. Swyngedouw, London, Routledge; 2006.129-142.
Scalar Dialectics in Green: Urban Private Property and the Contradictions of the Neoliberalization of Nature, Capitalism Nature Socialism (included in a special issue on the Commodifcation of Nature, guest edited by N.Heynen and P. Robbins), 16(1), 2004, pp. 99-113.
The Scalar Production of Injustice within the Urban Forest, Antipode: A Journal of Radical Geography (included in a special issue on Urban Political Ecology in Advanced Capitalist Countries, guest edited by E.Swyngedouw and N.Heynen.), 35(5), 2004, pp. 980-998.
Urban Political Ecology, Justice and the Politics of Scale (with E. Swyngedouw) Antipode A Journal of Radical Geography (included in a special issue on Urban Political Ecology in Advanced Capitalist Countries guest edited by E.Swyngedouw and N.Heynen), 35(5), 2004, pp. 898-918.
The Political Ecology of Recovery from Land Mine Use in Armed Conflict: The Case of Mozambique, (with J. Unruh and P. Hossler), Political Geography, 22(8), 2003, pp. 841-861.
