ABSTRACT
Extended suburbanization has become a core base for capitalist production, but also a scale of cognition and a terrain for action. This chapter analyses how “capital switching” produced and exported suburbanization across the world and became deeply tied up with “the Anthropocene.” It then critiques the prevailing emphasis on city cores (globalized, gentrified, normalized, densified) as the prime location for mainstream environmental savviness and radical politics. Rather, we need to take an interest in how suburban space, from middle-class suburbia to self-constructed slums, are not static, conservative, and a-historical, but can harbour political ecological ruptures and possibilities on a planet conditioned by its making.
