ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to explore the long-term implications of the burgeoning resilient cities initiatives for the space of urban politics. It considers the extent to which in the debate about climate change the global and urban scales can or should be conflated: whether "The urban politics of the twenty-first century be both a local politics and a global politics" as Allan Cochrane envisaged. An urban theoretical sensibility requires adjustments to how knowledge on climate change is generated and circulates. Science and Technology Studies (STS) has been an important disciplinary lens from which to examine the relationship between climate knowledge, society and politics. In conclusion, the reification of the linear model approach to climate knowledge-policy at the global level results in cities being transformed into dystopic, sanitized urban spaces. The chapter concludes by questioning whether it is materially beneficial to imagine a utopian urban climate politics based upon a relational turn.
