Interview with Erik Swyngedouw

Abstract

Erik Swyngedouw is a geographer and political ecologist who has been working in United Kingdom, where he is Professor of Political and Economic Geography at School of Environment, Education and Development of the University of Manchester. With environmental background and a PhD in critical geography, Swyngedouw is a key author in understanding the uses of nature as power dispositive in the production of space by modernity. His work covers studies on scale, nature discourses, water controlling, post-democracy contexts – all guided by dense critical analysis of globalization process. He recently published Liquid Power, in which he analyzes the role of water controlling over the production of Spanish space by francoist government. This interview was conducted in English on the occasion of Professor Swyngedouw´s participation in the “Knowledge / Culture / Ecologies” Conference in Santiago de Chile in November 2017, being translated by me to Portuguese.