Research

RESEARCH INTERESTS
Racial and Economic Justice; Political Ecology; Urban Social Movements; Social Reproduction; Racial Capitalism; Hunger/Food Studies

Publication Information available at Google Scholar and Academia.edu

BOOKS

• Jazeel, T, A. Kent, K. McKittrick, N. Theodore, S. Chari, P. Chatterton, V. Gidwani, N. Heynen W. Larner, J. Peck, J. Pickerill, M. Werner, M. W. Wright (eds) (2019) Keywords in Radical Geography. Oxford: Wiley.

• Heynen, N., A. Kent, K. McKittrick, V. Gidwani, W. Larner (Eds.), 2017. Revolutionary Imperative: Engaging the Work of Neil Smith. Wiley-Blackwell. [published simultaneously as a special issue of Antipode, 49 s1]

• Castree, N., M. Wright, W. Larner, N. Heynen, and P. Chatterton (Eds.), 2010. The Point is to Change It: Geographies of Hope and Survival in an Age of Crisis. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers. [published simultaneously as a special issue of Antipode, 41.6]

• Heynen, N., J. McCarthy, W.S.Prudham and P. Robbins (Eds.), 2007. Neoliberal Environments: False Promises and Unnatural Consequences. London; New York: Routledge.

• Heynen, N., M. Kaika and E. Swyngedouw (Eds.) , 2006. In the Nature of Cities: Urban Political Ecology and the Politics of Urban Metabolism. London; New York: Routledge.

• Conway, D. and N. Heynen (Eds.), 2006. Globalization’s Contradictions: Geographies of Discipline, Destruction & Transformation. London; New York: Routledge.

GUEST EDITED JOURNAL ISSUES

• Ybarra, M and N. Heynen (2020; on-line first) Abolition Ecologies. Special Issue; Antipode: A Journal of Radical Geography.

• Heynen, N. (2018) Social Justice and the City. Special Issue; Annals of the American Association of Geographers. 108(2).

• Heynen, N., A. Kent, K. McKittrick, V. Gidwani, W. Larner (2017) The Revolutionary Imperative: Engaging the Work of Neil Smith. Antipode: A Journal of Radical Geography. 49: s1.

• Heynen, N (2016) Review Symposium for Shadows of a Sunbelt City: The Environment, Racism, and the Knowledge Economy of Austin by Eliot Tretter. The AAG Review of Books
• Heynen, N. (2015) Review Symposium for Nature Inc.: Environmental Conservation in the Neoliberal Age edited by Bram Büscher, Wolfram Dressler, Robert Fletcher. Environment and Planning A.
• Barnes, T. and N. Heynen, 2011. Classics in Human Geography–Fitzgerald: Geography of Revolution by W. W. Bunge.  Progress in Human Geography.  35(5) 712–720.20
• Prudham, W. S. and N. Heynen , 2011. Uneven Development 25 Years Later. New Political Economy.
• Castree, N., M. Wright, W. Larner, N. Heynen, and P. Chatterton (Eds.), 2010. The Point is to Change It: Geographies of Hope and Survival in an Age of Crisis. Antipode, 41.S1 [Book published simultaneously Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers]
• Heynen, N. and P. Robbins, 2005. The Commodifcation of Nature. Capitalism Nature Socialism. 13(1)
• Swyngedouw, E. and N.C. Heynen, 2003. Urban Political Ecology in Advanced Capitalist Countries. Antipode: A Journal of Radical Geography. 35(5)

ARTICLES

• Hardy, D., M. Bailey, & N. Heynen. 2021; forthcoming. “The Future is not Foregone: An Abolition Ecology Blockade on Double Dispossession. Annals of the American Association of Geographers.
• Hardy, R.D. and N. Heynen. 2021; on-line first. ““I am Sapelo”: Racialized Uneven Development and Land Politics within the Gullah/ Geechee Corridor.” Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space
  Heynen, N. and M. Ybarra. 2021 “On Abolition Ecologies and Making ‘Freedom as a Place’” Antipode. 53(1): 21-35.

• Heynen, N. 2021 ““A Plantation can be a Commons”: Re-Earthing the Commons through Abolition Ecology.” Antipode. 53(1): 95-114.

• Bailey, M and N. Heynen. 2020. “Sweet (and Sticky) Redemption: Gullah/Geechee of Sapelo Island Reclaim Sugarcane to Fight Cultural Erasure” Scalawag. September 29.

• Luke, N. and N. Heynen. (2020) “Community Solar as Energy Reparations: Abolishing Petro-Racial Capitalism in New Orleans.” American Quarterly. 72(3): 603-625.

• Brownson, K., J. C. Chappell, C. Mertzlufft, J. C. Bloodgood, H. Eisler Burnett, L. M. Kosen, J. Howard, T. Gancos Crawford, C. M. Pringle, J. Meador L. Guinessey, N. Heynen, J. S. Ortiz (2021; on-line first) “Land trusts as conservation boundary organizations in rapidly exurbanizing landscapes: A case study from southern Appalachia”. Society and Natural Resources.
• Heynen, N (2020) “What Harriet Tubman and John Brown Can Teach Us About Abolishing
  ‘White Men’” Dialogues in Human Geography. 10(1): 30-33
• Luke, N. and N. Heynen. 2021. “Abolishing the Frontier: (De)Colonizing “Public” Education” Social and Cultural Geography. 22:(3): 403-424.

• Collard, R., L. Harris, N. Heynen, L. Mehta. 2018. “The Antinomies of Nature and Space” Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space. 1(1–2) 3–24.

• Welch-Devine, M., A. Shaw, J. Coffield and N. Heynen. 2018. “Facilitating Interdisciplinary Graduate Education: Barriers, Solutions, and Needed Innovations.” Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 50(5): 53-59.

• Heynen, N. 2018. “Urban political ecology III: The feminist and queer century.” Progress in Human Geography, 42(3): 446-452.

• Heynen, N., D. Aiello, C. Keegan, N. Luke. 2018. “The Enduring Struggle for Social Justice and the City.” Annals of the American Association of Geographers. 108(2): 301-316.
• Boggs, G. L, C. L. Bell and N. Heynen .2018. “We make the road by talking: Collaborative teacher education, literacy research, and direct action through an ethic of mutual aid.” American Reading Forum Online Yearbook. XXXVIII.
• Heynen, N. .2018. “Toward an Abolition Ecology” Abolition: A Journal of Insurgent Politics. 1(1): 240-247.
• Hardy, R.D., R.A. Milligan and N. Heynen. 2017. “Racial Coastal Formation: Placing Race in the Making of Vulnerability to Sea-Level Rise.” Geoforum. 87: 62-72.
• Heynen, N. A. Kent, K. McKittrick, V. Gidwani, W. Larner. 2017. “Neil Smith’s Long Revolutionary Imperative.” Antipode. 49(s1): 5-18.
• Heynen, N. 2018. Toward an Abolition Ecology” Abolition: A Journal of Insurgent Politics.
• Heynen, N. A. Kent, K. McKittrick, V. Gidwani, W. Larner. (2017). “Neil Smith’s Long Revolutionary Imperative.” Antipode. 49(s1): 5-18.

• Heynen, N. (2016). “Urban Political Ecology II: The Abolitionist Century” Progress Report for Progress in Human Geography. 40(6): 839-845.

• Black, S., R. Milligan and N. Heynen. 2016. “Solidarity in Climate/Immigrant Justice Direct Action: Lessons from movements in the U.S. South”. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. 40(2), 284-298.

• Yen-Kohl, E. and The Newtown Florist Club Writing Collective. 2016. ““We’ve been studied to death, we ain’t gotten anything”: (Re)claiming knowledge production through writing collectives.” Capitalism, Nature, Socialism. 27(1): 1-16.

• Burke, B. J., M. Welch-Devine, S. Gustafson, N. Heynen, J. L. Rice, T.L. Gragson, S. Evans, D. R. Nelson. 2016. “Can science writing collectives overcome barriers to more democratic communication and collaboration? Lessons from environmental communication praxis in southern Appalachia.” Environmental Communication. 10(2): 169-186

• Heynen, N. 2015. “If I am Troy Davis, I Failed Troy Davis: Abolishing the Death Penalty through an Antiracist People’s Geography.” ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies. 14(4): 1066-1082.

• Rice, J.L., B.J. Burke, N. Heynen. 2015. “Knowing Climate Change, Embodying Climate Praxis: Experiential Knowledge in Southern Appalachia.” Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 105(2): 253-262.

• Burke, B.J. and N. Heynen. 2014. “Transforming Participatory Science into Socio-Ecological Praxis: Valuing Marginalized Environmental Knowledges in the Face of the Neoliberalization of Nature and Science.’ Environment and Society. 5: 7–27.

• Gustafson, S., N. Heynen,  J.L. Rice, T. Gragson, J. M. Shepherd, C. Strother. 2014. “Megapolitan Political Ecology and Urban Metabolism in Southern Appalachia.”  Professional Geographer.66(1): 688-694.

• Heynen, N. 2014. “Urban Political Ecology I: The Urban Century” Progress in Human Geography. 38(4): 598-604.

• Vercoe, R., M Welch-Devine, R Hardy, J Demoss, S Bonney, K Allen, J. P. Brosius, D Charles, B Crawford, S. Heisel, N.Heynen, R. de Jesús-Crespo, N. Nibbelink, L. Parker, C. Pringle, A Shaw, L Van Sant. 2014. “Acknowledging Trade-offs and Understanding Complexity: Exurbanization Issues in Macon County, North Carolina.”  Ecology and Society.  19(1): 23.

• Heynen, N. 2013. “Marginalia of a Revolution: Naming Popular Ethnography and Republishing William W. Bunge’s Fitzgerald.” Social and Cultural Geography. 14 (7):  744–751

• Ogden, L. N. Heynen, P. West, U. Oslender, P. Robbins, 2013. “Global assemblages, resilience, and Earth Stewardship in the Anthropocene.” Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. 11: 341–347 [Special issue on Earth Stewardship].

• Heynen, N., H.E. Kurtz, and A. K. Trauger. 2012. “Food, Hunger and the City.” Geography Compass. 6: 304-311.

• Heynen, N. and J. Rhodes. 2012. “Organizing for Survival: From the Civil Rights Movement to Black Anarchism through the Life of Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin.”  ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies. 11(3): 393-412 [Special issue on Anarchism, Autonomia, and Radical Geography]

• Heynen, N., P. Hossler and A. Herod. 2011. “Surviving Uneven Development: Social Reproduction and the Perseverance of Capitalism.” New Political Economy. 16(2): 239-245. [Special issue on Uneven Development 25 Years Later]

• Prudham, S. and N. Heynen, 2011. “‘Uneven Development’ 25 Years On: Space, Nature and the Geographies of Capitalism.” New Political Economy. 16(2): 223-232. [Special issue on Uneven Development 25 Years Later]

• Barnes, T. and N. Heynen, 2011. “ A classic in human geography: William Bunge’s (1971) Fitzgerald: Geography of a Revolution.” Progress in Human Geography. 35(5): 712–720.

• Heynen, N. 2010. “Cooking up Non-Violent Civil Disobedient Direct Action for the Hungry: Food Not Bombs and the Resurgence of Radical Democracy.” Urban Studies. 47(6): 1225-1240 [Special issue on Cities and Conflict].

• Castree, N., M. Wright, W. Larner, N. Heynen, and P. Chatterton. 2010. “The Point is to Change It.” In Castree, N., M. Wright, W. Larner, N. Heynen, and P. Chatterton. Antipode: A Journal of Radical Geography. 41.S1. [Special 40th Anniversary issue]

• Mitchell, D. and N. Heynen. 2009. “The Geography of Survival and the Right to the City: Speculations on Surveillance, Legal Innovation, and the Criminalization of Intervention.” Urban Geography. 30:(6): 611-632 [Special issue on Homelessness/Rights/Space]

• Heynen, N. 2009. “Bending the Bars of Empire from Every Ghetto to Feed the Kids: The Black Panther Party’s Radical Anti-Hunger Politics of Social Reproduction and Scale.“ The Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 99(2):406-422.

• Heynen, N. 2009. “Back to Revolutionary Theory through Racialized Poverty: The McGee Family’s Utopian Struggle for Milwaukee.“ The Professional Geographer. 61(2): 187-199. [Special issue on Racialized Poverty in Urban America]

• Heynen, N., 2008. “Bringing the Body Back to Life through the Radical Geography of Hunger: The Haymarket Affair and its Aftermath.” ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies. 7(1): 32-44.

• Heynen, N., H.A. Perkins and P. Roy. 2007. “Failing to Grow ‘Their’ Own Justice? The Co- Production of Racial/Gendered Labor and Milwaukee’s Urban Forest.” Urban Geography. 28(8): 732-754.

• Heynen, N., H.A. Perkins and P. Roy. 2006. “The Political Ecology of Uneven Urban Green Space: The Impact of Political Economy on Race and Ethnicity in Producing Environmental Inequality in Milwaukee.” Urban Affairs Review. 42(1): 3-25.

• Heynen, N, 2006. “‘But it’s alright, Ma, it’s life, and life only’: Radicalism as Survival.” Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography. 38(5): 916-929.
• Heynen, N. 2006. “Green Urban Political Ecologies: Toward a Better Understanding of Inner City Environmental Change.” Environment and Planning A. 38(3): 499-516.

• Heynen, N. and P. Robbins. 2005. “The Neoliberalization of Nature: Governance, Privatization, Enclosure and Valuation.” Capitalism Nature Socialism. 16(1): 5-8.

• Heynen, N. and H.A. Perkins. 2005. “Scalar Dialectics in Green: Urban Private Property and the Contradictions of the Neoliberalization of Nature.” Capitalism Nature Socialism. 16(1): 99-113.

• Perkins, H.A., N. Heynen and J. Wilson. 2004. “Inequity in an Urban Reforestation Program: The Impact of Housing Tenure on Urban Forests.“ Cities. 21(4): 291-299.

• Heynen, N.C. 2003. “The Scalar Production of Injustice within the Urban Forest.” Antipode: A Journal of Radical Geography. 35(5): 980-998. READ MORE

• Swyngedouw, E. and N.C. Heynen. 2003. “Urban Political Ecology, Justice and the Politics of Scale.” Antipode: A Journal of Radical Geography. 35(5): 898-918.

• Heynen, N.C. and G. Lindsey. 2003. “Correlates of Urban Forest Canopy Cover: Implications for Local Public Works.” Public Works Management and Policy. 8(1): 33-47.

• Unruh, J., N.C. Heynen and P. Hossler. 2003. “The Political Ecology of Recovery from Land Mine Use in Armed Conflict: The Case of Mozambique.” Political Geography. 22(8): 841-861.

• Pedlowski, M.A., V.A. Carneiro Dasilva, J.J.C. Adell and N.C. Heynen. 2002. “Urban Forest and Environmental Inequality in Campos dos Goytacazes, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil.” Urban Ecosystems. 6 (1-2): 9-20.

BOOK CHAPTERS

• Warren, G., C. Katz and N. Heynen (2019) “Myths, cults, memories, and revisions in radical geographic history: Revisiting the Detroit Geographical Expedition and Institute (DGEI)”. In (eds.) T. Barnes and E. Sheppard Spatial Histories of Radical Geography: North America and Beyond (eds.). London: Wiley.

• Heynen, N, D. Aiello, C. Keegan, and N. Luke (2019). “The Enduring Struggle for Social Justice and the City” (ed.) N. Heynen, Social Justice and the City. New York: Routledge.

• Heynen, N. (2018) “Uneven Racial Development and the Abolition Ecology of the City”. In (eds.) H. Ernstson and E. Swyngedouw Interrupting the Anthropo-ob(S)cene: Political Possibilities in the Natures of Cities. London and New York: Routledge.

• Heynen, N., N. Luke, and C. Keegan (2018) “Doreen Massey’s (urban) Political Ecology” In (eds.). M. Werner, J. Peck, R. Lave and B. Christophers (eds.) Doreen Massey—Critical Dialogues.

• Heynen, N. A. Kent, K. McKittrick, V. Gidwani, W. Larner. 2017. “Neil Smith’s Long Revolutionary Imperative.” The Revolutionary Imperative: Engaging the Work of Neil Smith. London: Wiley.

• Heynen, N. “Urban Political Ecology” 2017. In (Eds.) N. Castree, M. Goodchild, W. Liu, A. Kobayashi, R. Marston, and D. Richardson. The International Encyclopedia of Geography. Wiley-Blackwell and the Association of American Geographers.

• Heynen, N. 2016. “Urban Ecology” In Gleason, W., J. Adamson, D.N. Pellow (eds.) Keywords in the Study of Environment and Culture. New York: New York University Press. pp. 192-194.

• Ogden, L., N. Heynen, U.Oslender, P. West, K. Kassam and P. Robbins. 2015. “The Politics of Earth Stewardship in the Uneven Anthropocene.” In Rozzi, R., S. Pickett, J. Baird Callicott, T. Chapin, M. Power, and J. Armesto (eds.) Earth Stewardship: Linking Ecology & Ethics in Theory and Practice. Springer.

• Heynen, N. and L. Van Sant. 2015. “Political Ecologies of Activism and Direct Action Politics” In (eds.) J. McCarthy, G. Bridge and T. Perreault. Handbook of Political Ecology. New York, London: Routledge. pp. 169-178.

• Newtown Florist Club Writing Collective. 2013. “Peas and Praxis: Organizing (Food/Environmental) Justice through the Direct Action of the Newtown Florist Club.” In R. Slocum and A. Saldanha (eds.) Geographies of Race and Food: Fields, Bodies, Markets.  Ashgate Press.  pp, 137-153.

• Heynen, N. and G. Pickren. 2011. “Killing for Liberalism: How the U.S. Department of Peace  might be Antithetical to a Nonkilling Geography.”  In. J. Inwood and J. Tyner (Eds.) Non-killing Geographies. Honolulu, Hawai‘i: Center for Global Nonkilling. pp. 55-64.

• Heynen, N. and T. Barnes. 2011. Fitzgerald Then and Now. New Preface for the Second Edition of William W. Bunge’s Fitzgerald: Geography of Revolution. University of Georgia Press.

• Chatterton, P. and N. Heynen. 2011. Resistance(s) and Collective Social Action in A Companion to Social Geography (Eds.) V. J. Del Casino Jr., M. Thomas, P. Cloke, and R. Panelli. Pp. 508-525

• Heynen, N. 2009. Revolutionary Cooks in the Hungry Ghetto: The Black Panther Party’s Biopolitics of Scale From Below In R. Keil and R. Mahon (Eds.) Leviathan Undone? Towards a Political Economy of Scale. University of British Colombia Press. Pp 265-280

• Heynen, N., J. McCarthy, W.S.Prudham and P. Robbins. 2007. False Promises In N. Heynen, J. McCarthy, W.S. Prudham and P. Robbins (Eds.) Neoliberal Environments: False Promises and Unnatural Consequences. London; New York: Routledge.

• Heynen, N., J. McCarthy, W.S.Prudham and P. Robbins. 2007. Unnatural Consequences In N. Heynen, J. McCarthy, W.S. Prudham and P. Robbins (Eds.) Neoliberal Environments: False Promises and Unnatural Consequences. London; New York: Routledge.

• Conway, D. and N. Heynen. 2006. Globalization’s Dimensions. In D. Conway and N. Heynen (Eds.) Globalization’s Contradictions: Geographies of Discipline, Destruction & Transformation. London; New York: Routledge.

• Heynen, N. and J. Njeru.  2006. Ecological Globalization and the Social Production of Nature. In D. Conway and N. Heynen (Eds.) Globalization’s Contradictions: Geographies of Discipline, Destruction & Transformation.

• Conway, D. and N. Heynen. 2006. The Ascendancy of Globalization and Neoliberalism. In D. Conway and N. Heynen (Eds.) Globalization’s Contradictions: Geographies of Discipline, Destruction & Transformation. London; New York: Routledge.

• Conway, D and N. Heynen. 2006. Toward ‘fair globalization’: Opposing Neoliberal Destruction, Relying on the Democratic Institutions and Local Empowerment, and Sustaining Human Development. In D. Conway and N.C. Heynen (Eds.) Globalization’s Contradictions: Geographies of Discipline, Destruction & Transformation. London; New York: Routledge.

• Heynen, N. 2006. Justice of Eating in the City: The Political Ecology of Urban Hunger. In N. Heynen, M. Kaika and E. Swyngedouw (Eds.) In the Nature of Cities: Urban Political Ecology and the Politics of Urban Metabolism. London: Routledge. pp 129-142.

• Heynen, N., M. Kaika and E. Swyngedouw. 2006. Urban Political Ecology: Politicising the Production of Urban Natures. In N. Heynen, M. Kaika and E. Swyngedouw (Eds.) In the Nature of Cities: Urban Political Ecology and the Politics of Urban Metabolism. London: Routledge.