Prof  Maria Kaika - Publications

Authored book

• Kaika, M. City of Flows. Routledge, 2005. eScholarID:4b1294

Edited book

• Kaika, M., N Heynen, Swyngedouw, E. In the Nature of Cities: Urban Political Ecology and the Politics of Urban Metabolism. Questioning Cities. New York: Routledge, 2006. eScholarID:4b1295

Book contribution

• M Kaika and E Swyngedouw. "The Urbanization of Nature: Great Promises, Impasse, and New Beginnings." In A New Companion to the City, ed. G. Bridge and S. Watson, 567-580. Oxford: Blackwell, 2010. eScholarID:149005
• Kaika, M. "The end of 'Pre-Modernity': Nature as Progress's Frontier." In Groundworks: environmental collaboration in contem, ed. J. Auses, G. Kester et al, 58-67.Regina Gouger Miller Gallery and Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, 2006. eScholarID:3b3419
• Kaika, M. "Fetishising the Modern City: the Phantasmagoria of Urban Technological Networks." In The Urban Geography Reader, ed. N.R. Fyfe and J.T. Kenny, 2005. eScholarID:3b3424
• Kaika, M. "Water for Europe: shifts in governance and the making of the European Water Framework Directive." In Mapping Water Resources: Past and Present: The Twelfth Annual Linacre Lectures, ed. P. Slack and J. Trottier, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. eScholarID:3b3420
• Kaika, M. "Subways." In Patterned ground, ed. S. Pile and N. Thrift, 2003. eScholarID:3b3421
• Kaika, M. "Mondes Hybrides: sur la Nature, la Société, les Cyborgs." In Discours Scientifiques et Contextes Culturels: géographies françaises et britanniques à l' épreuve postmoderne, ed. C. Chivallon, P. Ragout and M. Samers, 271-284.Talence: Maison des Sciences de l'Homme d'Aquitaine, 2000. eScholarID:3b3423
• Kaika, M. "The environment of the City or ... the Urbanisation of Nature." In A Companion to the City, ed. G. Bridge and S. Watson, 567-580.Oxford: Blackwell, 2000. eScholarID:3b3422

Journal article

• Maria Kaika. "The economic crisis seen from the everyday: Europe's nouveau poor and the global affective implications of a ‘local’ debt crisis." City 16(2012) : 9. eScholarID:185413
• M Kaika. "Autistic Architecture: the fall of the Icon and the Rise of the Serial Object of Architecture." Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 29(2011) : 968-992. eScholarID:149004 | DOI:10.1068/d16110
• Kaika, M. "Architecture and Crisis: re-inventing the Icon, re-imag(in)ing London and re-branding the City." Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 35(2010) : 453-474. eScholarID:128441 | DOI:10.1111/j.1475-5661.2010.00398.x
• Kaika, M. "The Greek insurrection: Debate." International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (Guest editorship) 34, no. 1(2010) . eScholarID:128447
• Kaika, M. "Landscapes of energy: Hydropower from Techno-Natures to Retro-Natures." Harvard New Geographies 2(2009) : 103-110. eScholarID:128446
• Caprotti, F. and Kaika, M. "City and Nature: ideology and representation in fascist New Towns." Social and Cultural Geography 9, no. 6(2008) : 613-634. eScholarID:1b6236 | DOI:10.1080/14649360802292447
• Kaika, M. "Dams as Symbols of Modernization: the Urbanization of Nature Between Geographical Imagination and Materiality." Annals, Association of American Geographers 96, no. 2(2006) : 276-301. eScholarID:1b4419 | DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8306.2006.00478.x
• Kaika, M. "Form follows power: a genealogy of spectacular building." City: analysis of urban trends, culture, theory 10(1)(2006) : 59-69. eScholarID:1b6237 | DOI:10.1080/13604810600594647
• Kaika, M. and E. Swyngedouw. "La production de modernités urbaines "glocales": explorant les failles dans le miroir." Geographie, économie, societé 2(2005) : 155-176. eScholarID:1b6244
• Kaika, M. "Interrogating the Geographies of the Familiar: Domesticating Nature and Constructing the Autonomy of the modern home." International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 28, no. 2(2004) . eScholarID:1b4420 | DOI:10.1111/j.0309-1317.2004.00519.x
• Kaika, M. "Constructing Scarcity and Sensationalising Water Politics: 170 Days that Shook Athens." Antipode 35(5)(2003) . eScholarID:1b4422 | DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8330.2003.00365.x
• Kaika, M. "London: structural continuities and institutional change in water management." European Planning Studies 11(3)(2003) : 283-298. eScholarID:1b6241
• Kaika, M., B Page. "The EU Water Framework Directive Part 1: European policy-making and the changing topography of lobbying." European Environment 13(6)(2003) : 314-327. eScholarID:1b4424 | DOI:10.1002/eet.331
• Kaika, M. "The EU Water Framework Directive Part 2: Policy innovation and the shifting choreography of governance." European Environment 13(6)(2003) : 328-343. eScholarID:1b6240
• Kaika, M. "The Water Framework Directive: a new directive for a changing social, political and economic European framework." European Planning Studies 11(3)(2003) . eScholarID:1b6239 | DOI:10.1080/09654310303640
• Kaika, M. "The making of 'glocal' urban modernities." City 7(1)(2003) : 5-21. eScholarID:1b6238
• Kaika, M and Swyngedouw, E. "Fetishising the Modern City: the Phantasmagoria of Urban Technological Networks." International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 24(1)(2000) . eScholarID:1b6242
• Kaika, M. "Modernity and the Urban spaces of produced nature: the politics and culture of watering Athens 1834-1992." TOPOS: Review of Urban and Regional Studies(2000) . eScholarID:1b6243

Conference contribution

• Kaika, M. 2011. Architecture as Radical Imaginary. Open University, Department of Geography, Milton Keynes. eScholarID:128461
• Kaika, M. 2010. Architecture and crisis. Lancaster University, Centre for Advanced Social Studies, Society and Environment Research Centre. eScholarID:128459
• Kaika, M. 2010. The nature/city dialectics of Modernism: tendencies and experimentations. Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Department of Planning. eScholarID:128460
• Kaika, M. 2010. Urban Utopias from the 19th to the 20th century. University of Birmingham, Department of Geography, and Research Centre for Urban Resilience. eScholarID:128458
• Kaika, M. 2009. The Architecture of Crisis: Reimagining London and Reinventing the Square Mile. King’s College, London – Graduate School. eScholarID:128457
• Kaika, M. 2009. 'The Cultures of Nature': What can social sciences offer to sustainability studies?. K.U.Leuven Research Centre Space & Society, University of Leuven, Belgium. eScholarID:128456
• Kaika, M. 2009. The evolution of utopian thinking: from dreams of collective transformation to lifestyle blueprints. In RGS-IBG Conference. Manchester. eScholarID:128455
• Kaika, M. 2008. Autistic Architecture: Re-imagi(ni)ng London and Reinventing the Square Mile. In UCL Urban Lab Workshop. The Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment, London. eScholarID:128449
• Kaika, M. 2008. Autistic Architecture: Re-imagi(ni)ng London and Reinventing the Square Mile. In The Research Committee for the 21st Century and the International Sociological Association Conference. Tokyo. eScholarID:128453
• Kaika, M. 2008. Not an ordinary City: Reimag(in)ing London in the 21st Century. In Invited Seminar. King’s College London. eScholarID:128454
• Kaika, M. 2008. Promethean landscapes of Modernity and contemporary practices: Conference: Mediterranean waters: Urban Infrastructure, Transdisciplinary Dialogue and Sustainable Futures. In Mediterranean Mobilities. Institute for Advanced Studies, CeMoRe and Geography Department at Lancaster University, UK. eScholarID:128452
• Kaika, M. 2008. Re-Imag(in)ing the Local as Global: Autistic > architecture as the perfect neoliberal object. In Annual Meeting of Finnish Geographers. Tampere. eScholarID:128451
• Kaika, M. 2008. Researching Transnational Urbanization:the reinvention of London's City as an open global place. In Finnish Geographers’ Graduate School Intensive course. Tampere. eScholarID:128450
• Kaika, M. 2008. Urban Flows: Inhabiting Trans-nationalism in European Cities: an ESF Interdisciplinary Initiative for Urban Studies. In European Science Foundation: 1st European Conference for Collaborative Humanities Research (ECCHR) and 4th HERA Annual Conference. Maison de la Région Alsace, Strasbourg. eScholarID:128448
• Kaika, M. 2007. Fetishizing the modern city: the phantasmagoria of urban technological networks. In EUREX, European Seminar on Urban Transformation, Poverty, Spatial Segregation and Social Exclusion. eScholarID:2b1154
• Kaika, M. 2007. Iconic Building: the sublime object of Architecture. In Royal Holloway. eScholarID:2b1156
• Kaika, M. 2007. Re-imag(in)ing London and re-branding the City. In British Sociological Association Conference. eScholarID:2b1155
• Kaika, M. 2007. Re-inventing the Square Mile in the twenty-first century. In Tall Buildings in London Symposium. eScholarID:2b1153
• Kaika, M. 2006. Dams as symbols of Modernization: the case of the Marathon dam. In IBG Conference, London. eScholarID:2b1158
• Kaika, M. 2006. Iconic Architecture. In The Architecture Foundation. eScholarID:2b1157
• Kaika, M. 2006. Re-writing the City: the sublime object of Architecture. In AAG Annual Conference, Chicago. eScholarID:2b1161
• Kaika, M. 2006. The emergence of Iconic Architecture: the example of the City of London?. In School of Architecture, Aristoteleio University of Thessaloniki, Greece. eScholarID:2b1160
• Kaika, M. 2006. Trains or Agitators? The changing social role of architects as public intellectuals. In Forum on Contemporary Urbanism: New Challenges New Strategies. eScholarID:2b1159
• Kaika, M. 2005. Dams as symbols of modernisation: between geographical imagination and materiality. In King's College, London, Department of Geography. eScholarID:2b1162
• Kaika, M. 2005. European Science Foundation Urban Science Forward Look Programme. In Final Conference and Workshop Helsinki, Finland. eScholarID:2b1164
• Kaika, M. 2005. Interrogating the Geographies of the Familiar. In UCL, Department of Geography, Graduate Seminars. eScholarID:2b1165
• Kaika, M. 2005. The European Water Framework Directive: a new directive for a changing social economic and political environment. In International Symposium: "Sustainable Water Management: Comparative Perspectives from Australia, Europe and the United States. eScholarID:2b1163
• Kaika, M. 2004. European Science Foundation Urban Science Forward Look Programme. In Workshop on "Urban Risks: Inequalities and managing uncertainties". Part of the ESF Urban Science Forward Look Programme. Leipzig. eScholarID:2b1168
• Kaika, M. 2004. Re-Naturing Urbanization. In ESRC Workshop. Oxford. eScholarID:2b1169
• Kaika, M. 2004. The city and its patrons: 1950-2000. In Cornerstones conference, organised by Carnegie Mellon School of Architecture, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. eScholarID:2b1167
• Kaika, M. 2004. The implementation of the European Water Framework Directive. In 1st Symposium on the Implementation of the WFD: the European experience,Environment Council, and the University of Thessaloniki. eScholarID:2b1166
• Kaika, M. 2004. Urban Metabolism: between geographical imagination and materiality. In AAG Annual Conference. Philadelphia. eScholarID:2b1170
• Kaika, M. 2003. Changing the culture of water industry: the European water framework Directive and its impact on the privatised water sector. In Thames Water Seminar, St Antony's College, Oxford. eScholarID:2b1174
• Kaika, M. 2003. Making European Environmental Policy. In University of Thessaloniki, Department of Urban and Regional Planning. eScholarID:2b1175
• Kaika, M. 2003. Metabolising Cities Conference. In UCL Department of Geography and ESRC, London. eScholarID:2b1171
• Kaika, M. 2003. The power of lobbying: power struggles around European Environmental Policy. In Rethinking Radical Spatial Approaches 20th Seminar of the Aegean, Naxos, Greece. eScholarID:2b1173
• Kaika, M. 2003. Who's afraid of Modernism? Creating space for 'the other' in modern architecture. In School of Architecture, University of Thessaly, Greece. eScholarID:2b1172
• Kaika, M. 2002. Cinematography as an ideological apparatus: newsreels representations of fascist New Towns. In AAG Annual Conference. Los Angeles. eScholarID:2b1177
• Kaika, M. 2002. The European Water Framework Directive: facts and policy. In Oxford Brookes University. eScholarID:2b1176
• Kaika, M. 2002. Urban Political Ecology, Justice and Scale in Advanced Capitalist Countries. In AAG Annual Conference. Los Angeles. eScholarID:2b1178
• Kaika, M. 2002. Water for Europe: shifts in governance and the making of the European Water Framework Directive. In The Linacre Lectures 2002: Oxford. eScholarID:2b1179
• Kaika, M. 2001. Metabolised nature as the domestic uncanny: teasing out the materiality of the invisible city. In AAG Annual Conference, New York. eScholarID:2b1181
• Kaika, M. 2001. Pricing as a panacea for environmental protection? The case of asset privatisation of the water sector in the UK. In Conference on Water Pricing, European Environmental Bureau (EEB), Brussels. eScholarID:2b1180
• Kaika, M. 2001. The horrifying geographies of the familiar: technological networks as the urban and domestic uncanny. In RGS-IBG Annual Conference, Plymouth. eScholarID:2b1183
• Kaika, M. 2001. the invisible city. In AAG Annual conference, New York. eScholarID:2b1182
• Kaika, M. 2000. Metabolised nature as the urban and domestic uncanny. In London Group of historical geographers' seminar series on "Hidden Cities". eScholarID:2b1184
• Kaika, M. 2000. Modernising with aesthetics: the politics and culture of watering Athens through Hadrian's Aqueduct (1834-1870). In Linacre Seminar Series, Linacre College, Oxford. eScholarID:2b1186
• Kaika, M. 2000. Participation and Environmental policy design: the case of the EU Water Framework Directive. In Global Meeting of the Urban Environment Forum (UEF 2000); Cape Town, South Africa, 26-28 September 2000. Organisers: United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the United Nations Centre for Human Settlements (Habitat) and The Cape Metropolitan Council (. eScholarID:2b1185

Other

• Promethean landscapes of Modernity and contemporary practices" Invited Contribution to Conference "Mediterranean waters: Urban Infrastructure, Transdisciplinary Dialogue and Sustainable Futures". Institute for Advanced Studies, Lancaster University, Lancaster UK.