Political ecologies of a waste incinerator in Turin, Italy: Capital circulation and the production of urban natures

The article focuses on the urban political ecology of the Gerbido waste incinerator in Turin, Italy. The analysis focuses on the relations between spaces of profitability, economic flows, capital fix and the production of urban natures. The case study allows a discussion on the hybrid nature of the processes of capital circulation and production of urban natures, emphasising how waste incineration plants generate social and environmental injustices regarding the production, simultaneously of social subjects and urban spaces benefitting from environmental policies, as well as marginal spaces and marginal subjects whose everyday living space has been modified without listening to their voices.