Selected academic publications

Books

Wakefield, S. (2025) Miami in the Anthropocene: Urban Resilience and Rising Seas (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press).

Wakefield, S. (2020) Anthropocene Back Loop: Experimentation in Unsafe Operating Space (London: Open Humanities Press).

Chandler, D., Grove, C., and Wakefield, S. eds. (2020) Resilience in the Anthropocene: Governance and Politics at the End of the World (Abingdon: Routledge).

Journal Articles

Wakefield, S. (2022) “Critical Urban Theory in the Anthropocene,” Urban Studies 59(5): 917–936.

Wakefield, S., Molinari, S., and Grove, K. (2022) “Crypto-Urban Statecraft: Post-Pandemic Urban Governance Experiments in Miami,” Urban Geography. 

Wakefield, S., Grove, K., and Chandler, D. 2021. “The Asymmetrical Anthropocene: Resilience and the Limits of Posthumanism.” cultural geographies, 9(3) 389-404.

Wakefield, S. (2021) “The Possibility of Islands in the Anthropocene,” Dialogues in Human Geography

Wakefield, S. (2020) “Making Nature into Infrastructure: The Construction of Oysters as a Risk Management Solution in New York City.” Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space. 3(3), pp. 761–785.

Wakefield, S. (2020) “Urban Resilience as Critique: Problematizing Infrastructure in Post-Sandy New York City.” Political Geography, 79

Wakefield, S. (2019) “Amphibious Architecture Beyond the Levee.Mobilities 4(3).

Wakefield, S. (2018) “Infrastructures of Liberal Life: From Modernity and Progress to Resilience and Ruins,” Geography Compass, 12(7).

Wakefield, S. (2018) “Inhabiting the Anthropocene Back Loop,” Resilience: International Policies, Practices, and Discourses, 6(1).

Wakefield, S. and Braun, B. (2014) “Governing the Resilient City,” Introduction to guest edited theme section “A New Apparatus: Technology, Government and the Resilient City,” in Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 32(1) 4 – 11.

Chapters

Rickards, L., Grove, K., Wakefield, S. 2022. “Innovation at the Limits of Social Change: Uncertainty and Design in the Anthropocene.” In: Barnett, C. and Ballard, R., eds., 2022. Handbook of Social Change. Abingdon: Routledge: 142-153.

Wakefield, S. 2021. “Experimental Governance in the Anthropocene.” In: Chandler, D., Müller, F., and Rothe, D., eds., 2021. International Relations in the Anthropocene: New Actors, New Agencies and New Approaches. London: Palgrave–Macmillan: 331-348.

Wakefield, S. 2020. “Life Beyond the Liberal One World World.” In: Wakefield, S., Grove, K., and Chandler, D., eds., 2020. Resilience in the Anthropocene: Governance and Politics at the End of the World. Abingdon: Routledge.

Wakefield, S. and Braun, B. (2019) “Oystertecture: Infrastructure, Profanation and the Sacred Figure of the Human,” Hetherington, K. (ed.) Infrastructure, Environment, and Life in the Anthropocene. Durham, Duke University Press.