Neil Brenner is Lucy Flower Professor of Urban Sociology in the Department of Sociology and Committee on Environment, Geography and Urbanization (CEGU) at the University of Chicago. His writing and teaching focus on the theoretical, conceptual, and methodological dimensions of urban questions, and on the challenges of reinventing our approach to urbanization in relation to the crises, contradictions, and struggles of our time. Brenner’s books include New Urban Spaces: Urban Theory and the Scale Question (Oxford, 2019), Critique of Urbanization: Selected Essays (Bauwelt Fundamente, 2016), and New State Spaces: Urban Governance and the Rescaling of Statehood (Oxford University Press, 2004), as well as, among other edited collections, Implosions/Explosions: Towards a Study of Planetary Urbanization (Jovis, 2014). Brenner’s current work is focused on the question of how “hinterlands”—the non-city territories and environments that support urban life—are being remade under contemporary global capitalism and in relation to proliferating climate and nature emergencies.