Anthropocene Encounters: New Directions in Green Political Thinking
Anthropocene Encounters: New Directions in Green Political Thinking
Eva Lövbrand, Linköpings Universitet, Sweden
Coined barely two decades ago, the Anthropocene has become one of the most influential and controversial terms in environmental policy. Yet it remains an ambivalent and contested formulation, giving rise to a multitude of unexpected, and often uncomfortable, conversations. This book traces in detail a broad variety of such 'Anthropocene encounters': in science, philosophy and literary fiction. It asks what it means to 'think green' in a time when nature no longer offers a stable backdrop to political analysis. Do familiar political categories and concepts, such as democracy, justice, power and time, hold when confronted with a world radically transformed by humans? The book responds by inviting more radical political thought, plural forms of engagement, and extended ethical commitments, making it a fascinating and timely volume for graduate students and researchers working in earth system governance, environmental politics and studies of the Anthropocene. This is one of a series of publications associated with the Earth System Governance Project. For more publications, see www.cambridge.org/earth-system-governance.
- Tackling uncomfortable questions, this book explores multiple perspectives to enable critical conversations regarding environmental politics
- Chapters of this highly interdisciplinary volume cover a broad variety of 'Anthropocene encounters'”: in science, philosophy and literary fiction
- Draws on research carried out as part of the Earth System Governance Project and is the first of a mini-series of books linked to the 10-year anniversary of the programme
Reviews & endorsements
'… by discussing how the Anthropocene relates to contemporary political concepts such as democracy, power, and time, this collection opens up to multifaceted trajectories taking into consideration pluralist and critical perspectives.' L. A. Reisch and F. C. Doebbe, Journal of Consumer Policy
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January 2019Adobe eBook Reader
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Table of Contents
- List of figures
- List of contributors
- Acknowledgements
- 1. Encountering the 'Anthropocene': setting the scene Frank Biermann and Eva Lövbrand
- Part I. The Conceptual Politics of the Anthropocene: Science, Philosophy, and Culture:
- 2. The 'Anthropocene' in global change science: expertise, the Earth, and the future of humanity Noel Castree
- 3. The 'Anthropocene' in philosophy: the neo-material Turn and the question of nature Manuel Arias-Maldonado
- 4. The 'Anthropocene' in popular culture: narrating human agency, force and our place on Earth Alexandra Nikoleris, Johannes Stripple and Paul Tenngart
- Part II. Key Concepts and the Anthropocene: A Reconsideration:
- 5. Power, world politics and thing-systems in the Anthropocene Anthony Burke and Stefanie Fishel
- 6. Time and politics in the Anthropocene: to fast, too slow? Victor Galaz
- 7. Democracy in the Anthropocene AyÅŸem Mert
- 8. Global justice and the Anthropocene: reproducing a development story Jeremy Baskin
- Part III. The Practices of Political Study in the Anthropocene:
- 9. The 'Good Anthropocene' and green political theory: rethinking environmentalism, resisting ecomodernism Anne Fremaux and John Barry
- 10. Co-producing knowledge and politics of the Anthropocene: the case of the future Earth program Silke Beck
- 11. The ethics of political research in the Anthropocene Paul Wapner
- 12. Epilogue: continuity and change in the Anthropocene James Meadowcroft
- Index.
