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Handbook of Environmental Political Theory in the Anthropocene
This Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the transforming landscape of environmental political theory. Embracing both classical and marginalised approaches in the field, it demonstrates the central role of political theory in rethinking the strategies, discourses and imaginaries of the Anthropocene epoch.
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This Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the transforming landscape of environmental political theory. Embracing both classical and marginalised approaches in the field, it demonstrates the central role of political theory in rethinking the strategies, discourses and imaginaries of the Anthropocene epoch.
Expert contributing authors outline how the Anthropocene has triggered the reshaping of academic disciplines, the replacement of conventional categories, the emergence of novel ideas and the engagement with non-Western approaches. They interrogate and question the concept and diagnosis of the Anthropocene, critically evaluating its impact and presenting a range of different viewpoints on its role in socio-political analysis. The Handbook considers the future of the field and identifies challenging new research questions and topics. Ultimately, it examines how environmental political theory can provide hope and resources for political change in the face of a growing ecological crisis.
Presenting cutting-edge analyses, the Handbook of Environmental Political Theory in the Anthropocene is an essential resource for students and scholars of political science, sociology, environmental ethics, public policy and philosophy.
Expert contributing authors outline how the Anthropocene has triggered the reshaping of academic disciplines, the replacement of conventional categories, the emergence of novel ideas and the engagement with non-Western approaches. They interrogate and question the concept and diagnosis of the Anthropocene, critically evaluating its impact and presenting a range of different viewpoints on its role in socio-political analysis. The Handbook considers the future of the field and identifies challenging new research questions and topics. Ultimately, it examines how environmental political theory can provide hope and resources for political change in the face of a growing ecological crisis.
Presenting cutting-edge analyses, the Handbook of Environmental Political Theory in the Anthropocene is an essential resource for students and scholars of political science, sociology, environmental ethics, public policy and philosophy.
Critical Acclaim
‘An expansive, interdisciplinary collection exploring a broad range of critical approaches in Anthropocene studies. The diverse chapters offer both foundational and innovative interventions that span the humanities, social sciences, and the natural sciences (from political ecological theories of “nature” and “degrowth” to ecofeminist and eco-critical explorations and imaginaries of “posthumanism” and “decoloniality”). The Handbook of Environmental Political Theory in the Anthropocene, will be essential reading in multiple courses that aim to build productive conversations across the nature/culture disciplinary divides.’
– Giovanna Di Chiro, Swarthmore College, US
‘Machin and Wissenburg have brought together an impressive array of leading and rising scholars. The often-stellar individual chapters are organized thoughtfully to create a Handbook that is theoretically rich, nuanced, and reflexive about the insights and limitations of environmental political theory – and about the idea of the Anthropocene itself.’
– John M. Meyer, Cal Poly Humboldt, USA
‘This Handbook brings together some of the world’s leading and emerging environmental thinkers. The editors have done a difficult job well – in that they have ensured that the Handbook has a good representation of the growing number of topics, issues, and debates that exist and are emerging in the interdisciplinary field of environmental political theory. The Handbook of Environmental Political Theory in the Anthropocene is a field guide to thinking (and acting) on our increasingly turbulent planet, and the different perspectives on what are the roots causes of the crisis of climate and nature, how the costs of the crisis are unevenly and unjustly distributed, and what solutions or coping mechanisms can or should be mobilised. Essential reading.’
– John Barry, Ollscoil na Banríona Béal Feirste/Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland
– Giovanna Di Chiro, Swarthmore College, US
‘Machin and Wissenburg have brought together an impressive array of leading and rising scholars. The often-stellar individual chapters are organized thoughtfully to create a Handbook that is theoretically rich, nuanced, and reflexive about the insights and limitations of environmental political theory – and about the idea of the Anthropocene itself.’
– John M. Meyer, Cal Poly Humboldt, USA
‘This Handbook brings together some of the world’s leading and emerging environmental thinkers. The editors have done a difficult job well – in that they have ensured that the Handbook has a good representation of the growing number of topics, issues, and debates that exist and are emerging in the interdisciplinary field of environmental political theory. The Handbook of Environmental Political Theory in the Anthropocene is a field guide to thinking (and acting) on our increasingly turbulent planet, and the different perspectives on what are the roots causes of the crisis of climate and nature, how the costs of the crisis are unevenly and unjustly distributed, and what solutions or coping mechanisms can or should be mobilised. Essential reading.’
– John Barry, Ollscoil na Banríona Béal Feirste/Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland
Contents
Contents
1 Environmental political theory in the Anthropocene: an introduction 1
Amanda Machin and Marcel Wissenburg
PART I KEY CONCEPTS
2 Nature 10
Luigi Pellizzoni
3 Sustainability 19
Steve Vanderheiden
4 Environmental ethics 28
Marcello Di Paola
5 Justice 38
David Schlosberg
6 Democracy 48
Ayşem Mert
7 Citizenship in the Anthropocene 58
Andrew Dobson and Ángel Valencia Sáiz
8 Representation 68
Mihnea Tănăsescu
9 Colonial modernity in the anthroposalon 77
Andy Stirling
10 Crisis: Enjoying endtimes 89
Lucas Pohl and Erik Swyngedouw
11 Degrowth and limits 99
Giacomo D’Alisa and Onofrio Romano
PART II POLITICAL SCHOOLS AND APPROACHES
12 Political ecologism 110
Liza Griffin and George Revill
13 Ecomodernism 120
Rasmus Karlsson
14 Eco-socialism and the Anthropocene 129
Derek Wall
15 Green republicanism 138
Calum McGeown
16 Ecoanarchism 148
John P. Clark
17 Ecofeminist theory in and against the Anthropocene 157
Sherilyn MacGregor and Magdalena S. Rodekirchen
18 Eco-authoritarianism: new debates and changing premises 167
Ole Bruun
19 Populism in the anthropocene: democratic avenues ahead? 177
Jens Marquardt
20 Green liberalism 187
andiers H.G. Stephens
21 Far-right ecologism: revisiting ecofascism and violence 196
Balša Lubarda and Péter J. Bori
PART III LEVELS AND AGENTS
22 Green markets 207
David Yarrow
23 Environmental movements and environmental political theory in the Anthropocene 217
Clare Saunders
24 The Urbanocene: cities in the Anthropocene 227
Nir Barak and Avner de-Shalit
25 The state in the Anthropocene 235
Daniel Hausknost
26 Global sustainability governance 245
Philipp Pattberg, and Michael Davies-Venn
27 Cosmopolitanism in the Anthropocene 256
Manuel Arias-Maldonado
28 The human in the Anthropocene 264
Amy Linch
29 The posthuman 273
Erika Cudworth, Stephen Hobden and Alexander Thomas
PART IV CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES
30 Interdisciplinarity and the earth sciences: knowledge at the threshold 283
Nigel Clark and Bronislaw Szerszynski
31 Anthropocene as method: STS experiments with/in emerging paradigms 292
N. Bucky Stanton and Alison Kenner
32 Actor-network theory: five moments in eco-politics 302
Anders Blok and Casper Bruun Jensen
33 Post-politics and the Anthropocene: towards a post-foundational environmental political theory 312
Anneleen Kenis
34 Decolonial environmental political theory 322
Christine Winter
35 Indigenous knowledge and politics of recognition in the Colonialcene 331
Meg Parsons
36 Confucian Green Theory 341
Joel Jay Kassiola
37 Environmental conversationalism: a defence of the moral considerability of the ecosystem based on the notion of normative relationship 351
Jonathan O. Chimakonam
38 Ecocriticism: critical perspectives in the Anthropocene 361
Chitra Sankaran and Gayatri Thanu Pillai
39 Anthropocene imaginaries and the role of climate fiction 370
Sophia Hatzisavvidou
Bibliography 379
1 Environmental political theory in the Anthropocene: an introduction 1
Amanda Machin and Marcel Wissenburg
PART I KEY CONCEPTS
2 Nature 10
Luigi Pellizzoni
3 Sustainability 19
Steve Vanderheiden
4 Environmental ethics 28
Marcello Di Paola
5 Justice 38
David Schlosberg
6 Democracy 48
Ayşem Mert
7 Citizenship in the Anthropocene 58
Andrew Dobson and Ángel Valencia Sáiz
8 Representation 68
Mihnea Tănăsescu
9 Colonial modernity in the anthroposalon 77
Andy Stirling
10 Crisis: Enjoying endtimes 89
Lucas Pohl and Erik Swyngedouw
11 Degrowth and limits 99
Giacomo D’Alisa and Onofrio Romano
PART II POLITICAL SCHOOLS AND APPROACHES
12 Political ecologism 110
Liza Griffin and George Revill
13 Ecomodernism 120
Rasmus Karlsson
14 Eco-socialism and the Anthropocene 129
Derek Wall
15 Green republicanism 138
Calum McGeown
16 Ecoanarchism 148
John P. Clark
17 Ecofeminist theory in and against the Anthropocene 157
Sherilyn MacGregor and Magdalena S. Rodekirchen
18 Eco-authoritarianism: new debates and changing premises 167
Ole Bruun
19 Populism in the anthropocene: democratic avenues ahead? 177
Jens Marquardt
20 Green liberalism 187
andiers H.G. Stephens
21 Far-right ecologism: revisiting ecofascism and violence 196
Balša Lubarda and Péter J. Bori
PART III LEVELS AND AGENTS
22 Green markets 207
David Yarrow
23 Environmental movements and environmental political theory in the Anthropocene 217
Clare Saunders
24 The Urbanocene: cities in the Anthropocene 227
Nir Barak and Avner de-Shalit
25 The state in the Anthropocene 235
Daniel Hausknost
26 Global sustainability governance 245
Philipp Pattberg, and Michael Davies-Venn
27 Cosmopolitanism in the Anthropocene 256
Manuel Arias-Maldonado
28 The human in the Anthropocene 264
Amy Linch
29 The posthuman 273
Erika Cudworth, Stephen Hobden and Alexander Thomas
PART IV CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES
30 Interdisciplinarity and the earth sciences: knowledge at the threshold 283
Nigel Clark and Bronislaw Szerszynski
31 Anthropocene as method: STS experiments with/in emerging paradigms 292
N. Bucky Stanton and Alison Kenner
32 Actor-network theory: five moments in eco-politics 302
Anders Blok and Casper Bruun Jensen
33 Post-politics and the Anthropocene: towards a post-foundational environmental political theory 312
Anneleen Kenis
34 Decolonial environmental political theory 322
Christine Winter
35 Indigenous knowledge and politics of recognition in the Colonialcene 331
Meg Parsons
36 Confucian Green Theory 341
Joel Jay Kassiola
37 Environmental conversationalism: a defence of the moral considerability of the ecosystem based on the notion of normative relationship 351
Jonathan O. Chimakonam
38 Ecocriticism: critical perspectives in the Anthropocene 361
Chitra Sankaran and Gayatri Thanu Pillai
39 Anthropocene imaginaries and the role of climate fiction 370
Sophia Hatzisavvidou
Bibliography 379
