Anthropocene Encounters: New Directions in Green Political Thinking (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Biermann, Frank

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Februar 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108633338
• Artikelnr.: 57073451

Inhaltsangabe

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 Ay¿em 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.