Dear GEP-ED, I am writing to share the announcement of our new book with Cambridge University Press:
"Anthropocene Encounters: New Directions in Green Political Thinking" 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. Edited by: Frank Biermann, Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands Eva Lövbrand, Linköpings Universitet, Sweden Contributors Manuel Arias-Maldonado, John Barry, Jeremy Baskin, Silke Beck, Frank Biermann, Anthony Burke, Noel Castree, Stefanie Fishel, Anne Fremaux, Victor Galaz, Eva Lövbrand, James Meadowcroft, Ayşem Mert, Alexandra Nikoleris, Johannes Stripple, Paul Tenngart, and Paul Wapner Cambridge University Press, 2019 Table of Contents 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: too fast, too slow? Victor Galaz 7. Democracy in the Anthropocene. Ayşem 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 URL: https://www.cambridge.org/nl/academic/subjects/earth-and-environmental-science/environmental-policy-economics-and-law/anthropocene-encounters-new-directions-green-political-thinking?format=PB -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gep-ed" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to gep-ed+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
