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. 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.

Table of 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 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 Ecosocialism 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 Piers 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 311 Anneleen Kenis 34 Decolonial environmental political theory 321 Christine Winter 35 Indigenous knowledge and politics of recognition in the Colonialcene 330 Meg Parsons 36 Confucian Green Theory 340 Joel Jay Kassiola 37 Environmental conversationalism: a defence of the moral considerability of the ecosystem based on the notion of normative relationship 350 Jonathan O. Chimakonam 38 Ecocriticism: critical perspectives in the Anthropocene 360 Chitra Sankaran and Gayatri Thanu Pillai 39 Anthropocene imaginaries and the role of climate fiction 369 Sophia Hatzisavvidou Bibliography 378 Index 457

About the Author :
Edited by Amanda Machin, Professor of Political Sociology, Department of Sociology and Social Work, University of Agder, Norway and Marcel Wissenburg, Professor of Political Theory, Department of Political Science, Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands

Review :
‘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.’ ‘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 root 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.’