Anthropocene encounters : new directions in green political thinking / edited by Frank Biermann, Eva Lövbrand.

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Earth system governance.
Other Authors: Biermann, Frank, 1967- (Editor)
Lövbrand, Eva (Editor)
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2019.
Series:Earth system governance.
Subjects:
Human ecology > Political aspects.
Nature > Effect of human beings on > Political aspects.
Green movement > Political aspects.
Physical Description:xiv, 246 pages ; 26 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Encountering the "anthropocene": setting the scene
  • The conceptual politics of the anthropocene: science, philosophy and culture
  • The "anthropocene" in global change science: expertise, the earth, and the future of humanity
  • The "anthropocene" in philosophy: the neo-material turn and the question of nature
  • The "anthropocene" in popular culture: narrating human agency, force and our place on earth
  • Key concepts and the anthropocene: a reconsideration
  • Power, world politics and thing-systems in the anthropocene
  • Time and politics in the anthropocene: too fast, too slow?
  • Democracy in the anthropocene: a new scale
  • Global justice and the anthropocene: reproducing a development story
  • The practices of political study in the anthropocene
  • The "good anthropocene" and green political theory: rethinking environmentalism, resisting ecomodernism
  • Co-producing knowledge and politics of the anthropocene: the case of the future earth program
  • The ethics of political research in the anthropocene
  • Epilogue: continuity and change in the anthropocene