Daniel Hausknost is Assistant Professor in Politics at the Institute of Social Change and Sustainability at the Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria.Marit Hammond is Lecturer in Politics at the School of Social, Political and Global Studies, Keele University, UK.

• PrefaceMarit Hammond and Daniel HausknostIntroductionDaniel Hausknost and Marit Hammond1. The environmental state and the glass ceiling of transformationDaniel Hausknost2. The legitimation crisis of democracy: emancipatory politics, the environmental state and the glass ceiling to socio-ecological transformationIngolfur Blühdorn3. The ‘glass ceiling’ of the environmental state and the social denial of mortalityRichard McNeill Douglas4. The environmental state between pre-emption and inoperosityLuigi Pellizzoni5. Inventing the environmental state: neoliberal common sense and the limits to transformationSophia Hatzisavvidou6. The state in the transformation to a sustainable postgrowth economyMax Koch7. Potential for a radical policy-shift? The acceptability of strong sustainable consumption governance among elitesSanna Ahvenharju8. Democracy, disagreement, disruption: agonism and the environmental stateAmanda Machin9. Sustainability as a cultural transformation: the role of deliberative democracyMarit Hammond

Daniel Hausknost is Assistant Professor in Politics at the Institute of Social Change and Sustainability at the Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria.Marit Hammond is Lecturer in Politics at the School of Social, Political and Global Studies, Keele University, UK.

• PrefaceMarit Hammond and Daniel HausknostIntroductionDaniel Hausknost and Marit Hammond1. The environmental state and the glass ceiling of transformationDaniel Hausknost2. The legitimation crisis of democracy: emancipatory politics, the environmental state and the glass ceiling to socio-ecological transformationIngolfur Blühdorn3. The ‘glass ceiling’ of the environmental state and the social denial of mortalityRichard McNeill Douglas4. The environmental state between pre-emption and inoperosityLuigi Pellizzoni5. Inventing the environmental state: neoliberal common sense and the limits to transformationSophia Hatzisavvidou6. The state in the transformation to a sustainable postgrowth economyMax Koch7. Potential for a radical policy-shift? The acceptability of strong sustainable consumption governance among elitesSanna Ahvenharju8. Democracy, disagreement, disruption: agonism and the environmental stateAmanda Machin9. Sustainability as a cultural transformation: the role of deliberative democracyMarit Hammond

Daniel Hausknost is Assistant Professor in Politics at the Institute of Social Change and Sustainability at the Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria.Marit Hammond is Lecturer in Politics at the School of Social, Political and Global Studies, Keele University, UK.

• PrefaceMarit Hammond and Daniel HausknostIntroductionDaniel Hausknost and Marit Hammond1. The environmental state and the glass ceiling of transformationDaniel Hausknost2. The legitimation crisis of democracy: emancipatory politics, the environmental state and the glass ceiling to socio-ecological transformationIngolfur Blühdorn3. The ‘glass ceiling’ of the environmental state and the social denial of mortalityRichard McNeill Douglas4. The environmental state between pre-emption and inoperosityLuigi Pellizzoni5. Inventing the environmental state: neoliberal common sense and the limits to transformationSophia Hatzisavvidou6. The state in the transformation to a sustainable postgrowth economyMax Koch7. Potential for a radical policy-shift? The acceptability of strong sustainable consumption governance among elitesSanna Ahvenharju8. Democracy, disagreement, disruption: agonism and the environmental stateAmanda Machin9. Sustainability as a cultural transformation: the role of deliberative democracyMarit Hammond