Handbook of Environmental Political Theory in the Anthropocene

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

‘The Handbook of Environmental Political Theory in the Anthropocene is a valuable and wide-ranging overview of the field, bringing together a diverse range of perspectives from established and emerging scholars.’

• Contents1 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 129Derek Wall15 Green republicanism 138Calum McGeown16 Ecoanarchism 148John P. Clark17 Ecofeminist theory in and against the Anthropocene 157Sherilyn MacGregor and Magdalena S. Rodekirchen18 Eco-authoritarianism: new debates and changing premises 167Ole Bruun19 Populism in the Anthropocene: democratic avenues ahead? 177Jens Marquardt20 Green liberalism 187Piers H.G. Stephens21 Far-right ecologism: revisiting ecofascism and violence 196Balša Lubarda and Péter J. BoriPART III LEVELS AND AGENTS22 Green markets 207David Yarrow23 Environmental movements and environmental political theory in the Anthropocene 217Clare Saunders24 The Urbanocene: cities in the Anthropocene 227Nir Barak and Avner de-Shalit25 The state in the Anthropocene 235Daniel Hausknost26 Global sustainability governance 245Philipp Pattberg and Michael Davies-Venn27 Cosmopolitanism in the Anthropocene 256Manuel Arias-Maldonado28 The human in the Anthropocene 264Amy Linch29 The posthuman 273Erika Cudworth, Stephen Hobden and Alexander Thomas PART IV CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES30 Interdisciplinarity and the earth sciences: knowledge at the threshold 283Nigel Clark and Bronislaw Szerszynski31 Anthropocene as method: STS experiments with/in emerging paradigms 292N. Bucky Stanton and Alison Kenner32 Actor-network theory: five moments in eco-politics 302Anders Blok and Casper Bruun Jensen33 Post-politics and the Anthropocene: towards a post-foundational environmental political theory 311Anneleen Kenis34 Decolonial environmental political theory 321Christine Winter35 Indigenous knowledge and politics of recognition in the Colonialcene 330Meg Parsons36 Confucian Green Theory 340Joel Jay Kassiola37 Environmental conversationalism: a defence of the moral considerability of the ecosystem based on the notion of normative relationship 350Jonathan O. Chimakonam38 Ecocriticism: critical perspectives in the Anthropocene 360Chitra Sankaran and Gayatri Thanu Pillai39 Anthropocene imaginaries and the role of climate fiction 369Sophia HatzisavvidouBibliography 378Index 457