Handbook of Critical Environmental Politics

Edited by Luigi Pellizzoni, Full Professor, Department of Political Sciences, University of Pisa, Emanuele Leonardi, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Business Law, University of Bologna and Viviana Asara, Assistant Professor, Department of Human Studies, University of Ferrara, Italy

‘This terrific new Handbook is “critical” in multiple senses. First, it is critical of the tired and inadequate politics of global environmental summitry. Second, the established and emerging European scholars collected here demonstrate the rich and varied insights that a critical environmental politics can offer in the face of our multi-dimensional climate crisis. And finally, it is critical to the work of envisioning, strategizing, and building a more just future.’

• Contents:Introduction: what is critical environmental politics? 1Luigi Pellizzoni, Emanuele Leonardi and Viviana AsaraPART I THEORETICAL STRANDS1 Critical theory: praxis and emancipation beyond the mastery of nature 23Christoph Görg2 Decolonial ecologies: beyond environmentalism 40Malcom Ferdinand3 Feminisms and the environment 58Corinna Dengler and Birte Strunk4 Marxism and ecology: an ongoing debate 71Emanuele Leonardi and Salvo TorrePART II CONTESTED NOTIONS5 Anthropocene 91Marija Brajdić Vuković and Mladen Domazet6 Buen Vivir 104Philipp Altmann7 Degrowth 116Ekaterina Chertkovskaya8 Limits 129Erik Gómez-Baggethun9 Sustainability: buying time for consumer capitalism 141Ingolfur BlühdornPART III KEY ISSUES10 Agrarian development and food security: ecology, labour and crises 157Maura Benegiamo11 Bioeconomies 170Kean Birch12 Cities and the environment 181Hug March13 Climate justice and global politics 192Stefan Gaarsmand Jacobsen and Oliver Hunt14 The Common(s) 206Angelos Varvarousis15 The cultural political economy of research and innovation: meeting theproblem of growth in the Anthropocene 217David Tyfield16 Disasters and catastrophes 232Laura Centemeri and Isabella Tomassi17 Energy politics and energy transition 245Natalia Magnani, Dario Minervini and Ivano Scotti18 Expertise, lay/local knowledge and the environment 257Rolf Lidskog and Monika Berg19 Extractivism and neo-extractivism 270Maristella Svampa20 Religion and ecology 282Jens Koehrsen21 Social metabolism 295Dario Padovan, Osman Arrobbio and Alessandro Sciullo22 Technological fixes: nonknowledge transfer and the risk of ignorance 308Matthias Gross23 The values of Nature 318Clive L. Spash and Tone SmithPART IV GOVERNANCE24 Democracy and democratisation 333Marit Hammond25 Environmental violence 347Gloria Pessina26 Environment-related human mobility 362Eleonora Guadagno27 Financialisation of nature 374Tone Smith28 Fossil fuels and state–industry relations: a case study in environmentalnon-compliance 388Edwin A. Edou, Debra J. Davidson and Sydney Karbonik29 Global environmental governance and the state 402Alina Brad, Ulrich Brand and Etienne Schneider30 Just transition: a conflict transformation approach 416Damian McIlroy, Seán Brennan and John Barry31 Sustainable welfare: urban areas and transformational action 431Kajsa Emilsson and Max KochPART V MOBILIZATIONS32 Climate change consensus: a depoliticized deadlock 443Erik Swyngedouw33 Ecological mobilizations in the Global South 456Pallav Das34 Engaging the everyday: sustainability, practices, politics 468Alice Dal Gobbo35 Environmental movements 483Viviana Asara36 More-than-social movements: politics of matter, autonomy, alterontologies 505Andrea Ghelfi and Dimitris PapadopoulosPART VI NEW DIRECTIONS37 Decolonising environmental politics 521Patrick Bresnihan and Naomi Millner38 Digitalisation as promissory infrastructure for sustainability 540Ingmar Lippert39 Eco-feminism and the commons: the Feminization of Resistance inLatin America 554Silvia Federici40 Geopower: genealogies, territories and politics 564Miriam Tola41 Post-work and ecology 577Luigi Pellizzoni42 Transformative innovation 593Andreas Novy, Nathan Barlow and Julia FankhauserIndex