Rethinking the environment for the anthropocene: political theory and socionatural relations in the new geological epoch

Abstract

The return of nature in the anthropocene / Anne Fremaux -- Environmental political theory and the material turn : a critical assessment / Luigi Pellizzoni -- Nature in the anthropocene : political science meets ecology debates / Susan Baker -- Political theory in the anthropocene / John Meyer -- The ecological circumstances of the circumstances of politics / Zev Trachtenberg -- What cities can teach us about environmental political theory in the anthropocene / Nir Barak -- Anthropocene : the emergence of the figure of "governator" / Yohan Ariffin -- Real anthropocene politics / Simon Hailwood -- Towards a good anthropocene? / Manuel Arias-Maldonado -- Geo-engineering : a curse or a blessing? / Marcel Wissenburg -- Sustainability governance in a democratic anthropocene : the realm of the arts as a foundation for deliberative citizen engagement / Marit Hammond and Hugh Ward -- Critical design, hybrid labor, just transitions : moving beyond technocratic ecomodernisms and the it's-too-late-o-cene / Damian White -- Afterword / John Barry