Trajectories in Environmental Politics

Graeme Hayes, Sikina Jinnah, Prakash Kashwan, David M. Konisky, Sherilyn Macgregor, John M. Meyer, Anthony R. Zito, Graeme Hayes, Sikina Jinnah, Prakash Kashwan, David M. Konisky, Sherilyn Macgregor, John M. Meyer, Anthony R. Zito

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN: 9781032100357
• eBook ISBN: 9781000552232
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Politics
• Index: Politics & International Relations

This book explores the dominant framings and paradigms of environmental politics, the relationship between academic analysis and environmental politics, and reflects on the first thirty years of the journal, Environmental Politics.

The book has two purposes. The first is to identify and discuss the key themes that have driven scholarship in the field of environmental politics over the last three decades, and to highlight how this has also led to oversights and silences, and the marginalisation of important forms of analysis and thought. As several chapters in the book explore, problem-solving frameworks have increasingly taken away space from more radical systemic challenge and critique, as the key themes of environmental politics have become ever more central to the field of politics as a whole – and as our understandings of social and environmental crisis become ever clearer and more urgent. The second purpose of the volume is to map out a series of new and developing agendas for environmental politics.

The chapters in this volume focus foremost on questions of justice, materiality, and power. Discussing state violence, multispecies justice, epistemic injustice, the circular economy, NGOs, parties, green transition, and urban climate governance, they call above all for greater attention to intersectionality and interdisciplinarity, and for centering key insights about power relations and socio-economic inequalities into increasingly widespread, yet also often depoliticised, topics in the study of environmental politics.

The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Environmental Politics.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-Title Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Citation Information
• Notes on Contributors
• Introduction: Trajectories in environmental politics
• 1 Continuities and changes; voices and silences: a critical analysis of the first three decades of scholarship in Environmental Politics
• 2 Making matter great again? Ecofeminism, new materialism and the everyday turn in environmental politics
• 3 The future of ‘environmental’ policy in the Anthropocene: time for a paradigm shift
• 4 Nature, limits and form-of-life
• 5 New directions in environmental justice studies: examining the state and violence
• 6 Multispecies justice: theories, challenges, and a research agenda for environmental politics
• 7 The knowledge politics of climate change loss and damage across scales of governance
• 8 The limits of the loops: critical environmental politics and the Circular Economy
• 9 When do environmental NGOs work? A test of the conditional effectiveness of environmental advocacy
• 10 What’s different about the environment? Environmental INGOs in comparative perspective
• 11 Right-wing populist parties and environmental politics: insights from the Austrian Freedom Party’s support for the glyphosate ban
• 12 Greening states and societies: from transitions to great transformations
• 13 Climate changed urban futures: environmental politics in the anthropocene city
• 14 Imagination and critique in environmental politics
• Index