New Earth Politics

Essays from the Anthropocene

Sikina Jinnah, Frank Biermann, Oran R. Young

• Publisher: The MIT Press
• Year: 2016
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• eBook ISBN:
  9780262332125
• Subtopic: Environment & Energy Policy
• Index: Politics & International Relations

Humanity's collective impact on the Earth is vast. The rate and scale of human-driven environmental destruction is quickly outstripping our political and social capacities for managing it. We are in effect creating an Earth 2.0 on which the human signature is everywhere, a "new earth" in desperate need of humane and insightful guidance. In this volume, prominent scholars and practitioners in the field of global environmental politics consider the ecological and political realities of life on the new earth, and probe the field's deepest and most enduring questions at a time of increasing environmental stress. Arranged in complementary pairs, the essays in this volume include reflections on environmental pedagogy, analysis of new geopolitical realities, reflections on the power of social movements and international institutions, and calls for more compelling narratives to promote environmental action.

At the heart of the volume is sustained attention to the role of traditional scholarly activities in a world confronting environmental disaster. Some contributors make the case that it is the scholar's role to provide activists with the necessary knowledge and tools; others argue for more direct engagement and political action. All the contributors confront the overriding question: What is the best use of their individual and combined energies, given the dire environmental reality?

Contributors
Erik Assadourian, Frank Biermann, Wil Burns, Ken Conca, Peter Dauvergne, Daniel Deudney, Navroz Dubash, Richard Falk, Joyeeta Gupta, Maria Ivanova, Peter Jacques, Sikina Jinnah, Karen T. Litfin, Michael F. Maniates, Elizabeth Mendenhall, Simon Nicholson, Kate O'Neill, Judith Shapiro, Paul Wapner, Oran R. Young

Table of contents

• Cover
• Series page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• Series Foreword
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: Living on a New Earth
• Section 1 Causes of the New Earth
• Section 2 Scholarship as Engagement
• Section 3 Pedagogies of Hope
• Section 4 New Earth Institutions
• Section 5 Social Movements and Civil Society
• Section 6 New Earth Geopolitics
• Section 7 Climate Change: The New Earth’s Defining Problem
• Section 8 Narrative Frames for Living on a New Earth
• Epilogue: Politics for a New Earth: Governing in the “Anthropocene”
• Contributors
• Index