Handbook of critical environmental politics

Introduction: What is critical environmental politics? / Luigi Pellizzoni, Emanuele Leonardi and Viviana Asara -- Part I. Theoretical strands -- 1. Critical theory: Praxis and emancipation beyond the mastery of nature / Christoph Görg -- 2. Decolonial ecologies: Beyond environmentalism / Malcom Ferdinand -- 3. Feminisms and the environment / Corinna Dengler and Birte Strunk -- 4. Marxism and ecology: An ongoing debate / Emanuele Leonardi and Salvo Torre -- Part II. Contested notions -- 5. Anthropocene / Marija Brajdić Vuković and Mladen Domazet -- 6. Buen vivir / Philipp Altmann -- 7. Degrowth / Ekaterina Chertkovskaya -- 8. Limits / Erik Gómez-Baggethun -- 9. Sustainability: Buying time for consumer capitalism / Ingolfur Blühdorn -- Part III. Key issues -- 10. Agrarian development and food security: Ecology, labour and crises / Maura Benegiamo -- 11. Bioeconomies / Kean Birch -- 12. Cities and the environment / Hug March -- 13. Climate justice and global politics / Stefan Gaarsmand Jacobsen and Oliver Hunt -- 14. The common(s) / Angelos Varvarousis -- 15. The cultural political economy of research and innovation: Meeting the problem of growth in the anthropocene / David Tyfield -- 16. Disasters and catastrophes / Laura Centemeri and Isabella Tomassi -- 17. Energy politics and energy transition / Natalia Magnani, Dario Minervini and Ivano Scotti -- 18. Expertise, lay/local knowledge and the environment / Rolf Lidskog and Monika Berg -- 19. Extractivism and neo-extractivism / Maristella Svampa -- 20. Religion and ecology / Jens Koehrsen -- 21. Social metabolism / Dario Padovan, Osman Arrobbio and Alessandro Sciullo -- 22. Technological fixes: Nonknowledge transfer and the risk of ignorance / Matthias Gross -- 23. The values of nature / Clive L. Spash and Tone Smith -- Part IV. Governance -- 24. Democracy and democratisation / Marit Hammond -- 25. Environmental violence / Gloria Pessina -- 26. Environment-related human mobility / Eleonora Guadagno -- 27. Financialisation of nature / Tone Smith -- 28. Fossil fuels and state-industry relations: A case study in environmental non-compliance / Edwin A. Edou, Debra J. Davidson and Sydney Karbonik -- 29. Global environmental governance and the state / Alina Brad, Ulrich Brand and Etienne Schneider -- 30. Just transition: A conflict transformation approach / Damian McIlroy, Seán Brennan and John Barry -- 31. Sustainable welfare: Urban areas and transformational action / Kajsa Emilsson and Max Koch -- Part V. Mobilizations -- 32. Climate change consensus: A depoliticized deadlock / Erik Swyngedouw -- 33. Ecological mobilizations in the global south / Pallav Das -- 34. Engaging the everyday: Sustainability, practices, politics / Alice Dal Gobbo -- 35. Environmental movements / Viviana Asara -- 36. More-than-social movements: Politics of matter, autonomy, alterontologies / Andrea Ghelfi and Dimitris Papadopoulos -- Part VI. New directions -- 37. Decolonising environmental politics / Patrick Bresnihan and Naomi Millner -- 38. Digitalisation as promissory infrastructure for sustainability / Ingmar Lippert -- 39. Eco-feminism and the commons: The feminization of resistance in Latin America / Silvia Federici -- 40. Geopower: Genealogies, territories and politics / Miriam Tola -- 41. Post-work and ecology / Luigi Pellizzoni -- 42. Transformative innovation / Andreas Novy, Nathan Barlow and Julia Fankhauser -- Index.

This timely Handbook offers a comprehensive outlook on global environmental politics, providing readers with an up-to-date view of a field of ever-increasing academic and public significance. Its critical perspective interrogates what is taken for granted in current institutions and social and power relations, highlighting the issues preventing meaningful change in the relationship between human societies and their biophysical underpinnings. Featuring contributions from over 60 established and emerging international scholars, the Handbook is organized into six thematic sections. It addresses theoretical approaches, contested notions, key issues, governance processes, mobilizations and emergent directions of inquiry, presenting a vital contemporary analysis of the major social science and political ecology debates over environmental questions. Scholars and students in the social sciences, in particular those studying politics and public policy, with an interest in the environment and climate change will find this Handbook to be essential reading. It will also be useful to academics in other disciplines related to ecology and environmental politics, as well as politicians and practitioners involved in green transition policies