Research Catalog

Title

Politics and the Anthropocene / Duncan Kelly.

Author

Kelly, Duncan

Publication

Cambridge, UK ; Medford, MA : Polity Press, 2019.

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Description

vii, 152 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

"The Anthropocene has become central to understanding the intimate connections between human life and the natural environment, but it has fractured our sense of time and possibility. What implications does that fracturing have for how we should think about politics in these new times? In this cutting-edge intervention, Duncan Kelly considers how this new geological era could shape our future by engaging with the recent past of our political thinking. If politics remains a short-term affair governed by electoral cycles, could an Anthropocenic sense of time, value and prosperity be built into it, altering long-established views about abundance, energy and growth? Is the Anthropocene so disruptive that it is no more than a harbinger of ecological doom, or can modern politics adapt by rethinking older debates about states, territories, and populations? Kelly rejects both pessimistic fatalism about humanity's demise, and an optimistic fatalism that makes the Anthropocene into a problem too big for politics, best left to the market or technology to solve. His skilful defence of the potential for democratic politics to negotiate this challenge is an indispensable guide to the ideas that matter most to understanding this epochal transformation." --

Subject

• Political science > Anthropological aspects
• Human ecology > Political aspects
• Nature > Effect of human beings on > Political aspects
• Democracy and environmentalism

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Timings -- Ecological inequalities -- Limiting growth? -- Ecological debts -- Population futures -- Value.

Call Number

JFD 20-1142

ISBN

• 9781509534197
• 1509534199
• 9781509534203
• 1509534202

LCCN

• 2019004026
• 40029483770

OCLC

1080647712

Author

Kelly, Duncan, author.

Title

Politics and the Anthropocene / Duncan Kelly.

Publisher

Cambridge, UK ; Medford, MA : Polity Press, 2019.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Form:

Online version: Kelly, Duncan, author. Politics and the anthropocene. Cambridge, UK ; Medford, MA, USA : Polity Press, [2019] 9781509534210 (DLC) 2019980133

Other Standard Identifier

40029483770

Research Call Number

JFD 20-1142