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This book explores the interconnections between world politics and non-human nature to overcome the anthropocentric boundaries that characterize the field of international relations. By gathering contributions from various perspectives, ranging from post-humanism and ecological modernization, to new materialism and post-colonialism, it conceptualizes the embeddedness of world politics in non-human nature, and proposes a reorientation of political practice to better address the challenges posed by climate change and the deterioration of the Earth's ecosystems.
The book is divided into two main parts, the first of which addresses new ways of theoretically conceiving the relationship between non-human nature and world politics. In turn, the second presents empirical investigations into specific case studies, including studies on state actors and international organizations and bodies. Given its scope and the new perspectives it shares, this edited volume represents a uniquely valuable contribution to the field.
List of contents
Introduction.-Chapter1: Embracing non-human nature in world politics.-Part I: Theoretical investigations.- Chapter2: Encountering nature in global life.- Chapter3: The end of normal politics: assemblages, non-humans and international relations.- Chapter4: Across species and borders: political representation, ecological democracy and the non-human.- Chapter5: A quantum anthropocene? international relations between rupture and entanglement.- Chapter 6: Ecologies of globalization: mountain governance and multinatural planetary politics.- Chapter7: Becoming one with the other: how Amazonian indigenous ontologies can guide post-human politics and change human-nature relationships.- Chapter8: Conflicting temporalities and the ecomodernist vision of rewilding.- Chapter9. Elias in the Anthropocene: human nature, evolution and the politics of great acceleration.- Part II: Empirical investigations.- Chapter10: Anthropocentrisation and its discontens in Indonesia: indigenous communities, non-human nature, and Anthropocentric political-economic governance.- Chapter11: Ecological civilization: the political rhetoric of Marxism with Chinese characteristics.
About the author
Joana Castro Pereira is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Portuguese Institute of International Relations, NOVA University of Lisbon. Her current research focuses on the governance of climate change and biodiversity in the Amazon. Pereira has published in journals such as
Global Policy,
Water Alternatives,
Global Environmental Politics, and
Journal of Latin American Studies. She has also collaborated with the European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS), the EU-LAC Foundation, and the Global Challenges Foundation.
André Saramago is Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Faculty of Economics, University of Coimbra, and Online Learning and Research Associate with DiploFoundation (University of Malta). He holds a PhD from Aberystwyth University and is a researcher with the Orient Institute. Saramago's research interests are currently focused on Marxism, critical international theory, and East Asia studies. His research has been published in journals such as
International Relations,
Asian Survey, and
Human Figurations.
