Democracy in the Anthropocene

Erscheinungsjahr 2026
ISBN: 978-3-032-28854-7
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan

Buch, Englisch, 501 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 749 g

This open access volume bridges the so far rather disconnected debates on the crisis of democracy and the Anthropocene. The various, contradicting, but also entangled relations between democracy and the Anthropocene are the overarching theme. Across four sections, contributors probe the impasses and transformations of liberal modernity and navigate new political forms and democratic possibilities emerging in the Anthropocene: 1) crisis diagnoses, 2) conceptual reflections on the epistemic shifts of democratic politics in the Anthropocene, 3) concepts for governing in the Anthropocene and 4) (local) practices and innovations of democracy in the Anthropocene.

This book is an open access publication.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wiesner, Claudia

Scheunemann, Tom

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Zentralregierung
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Gesellschaftstheorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1.    Tom Scheunemann and Claudia Wiesner: Introduction: Why Democ-racy in the Anthropocene?.- Section I The State of Crisis: Democracy in the Anthropocene.- Chapter 2. Claudia Wiesner: Crisis, Polycrisis, Anthropocene. Democracy Under Pressure.- Chapter 3. Jessica Schmidt: Liberal Awakening and Critical Redemption: Map-ping the Crisis Discourse of Democracy in Anthropocenic Times.- Chapter 4.    Wolfgang Merkel and Claudia Wiesner: When Liberal Democracy Allows its Own Decline: Donald Trump and the Crisis of Democratic Liberalism.- Chapter 5.    Aristidis V. Agoglossakis Foley: The Death of the Democratic Na-tion? Anthropocene, Technocene, and the Concept of the Network State.- Chapter 6.    The Crisis of Liberalism and the Future of Progress. Rahel Jaeggi in conversation with Jan Groos.- Chapter 7.    Philip Dingeldey and Dirk Jörke: Towards a Strong Green Republi-canism? On the Crisis of Democracy in the Anthropocene.- Section II Politics and Democracy in the Anthropocene: Epistemic Shifts and Concepts.- Chapter 8.    Matthias Klemm: Anthropocene or Societocene? – Social Evolution, Climate Change and the Social Sciences.- Chapter 9.    Aysem Mert, Julia Feine, and Tatiana Sokolova: Eco-political Re-sponses to the Crisis of Democracy: A Critical Fantasy Studies Ap-proach to the Anthropocene.- Chapter 10.    Kari Palonen: The Anthropocene Language: A Sign of Politicisation.- Chapter 11.    David Chandler: Self-Governance after Representation: The Anthro-pocene and the Politicisation of Everyday Life.- Chapter 12.    Caroline von Taysen: Democracy in the Anthropocene – an Irresolv-able Dilemma?.- Chapter 13.    Tom Scheunemann: Under the Canopy – Seeking Refuge in the Shad-ows of Anthropocene Forests.- Section III Democracy and Governance Beyond Liberal Modernity: Con-cepts and Approaches.- Chapter 14.    Maximilian Lakitsch: Towards a Human-Non-Human Understanding of Political Community: Rediscovering Anthropocene Thinking at the Dawn of Political Modernity.- Chapter 15.    Julian Purrmann: Democracy in the Anthropocene: Toward More-than-Human Democratic Innovations.- Chapter 16.    Jan Groos: Alternative Environmentality – Three Propositions for Democratic Planning in the Anthropocene.- Chapter 17.    Niilo Kauppi and Pasi Heikkurinen: A Paradigm Shift in Democratic Governance? The OECD and the Governance of the Future in an An-ticipated New Geological Epoch.- Chapter 18.    Pol Bargués: Post-liberal and Illiberal Peace in the Anthropocene.- Chapter 19.    Petteri Repo, Mikhail Bogach, Ilona Kousa, Inês Campos, Päivi Timo-nen, and Mandira Halder: AI and the Anthropocene – LLMs as Dem-ocratic Knowledge Producers.- Section IV Local Practices of Democracy in the Anthropocene: Innova-tions, Challenges and Resistance.- Chapter 20.    Jan-Peter Voß and Hagen Schölzel: Gardening Democratic Practices.- Chapter 21.    Melisa Ross and Azucena Morán: Governing the Planetary? Demo-cratic Innovations in Latin America.- Chapter 22.    Nathaniel Umukoro: The Crisis of Democracy and Environmental Challenges in the Era of Anthropocene: Lessons from Nigeria’s Niger Delta.- Chapter 23.    Christiane Kuller: The Anthropocene in Contemporary History? To-wards an Agenda for Local Historical Research in the Age of Authori-tarian Regimes and their Aftermath.- Chapter 24.    Grounding the Anthropocene in Local Experience. German History and the Forests of Geisa. Manuela Henkel and Matthias Schorr in conversation with Tom Scheunemann and Claudia Wiesner.- Chapter 25.    Lina Bax: Conference Report: Social Contracts and Democracy in Times of the Anthropocene. Thinking Beyond Crisis.- Chapter 26.    Claudia Wiesner and Tom Scheunemann: Conclusion: Mission Im-possible? Takeaways from Thinking about Democracy in the Anthro-pocene.

Über Autor(innen)

Claudia Wiesner is Professor of Political Science at Fulda University of Applied Sciences, Germany, a member of the board of directors of the “Point Alpha Research Institute”, and adjunct Professor in Political Science at Jyväskylä University in Finland.

Tom Scheunemann is a research associate at Fulda University of Applied Sciences and a member of the Point Alpha Research Institute, Germany.