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Author:   Simone M. Müller ,  Matthias Schmidt ,  Kirsten Twelbeck
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
ISBN:  

9781032627977

ISBN 10:   1032627972
Pages:   254
Publication Date:   21 May 2026
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
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Table of Contents

Introduction Part 1: Conceptual Facets 1. Ecological Transformation and the Implications of Spatial Scale 2. Climate Solidarity, Time, and Ambivalence: On a New Term and Its Historical Legacy 3. Transformation and/of ‘Colonial Tropes.’ Latin American Narrative Palimpsests 4. Interactions of Efficiency, Consistency, and Sufficiency across Levels: Assessing Innovation Tensions through the Lens of Paradox Theory 5. Toxic Commons and the Politics of Ambivalence: Re-imagining Toxic Legacy Sites Part 2: Ambivalences in Practice 6. In Praise of Ambivalence: Reflections on Experiences of Pollution and Remediation 7. Global Waste: On the Ambivalence of Wealth, Health, and Contradictory Development Models 8. Farming the Wind: Aeolian Politics and the Sacred Desertscapes (Orans) of Rajasthan 9. Global South Ambivalences of Transformation? Literature, Extractive Capitalism, and Literary Militancy in West Africa 10. Mining for a Low-Carbon Economy? Articulations by the Mexican Corporate Sector 11. Integrating Labor, Environment, and Climate? (Dis)connections in the Spanish and Portuguese Energy Decarbonizations 12. Bioplastics Versus Conventional Plastics: An Analysis from a Sociological, Ethical, and Educational Perspective 13. Against all Odds: Managing Ambivalence in Philippe Squarzoni’s Graphic Novel Climate Changed Concluding Remarks and Survey of the Contributions

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Simone M. Müller is DFG Heisenberg Professor of Global Environmental History and Environmental Humanities at the University of Augsburg, Germany. Matthias Schmidt is Professor of Human Geography and Transformation Research at the University of Augsburg, Germany. Kirsten Twelbeck is an American Studies scholar and coordinates the international doctoral program ReThinking Environment, a cooperation between the University of Augsburg and Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany.

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