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Futures: Imagining Socioecological Transformation brings together leading scholars to explore how we might know, enact, and struggle for, the conjoined social and ecological transformations we need to achieve just and sustainable futures. The question of transformation, and how it might be achieved, is explored across a variety of topics and geographical sites, and through heterodox analytical and theoretical approaches, in a collective effort to move beyond a form of critique that hands down judgements, to one that brings new ideas and new possibilities to life. Chapters are lively and original engagements with concrete situations that sparkle with creativity. Together, they add up to an impressive study of how to live, and what to struggle for, in the complex socioecological landscapes of the Anthropocene. This book was previously published as a special issue of the Annals of the Association of American Geographers.

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Author:   Bruce Willems-Braun (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781138393004

ISBN 10:   1138393002
Pages:   220
Publication Date:   03 January 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1. Futures: Imagining Socioecological Transformation—An Introduction 2. The Future of Environmental Expertise 3. Knowing Climate Change, Embodying Climate Praxis: Experiential Knowledge in Southern Appalachia 4. Temporalities in Adaptation to Sea-Level Rise 5. Translating Climate Change: Adaptation, Resilience, and Climate Politics in Nunavut, Canada 6. Environmental Politics After Nature: Conflicting Socioecological Futures 7. The Place and Time of the Political in Urban Political Ecology: Contested Imaginations of a River’s Future 8. Toward an Interim Politics of Resourcefulness for the Anthropocene 9. Climate Change and the Adaptation of the Political 10. A Manifesto for Abundant Futures 11. The Art of Socioecological Transformation 12. These Overheating Worlds 13. When Horses Won’t Eat: Apocalypse and the Anthropocene 14. Imaginaries of Hope: The Utopianism of Degrowth 15. On the Possibilities of a Charming Anthropocene 16. Banking Spatially on the Future: Capital Switching, Infrastructure, and the Ecological Fix 17. Biomimetic Futures: Life, Death, and the Enclosure of a More-Than-Human Intellect 18. Agro-Ecology and Food Sovereignty Movements in Chile: Sociospatial Practices for Alternative Peasant Futures 19. School Gardens as Sites for Forging Progressive Socioecological Futures 20. From Incremental Change to Radical Disjuncture: Rethinking Everyday Household Sustainability Practices as Survival Skills 21. Transforming Household Consumption: From Backcasting to HomeLabs Experiments

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Bruce Braun is Professor of Geography at the University of Minnesota and a specialist in Environmental Thought and Politics. Current research includes Geosocial formations, green urbanism and apparatuses of government. His books include　The Intemperate Rainforest: Nature, Culture and Power on Canada's West Coast,　Political Matter: Technoscience, Democracy and Public Life, and Remaking Reality: Nature at the Millennium.　

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