Overview

Post-Carbon Futures: Imagining (and Enacting) New Worlds through Transition Studies explores the multitude of possibilities for conceiving and creating fulfilling post-carbon ways of life. Offering diverse perspectives and abundant empirical examples, this robust volume sheds new light on how complex ecological, economic, and political factors contour processes of conscious cultural change. The works gathered here center contributors’ experiences and observations of life in an era of profound uncertainty. Bringing together theoretically informed considerations, ethnographic examples, and viewpoints from active transition movement participants, this book is certain to catalyze rich discussions about transition’s myriad opportunities and its broad significance for socio-ecological change research. Fifteen original chapters highlight distinctive circumstances of post-carbon transitions as they play out in diverse communities around the world. These contributions are framed by a foreword by Arturo Escobar, a comprehensive introductory overview by the editors, and a dialogical conclusion that captures contributing authors’ key reflections on Transition Studies as an emergent field of knowledge production. Post-Carbon Futures: Imagining (and Enacting) New Worlds through Transition Studies will inspire readers to contemplate how transition intersects with their own academic and/or activist interests and generate exciting new understandings of conscious cultural change in the twenty-first century.

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Author:   Anna Willow ,  Bürge Abiral
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.830kg
ISBN:  

9781032832371

ISBN 10:   1032832371
Pages:   342
Publication Date:   02 September 2025
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Foreword Transition Studies: An Introduction 1. Transitions Beyond Crisis: Emergence and Temporality in Collective Worldmaking 2. Relationality and Presently Unimaginable Transitions 3. “Changing Our Culture”: The Transition Movement and Cultural Transformation 4. Unpackaged Stores and Cultural Transition 5. Who Gets to Farm? Reshaping Just Transitions in (Agri)culture 6. Justified or Unjustified Transition to Post-Coal Power Production?: Unraveling Necropolitics in Taiwan’s Solar Energy Transition Protests 7. Fostering a Circular Economy Transition in Bangkok: A Learning Journey 8. Gendering Just Transition: How Back-to-the-Landers in Turkey Perpetuate Gender Inequality 9. Navigating 21st-Century Nepantla Classrooms: Land-based Ethnic Studies Towards Transition 10. “It’s Not Very Liverpool, Is It?”: T/transition Initiatives in a Post-Industrial City 11. The Transit of Transition: Three Conditions 12. Emergency Transition or Decolonization? Historical Contradictions of a Neocolonial Satellite State 13. One Cauca River, Many Worlds: Transitioning Towards Pluriversal Territorial Peace 14. Design and Futures Anthropologies for Transitions: Reframing the Journey to Net Zero 15. Transition Design: Resolving Wicked Problems to Catalyze Multi-Scalar Sustainability Transitions Imagining the Future of Transition Studies: A Concluding Conversation

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Anna Willow is Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Ohio State University, USA. Bürge Abiral is a President's Postdoctoral Scholar in the Department of Anthropology and the Middle East Studies Center at Ohio State University, USA.

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