Description
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.
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
