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Book SynopsisThis book examines the concept of liberty in relation to civilizationâs ability to live within ecological limits.
Freedom, in all its renditions â choice, thought, action â has become inextricably linked to our understanding of what it means to be modern citizens. And yet, it is our relatively unbounded freedom that has resulted in so much ecological devastation. Liberty has piggy-backed on transformations in humanânature relationships that characterize the Anthropocene: increasing extraction of resources, industrialization, technological development, ecological destruction, and mass production linked to global consumerism. This volume provides a deeply critical examination of the concept of liberty as it relates to environmental politics and ethics in the long view. Contributions explore this entanglement of freedom and the ecological crisis, as well as investigate alternative modernities and more ecologically benign ways of living on Earth. The overarching framework for this
Table of Contents
Forward by Dale Jamieson 1. Introduction Part I Navigating Wicked Dilemmas of Liberty and Agency in the Anthropocene 2. Liberty in the near Anthropocene: State, Market, and Livelihood 3. Nations and Nationalism in the Anthropocene 4. Reclaiming Freedom Through Prefigurative Politics Prt II Seeds of Freedom and Nature in Modern Traditions 5. Are freedom and Interdependency Compatible? Lessons from Classical Liberal and Contemporary Feminist Theory 6. Limits and Liberty in the Anthropocene 7. The Virtue Ethics Alternative to Freedom for a Mutually Beneficial Human-Earth Relationship 8. Who Stands for Uŋčí Makhá: The Liberal Nation-State, Racism, Freedom, and Nature 9. Nature, Liberty, and Ontology: Why Nature Experience Still Exists and Matters in the Anthropocene Part III Resisting the Undertow of Modernity 10. Liberation from excess – a post-growth economy case for freedom in the Anthropocene 11. Cognitively Unstable Rational Agents: A New Challenge for Economics in the Anthropocene? 12. The Civilicene and its Alternatives: Anthropology and its Longue Durée 13. Defending and Driving the Climate Movement by Redefining Freedom Part IV From Navigating the Anthropocene to Being in the Ecozoic 14. A Beginners Guide to Avoiding Bad Policy Mistakes in the Anthropocene 15. Liberty, energy and complexity in the Longue Durée 16. Forest on Trial: Towards a Relational Theory of Legal Agency for Transitions into the Ecozoic 17. From the Ecological Crisis of the Anthropocene to Harmony in the Ecozoic
