Introduction: The Anthropocene and International Relations
Delf Rothe, Franziska Müller and David Chandler
Part One: The Anthropocene: From the Global to the Planetary
Introduction
Towards a Politics for the Earth: Rethinking IR in the Anthropocene
Joana Castro Pereira
Encounters with System Sciences: Planetary Boundaries and Hothouse Earth
Judith Hardt
The Nuclear origins of the Anthropocene
Rens van Munster
Decolonizing the Anthropocene
Cheryl McEwan
Geoengineering: A New Arena of International Politics
Olaf Corry and Nikolaj Kornbech
Genealogies of the Anthropocene and How to Study Them
Delf Rothe and Ann-Kathrin Benner
Part Two: The Challenge of Security
Introduction
Environmental Security and the Geopolitics of the Anthropocene
Simon Dalby
Security in the Anthropocene
Maria Julia Trombetta
Security through Resilience: Contemporary Challenges in the Anthropocene
David Chandler
Protecting the vulnerable: Towards an ecological approach of security
Matt McDonald
Caring with the world: security in the Anthropocene
Cameron Harrington
Part Three: Governance and Agency
Introduction
Posthuman International Relations: Complexity, Ecology and Global Politics
Erika Cudworth and Steve Hobden
Agency in More-than-Human, Queerfeminist and Decolonial Perspectives
Franziska Müller
The Asia-Pacific in the Anthropocene
Dahlia Simangan
Democracy and Governance in the Anthropocene
Ayšem Mert
Environmental Governance in the Anthropocene: Transforming Institutions, Ideas and Norms of Sustainability
Basil Bornemann
Part Four: Methods and Approaches: Beyond the Human/Nature Divide
Introduction
Collaging and Composition as Method
Anna Leander
Knowing of ontologies: map-making to ‘see’ worlds of relations
Caitlin Ryan
Spatializing the Environmental Apocalypse
Suvi Alt
Weather as a method
Harshavardhan Bhat
Anthropocene and science-fiction-cinema
Isabella Hermann
Experimentation in the Anthropocene: doing the city differently
Stephanie Wakefield
David Chandler is Professor of International Relations at the University of Westminster, UK.
Franziska Müller is Assistant Professor for Globalization and Climate Governance at the University of Hamburg, Germany.
Delf Rothe is Researcher and Principal Investigator of the DFG-funded research project ‘The Knowledge Politics of Security in the Anthropocene’, Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy, University of Hamburg, Germany.
This textbook introduces advanced students of International Relations (and beyond) to the ways in which the advent of, and reflections on, the Anthropocene impact on the study of global politics and the disciplinary foundations of IR. The book contains 23 chapters, authored by senior academics as well as early career scholars, and is divided into four parts, detailing, respectively, why the Anthropocene is of importance to IR, challenges to traditional approaches to security, the question of governance and agency in the Anthropocene, and new methods and approaches, going beyond the human/nature divide.
David Chandler is Professor of International Relations at the University of Westminster, UK.
Franziska Müller is Assistant Professor for Globalization and Climate Governance at the University of Hamburg, Germany.
Delf Rothe is Researcher and Principal Investigator of the DFG-funded research project ‘The Knowledge Politics of Security in the Anthropocene’, Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy, University of Hamburg, Germany.
Chapter 9, “Security in the Anthropocene” is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.