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FORTHCOMING BOOK


Sustainability and Peaceful Coexistence for the Anthropocene

The rapid industrialisation of societies has resulted in radical changes to the Earth’s biosphere and its local ecosystems. Climate scientists have recorded and forecasted worrying global temperature rises going back to the early twentieth century, while biologists and palaeontologists have suggested that the next mass extinction is on its way if the current rate of species loss continues. To avert further ecological damage, excessive natural resource use and environmental deterioration are challenges that humanity must deal with now. The human species has had an impact on the natural environment so significant that the present geological era can be referred to as the ‘Anthropocene’, the age of humans. The blame and responsibility for the prevailing unsustainability, however, cannot be assigned equally to all humans.

To analyse the root problems and consequences of unsustainable development, as well as to outline rigorous solutions for the contemporary epoch, this transdisciplinary book brings together natural and social sciences under the rubric of the Anthropocene. The book identifies the central preconditions for social organisation and governance to enable peaceful coexistence of humans and the non-human world. The contributors investigate the burning questions of sustainability from a number of different perspectives including geosciences, economics, law, organisational studies, political theory, and philosophy. The book is a state-of-the-art review of the Anthropocene debate and provides crucial signposts for how human activities can, and should, be changed.

Editor: Pasi Heikkurinen (University of Leeds, UK)

Contents

Foreword (Series Editor Paolo Davide Farah)
Acknowledgements
Introduction

I CONCEPTS, CAUSES, AND CONSEQUENCES

1 On the Emergence of Peaceful Coexistence
Pasi Heikkurinen

2 The Anthropocene: A Geological Perspective
Mark Williams, Jan Zalasiewicz, Colin Waters

3 Climate Change Immigrants or Refugees of the Anthropocene — Adapting to or Denying Climate Change?
Tarja Ketola

II CAPITALISM AND NEOLIBERAL GOVERNMENTALITY

4 Capitalism and the Absolute Contradiction in the Anthropocene
Toni Ruuska

5 Managing the Environment: Neoliberal Governmentality in the Anthropocene
Jessica C. Lawrence

III THINKING AND THE NON-HUMAN WORLD

6 ‘It’s Getting Better and Better, Worse and Worse, Faster and Faster’: The Human Animal in the Anthropocene
Todd LeVasseur

7 Scale, Noosphere Two, and the Anthropocene
J. Mohorčich

IV POST-GROWTH SOCIETIES AND ORGANISATIONS

8 Engaging with the Plutocene: Moving towards Degrowth and Post-Capitalistic Futures
Marko Ulvila, Kristoffer Wilén

9 Conceptualising Worker Agency for the Challenges of the Anthropocene: Examples from Recycling Work in the Global North Eeva Houtbeckers, Tiina Taipale

10 From Exploitation and Expansion to Evolutionary Coexistence: A New Realism for Life beyond the Anthropocene
Karl Johan Bonnedahl

Notes on Contributors
Index


CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS


Ethics and Politics of the Anthropocene


The Earth is in the middle of an enormous crisis, often referred to as the ‘Anthropocene’, the age of humans. In this new geological time humans interfere with the processes of the non-human world to an ever-greater extent and at a faster rate than ever before. This has produced an ecological crisis, but also socio-cultural one: unjust and inequitable distribution of wealth has accelerated since the Industrial Revolution.

As a response to this socio-ecological crisis, political and economic actors have called for a transition to sustainability, a post-industrial mode of production fueled by green and clean technology. This reformist agenda, employing notions such as ‘sustainable development’, ‘sustainable growth’ and ‘green economy’, posits that advances of modern technology and economic development are the ways to solve the problems of the Anthropocene. Yet, the offered solutions neither challenge the root causes of the ecological destruction, namely economic growth combined with the growth of population, nor the prevailing social injustices maintained by the capitalist mode of production. Instead, the Anthropocene problems are treated as externalities or market failures that can be addressed by more efficient organization of economic activities.

This book’s intention is to move beyond the techno-capitalist regime and call for new and more radical ways for addressing current social-economic crisis. To this aim, we envisage a new narrative of change that is based upon deep transformations rather than mere social and economic reforms. Such a narrative does not outline the transformation, but rather renders visible ‘small’ transformations taking place throughout the globe. We view that these numerous and various transformations enable to alter unjust practices and power structures in a more sustainable and context-specific way. Importantly, such a new narrative highlights, rather than suppresses, the potentiality residing in non-Western ways of relating to and living in the earth.

More specifically, the book will focus on reimagining the Anthropocene through the concepts of ethics and politics, and will do so by emphasizing the question of space. This is because many of the problems of the Anthropocene revolve around the question of how space between the human sphere and the rest of the world is, or is not, shared – an ethical and political question in itself. The Anthropocene also profoundly challenges the temporal and spatial horizons of ethical actions, and arouses novel ethical concerns related to the representation of spaces. Indeed, the ontologies of space radically affect the episteme through which the human-earth relations are understood, challenging the conventional norms for coexistence. The Anthropocene also invites to reassess the often Eurocentric and rationalistic assumptions inscribed in ethical theories and to explore conceptual and practical links between ethics and politics. Furthermore, the changes occurring in the Earth, and in technology and medicine, open up novel ethical questions, relevant for many fields from law to social sciences and humanities. The colloquium therefore seeks to consider the scope of ethical and political analyses in a broad sense so as to better to capture the complex and novel nature of on-going transformations.

The conference papers from the 2nd Peaceful Coexistence Colloquium will be considered for publication in a book with the preliminary title as above within the Routledge ‘Transnational Law and Governance’ -series (edited by Paolo Farah).

More information on the deadlines will be provided in the conference.

Editors: TBC


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CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS


Strongly Sustainable Societies: Organising Human Activities on a Hot and Full Earth


The Earth is getting hotter and fuller. With mounting evidence, climate scientists record and forecast global temperature rises, while biologists and palaeontologists present signs of a mass extinction of species. The full Earth thus refers to a human-dominated state of affairs (see Daly, 2005), as the ‘end of nature’ was already proclaimed a generation ago (McKibben, 1989). These two radical circumstances for life on Earth are closely linked. Human activity driven by industrialisation and the global rich, but also more generally promoted by our numbers, systems and priorities, have destroyed natural habitats, changed ecosystems, marginalized traditional cultures and eliminated or domesticated non-human populations.

The international community’s responses to the socio-ecological problems that took off in the 20th century have been framed around the concept of ‘sustainable development’. The ecological pressure from human societies, however, has continued to rise since the Brundtland report (WCED, 1987), and the anthropocentric sustainability discourse has proven to be problematic (Purser et al., 1995; McShane, 2007). At the core of the conventional sustainability agenda is an instrumental view of the non-human world, empirically unfounded ideas of technological salvation, and the premise of ‘substitutability’ between human and natural capitals (e.g. Bonnedahl and Eriksson, 2007; Heikkurinen and Bonnedahl, 2013). This current trajectory of ‘progress’ is problematic not only as it reproduces inequalities and jeopardises future wellbeing of humans but also from an ecocentric perspective, which sees non-humans as intrinsically valuable (see Heikkurinen, 2017).

This is a call for authors that wish to present alternatives and challenge today’s unsustainable societies. We welcome manuscripts that investigate and advance pathways for humanity that are realistic in the ecological sense, ethical in an inclusive manner, and wise in terms of comprehension of the task’s magnitude and urgency.

We therefore highly appreciate proposals that confront the traditional anthropocentric ethos and ontology, mainstream economic growth-dogma, programmes of ecological modernism, and assumptions of weak sustainability. We invite manuscripts on different levels of analysis, from the individual to the biosphere, as well as both conceptual and empirical contributions. Papers can address the economic or financial system, certain discourses or practices, changes in key sectors, delve into alternative lifestyles or into experiences of local and native societies. Authors may also examine the human–nature or inter-species relations or deal with question of needs, wealth and intra- or intergenerational justice. In the task of imagining the required modes for organising human activity in societies, the common thread that will run through the chapters is the premise of strong sustainability (see e.g. Holland, 1997; Neumayer, 2002).

The submitted chapters will be considered for publication in a book with the preliminary title as above within the Routledge-Earthscan Environment and Sustainability portfolio.

If you have any questions related to the book, please contact us. Send your abstract of 500-1000 words by email to p.heikkurinen@leeds.ac.uk or karl.bonnedahl@umu.se by the 30th of January 2017. The final chapter manuscript is limited to 10,000 words and will be due on the 1st of June 2017.

Editors: Karl Johan Bonnedahl (Umeå University, Sweden) and Pasi Heikkurinen (University of Leeds, UK)

References

Bonnedahl, K. J., & Eriksson, J. (2007) Sustainable economic organisation: simply a matter of reconceptualisation or a need for a new ethics?. International Journal of Innovation and Sustainable Development, 2(1): 97-115.

Goodland, R., & Daly, H. (1996) Environmental sustainability: universal and non-negotiable. Ecological Applications, 6(4): 1002-1017.

Daly, H. E. (2005) Economics in a Full World. Scientific American, 293(3): 100-107.
Heikkurinen, P. (ed.) (2017) Sustainability and Peaceful Coexistence for the Anthropocene. Routledge: New York and London.

Heikkurinen, P., & Bonnedahl, K. J. (2013) Corporate responsibility for sustainable development: a review and conceptual comparison of market- and stakeholder-oriented strategies. Journal of Cleaner Production, 43: 191-198.

Holland, A. (1997) Substitutability: Or, why strong sustainability is weak and aburdly strong sustainability is not absurd. In: Foster, J. (ed.), Valuing Nature? Ethics, Economics and the Environment, p. 119–134. Routledge: London.

McKibben, B. (1989) The End of Nature. Anchor: New York.

McShane, K. (2007) Anthropocentrism vs. nonanthropocentrism: Why should we care?. Environmental Values, 16(2), 169-186.

Purser, R. E., Park, C., & Montuori, A. (1995) Limits to anthropocentrism: Toward an ecocentric organization paradigm?. Academy of Management Review, 20(4): 1053-1089.

Neumayer, E. (2002) Weak versus Strong Sustainability: Exploring the Limits of Two Opposing Paradigms. Edward Edgar Publishing: London.

WCED (1987) Our Common Future. Report of the World Commission on Environment and Development. United Nations: New York.

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