{"product_id":"the-ecology-politic-isbn-9780262552554","title":"The Ecology Politic","description":"\u003cb\u003eA compelling proposal for new international law and institutions to address the planetary crisis that improves biodiversity protection, supports Indigenous peoples, and prevents catastrophic climate change.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Ecology Politic\u003c\/i\u003e, Anthony Burke and Stefanie Fishel contend that the roots of our planetary crisis lie in the modern state: in its destructive entanglement with capitalism and its colonial legacies of extraction and oppression. This, in turn, has shaped global governance and international law, as they continue to fail to curb global heating, deforestation, and extinction. In a far-reaching critique of the foundational political theory of the modern state—the Body-Politic—the authors insist that nothing less than a radically different model of the polity—an Ecology Politic—is needed if we are to escape this impasse.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBurke and Fishel argue that the international rule of law enacts a sovereign ban of nature that appropriates nonhuman lives for profit and use while denying them political and legal standing. We fail because we rely on the very institutions, worldviews, and systems that generated the crisis to solve it. The authors reconsider political power, agency, scale, and democracy in the Anthropocene and assert a biospheric ethic that values the entangled planetary structure of matter, energy, and life. Further, they argue for more-than-human beings to be represented in an ecological democracy that flows across borders. In short, they imagine a polity whose fundamental purpose is to protect planetary ecosystems and nurture interlocking systems of social and ecological justice.Introduction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1 The Sovereign Ban of Nature\u003cbr\u003ePolitics, Law, and Ecology after the Holocene\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2 The Human Body Politic\u003cbr\u003eState, Territory, and Nonhuman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e3 Power After Power\u003cbr\u003eEcology, Thing-Systems, and Responsibility\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e4 Another Political Animal\u003cbr\u003eNonhuman Presence and Ecological Democracy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePOWER, ECOLOGY, AND LAW\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e5 Blue Screen Biosphere\u003cbr\u003eThe Absent Presence of Biodiversity in International Law\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e6 Posthuman Political Scale\u003cbr\u003eGoverning Climate Between Biome and Planet\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e7 Towards a Multispecies Contract\u003cbr\u003eHuman and Ecological Justice\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCONCLUSION\u003cbr\u003e8 The Ecology Politic\u003cbr\u003eA Polity for the Earth“Burke and Fishel have written the most thoroughgoing ecological revisioning of the social contract I have ever read. If only Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau and their ilk had started here!”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Robyn Eckersley, Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor in Political Science, University of Melbourne\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This engaging book questions extractivism, the nation-state, and sovereignty to develop a theory of collective responsibility that will be critical for shaping transformative governance and advancing a just society for humans and nonhumans.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Joyeeta Gupta, Distinguished Professor in Climate Justice, Sustainability, and Global Constitutionalism, University of Amsterdam\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Ecology Politic\u003c\/i\u003e thoroughly exposes the ecological failings of contemporary politics and the ideas that support it. This landmark contribution to environmental political theory shows how to radically reimagine politics, democracy, and justice along multispecies and ecological lines.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—John S. Dryzek, Distinguished Professor, University of Canberra; author of \u003ci\u003eThe Politics of the Earth\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e “[\u003ci\u003eThe Ecology Politic\u003c\/i\u003e] is a necessary component of any future environmental ethics.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Choice\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Burke and Fishel’s book \u003ci\u003eThe Ecology Politic\u003c\/i\u003e inhabits a productive and nuanced space between theory and practice which acknowledges the limits of the Anthropocene concept but also its generative potential.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eEnvironmental Politics\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eAnthony Burke is Professor of Environmental Politics and International Relations at UNSW, Australia. His books include \u003ci\u003eBeyond Security, Ethics and Violence\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eUranium\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eInstitutionalizing Multispecies Justice\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003eStefanie Fishel is Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at the University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Microbial State, Environmentalism after Humanism,\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePoe and the Microbiome\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304436125925,"sku":"NP9780262552554","price":55.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262552554.jpg?v=1767739126","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-ecology-politic-isbn-9780262552554","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}