Futures: Imagining Socioecological Transformation Imagining Socioecological Transformation

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.

1. Futures: Imagining Socioecological Transformation—An IntroductionBruce Braun Knowing Socioecological Futures 2. The Future of Environmental ExpertiseRebecca Lave 3. Knowing Climate Change, Embodying Climate Praxis: Experiential Knowledge in Southern AppalachiaJennifer L. Rice, Brian J. Burke, and Nik Heynen 4. Temporalities in Adaptation to Sea-Level RiseRuth Fincher, Jon Barnett, and Sonia Graham 5. Translating Climate Change: Adaptation, Resilience, and Climate Politics in Nunavut, CanadaEmilie Cameron, Rebecca Mearns, and Janet Tamalik McGrath The Politics of Socioecological Transformation 6. Environmental Politics After Nature: Conflicting Socioecological FuturesBecky Mansfield, Christine Biermann, Kendra McSweeney, Justine Law, Caleb Gallemore, Leslie Horner, and Darla K. Munroe 7. The Place and Time of the Political in Urban Political Ecology: Contested Imaginations of a River’s FutureRyan Holifield and Nick Schuelke 8. Toward an Interim Politics of Resourcefulness for the AnthropoceneKate Driscoll Derickson and Danny MacKinnon 9. Climate Change and the Adaptation of the PoliticalJoel Wainwright and Geoff Mann 10. A Manifesto for Abundant FuturesRosemary-Claire Collard, Jessica Dempsey, and Juanita Sundberg Imagined Futures: Art, Film, Literature 11. The Art of Socioecological TransformationHarriet Hawkins, Sallie A. Marston, Mrill Ingram, and Elizabeth Straughan 12. These Overheating WorldsKendra Strauss 13. When Horses Won’t Eat: Apocalypse and the AnthropoceneFranklin Ginn 14. Imaginaries of Hope: The Utopianism of DegrowthGiorgos Kallis and Hug March Experiments in Socioecological Change 15. On the Possibilities of a Charming AnthropoceneHolly Jean Buck 16. Banking Spatially on the Future: Capital Switching, Infrastructure, and the Ecological FixNoel Castree and Brett Christophers 17. Biomimetic Futures: Life, Death, and the Enclosure of a More-Than-Human IntellectElizabeth R. Johnson and Jesse Goldstein 18. Agro-Ecology and Food Sovereignty Movements in Chile: Sociospatial Practices for Alternative Peasant FuturesBeatriz Cid Aguayo and Alex Latta 19. School Gardens as Sites for Forging Progressive Socioecological Futures Sarah A. Moore, Jeffrey Wilson, Sarah Kelly-Richards, and Sallie A. Marston 20. From Incremental Change to Radical Disjuncture: Rethinking Everyday Household Sustainability Practices as Survival Skills Chris Gibson, Lesley Head, and Chantel Carr 21. Transforming Household Consumption: From Backcasting to HomeLabs ExperimentsAnna R. Davies and Ruth Doyle

Bruce Braun is Professor of Geography at the University of Minnesota and a specialist in Environmental Thought and Politics. Current research includes Geosocial formations, green urbanism and apparatuses of government. His books include The Intemperate Rainforest: Nature, Culture and Power on Canada's West Coast, Political Matter: Technoscience, Democracy and Public Life, and Remaking Reality: Nature at the Millennium.