The Oxford Handbook of Environmental Political Theory

• I. Introduction


• 1: Teena Gabrielson, Cheryl Hall, John M. Meyer, and David Schlosberg: Introducing Environmental Political Theory


• II. Environmental Political Theory as a Field of Inquiry


• A. Engaging Traditions of Political Thought


• 2: Harlan Wilson: EPT and the History of Western Political Theory


• 3: Farah Godrej: Culture and Difference: Non-Western Approaches to Defining Environmental Issues


• 4: Piers H.G. Stephens: EPT and the Liberal Tradition


• 5: Peter Cannavò: EPT and Republicanism


• 6: Andrew Biro: Human Nature, Non-Human Nature, and Needs: EPT and Critical Theory


• B. Engaging the Academy


• 7: Kimberly Smith: Environmental Political Theory, Environmental Ethics, and Political Science: Bridging the Gap


• 8: Seaton Tarrant and Leslie Paul Thiele: Environmental Political Theory's Contribution to Sustainability Studies


• 9: Romand Coles: EPT and Environmental Action Research Teams


• III. Rethinking Nature and Political Subjects


• A. Nature, Environment, and the Political


• 10: Steven Vogel: 'Nature' and the (Built) Environment


• 11: Justin Williams: Theorizing the Nonhuman through Spatial and Environmental Thought


• 12: Samantha Frost: Challenging the Human x Environment Framework


• 13: David Schlosberg: Environmental Management in the Anthropocene


• B. Environment, Community, and Boundaries


• 14: Rafi Youatt: Interspecies


• 15: Catriona Sandilands: Floral Sensations: Plant Biopolitics


• 16: Simon Caney: Cosmopolitanism and the Environment


• IV. Ends, Goals, Ideals


• A. Sustainability

Teena Gabrielson is Associate Professor of Political Science and Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Wyoming. Her work on environmental citizenship, justice, and toxics discourse has been published in distinguished scholarly journals such as Environmental Politics, Theory & Event, and Citizenship Studies.

Cheryl Hall is Associate Professor of political theory in the School of Interdisciplinary Global Studies at the University of South Florida. She is the author of The Trouble with Passion: Political Theory Beyond the Reign of Reason and other work exploring the roles that emotions, values, imagination, deliberation, stories, and structures play in encouraging or discouraging more just and sustainable ways of life.

John M. Meyer is Professor in the Department of Politics, in Environmental Studies, and in the Environment and Community program at Humboldt State University in Arcata, California. He is the author of Engaging the Everyday: Environmental Social Criticism and the Resonance Dilemma (MIT Press, 2015), as well as other books and articles in environmental political theory.

David Schlosberg is Professor of Environmental Politics in the Department of Government and International Relations, and the Director of the Sydney Environment Institute, at the University of Sydney. He is the author of Defining Environmental Justice, co-author of Sustainable Materialism and Climate Challenged Society, and co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Climate Change and Society, all with Oxford University Press.