Earth System Governance Our Planetary Condition: Foundations for a Politics with the Earth, (Paperback)

<b>An actionable framework for doing politics with Earth's nonliving, living, and technological agencies to expand planetary habitability.</b> <p><i>Our Planetary Condition</i> advances a simple yet transformative claim: we do not live <i>on</i> but are <i>part of</i> a planet whose nonliving, living, and technological forces actively shape politics. If keeping the Earth habitable is the defining challenge of our time, then politics must be restructured beyond human-centered and state-bound frameworks. Earth is not merely a system to manage but an agential complex to govern with. Authors Frederic Hanusch, Liza Bauer, Clemens Finkelstein, and Claus Leggewie propose a new approach for planetary politics--one that recognizes the collective agencies of nonliving, living, and technological actors as integral to our coexistence. </p><p>Rather than relying on human proxies to represent more-than-human concerns, the book shows how to do politics with planetary agencies--rivers and forests, cyclones and currents, even space weather--that actively shape political conditions. Across seven chapters, the authors unsettle inherited ideas of political subjectivity and representation, outlining a conceptual and practical framework for engaging these agencies that operate outside conventional registers of deliberation. </p><p>Merging political theory and the environmental humanities with research on planetary dynamics, ecological relations, and technological infrastructures alongside Indigenous and non-Western knowledges, this book introduces an actionable model for rethinking politics for the planetary age.</p>

• Earth System Governance Our Planetary Condition: Foundations for a Politics with the Earth, (Paperback)
• Author: MIT Press
• ISBN: 9780262057011
• Format: Paperback
• Publication Date: 2026-10-20
• Page Count: 248