Non-Human Nature in World Politics

lt;p>Joana Castro Pereira is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Portuguese Institute of International Relations, NOVA University of Lisbon. Her current research focuses on the governance of climate change and biodiversity in the Amazon. Pereira has published in journals such as Global Policy, Water Alternatives, Global Environmental Politics, and Journal of Latin American Studies. She has also collaborated with the European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS), the EU-LAC Foundation, and the Global Challenges Foundation.

André Saramago is Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Faculty of Economics, University of Coimbra, and Online Learning and Research Associate with DiploFoundation (University of Malta). He holds a PhD from Aberystwyth University and is a researcher with the Orient Institute. Saramago's research interests are currently focused on Marxism, critical international theory, and East Asia studies. His research has been published in journals such as International Relations, Asian Survey, and Human Figurations.

Introduction.-Chapter1: Embracing non-human nature in world politics.-Part I: Theoretical investigations.- Chapter2:  Encountering nature in global life.- Chapter3: The end of normal politics: assemblages, non-humans and international relations.- Chapter4: Across species and borders: political representation, ecological democracy and the non-human.- Chapter5: A quantum anthropocene? international relations between rupture and entanglement.- Chapter 6: Ecologies of globalization: mountain governance and multinatural planetary politics.- Chapter7: Becoming one with the other: how Amazonian indigenous ontologies can guide post-human politics and change human-nature relationships.- Chapter8: Conflicting temporalities and the ecomodernist vision of rewilding.- Chapter9. Elias in the Anthropocene: human nature, evolution and the politics of great acceleration.- Part II: Empirical investigations.- Chapter10: Anthropocentrisation and its discontens in Indonesia: indigenous communities, non-human nature, and Anthropocentric political-economic governance.- Chapter11: Ecological civilization: the political rhetoric of Marxism with Chinese characteristics.