Non-Human Nature in World Politics

Joana Castro Pereira is a Junior Research Fellow at the Portuguese Institute of International Relations (IPRI-NOVA) and Invited Assistant Professor of International Relations at the New University of Lisbon (Portugal). Her current research focuses on the governance of climate change and biodiversity in the Amazon. Pereira has published in prestigious journals such as Global Policy , Water Alternatives , and Revista Brasileira de Política Internacional , and participated as a speaker and organizer in several international conferences (ECPR, LASA, EISA). She has also collaborated with international governmental institutions such as the European Union and the EU-LAC Foundation. André Saramago is an Assistant Professor of International Relations at the University of Beira Interior (Covilhã, Portugal), a Course Coordinator and Research Consultant with DiploFoundation (University of Malta), and an Associate Researcher at the Orient Institute (University of Lisbon, Portugal). He holds a Ph.D. from Aberystwyth University (Wales, UK). Saramago's research focuses on critical international theory, Marxism, and the foreign policies of East Asian states, namely Singapore and China. He is the editor of Climate Change, Moral Panics and Civilization , authored by Amanda Rohloff, and his research has been published in journals such as 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.