Resilience in the Anthropocene

David Chandler is Professor of International Relations, University of Westminster, UK. His recent monographs include Becoming Indigenous: Governing Imaginaries in the Anthropocene (with Julian Reid, 2019) and Ontopolitics in the Anthropocene: An Introduction to Mapping, Sensing and Hacking (2018). Kevin Grove is Associate Professor of Geography at Florida International University. His research explores the politics of disaster management and resilience in the Caribbean and North American cities. He is the author most recently of Resilience (Routledge Key Ideas in Geography series, 2018). Stephanie Wakefield is an Urban Studies Foundation International Postdoctoral Fellow based at Florida International University. Her work explores experimental practices for living in and governing the Anthropocene. Her book Anthropocene Back Loop: Experimentation in Unsafe Operating Space is forthcoming.

List of Contributors 1. Introduction: The Power of Life Stephanie Wakefield, Kevin Grove and David Chandler; 2. Resilient Earth: Gaia, Geopolitics and the Anthropocene Simon Dalby; 3. Security for a Fragmented World: Ecology and the Challenge of the Anthropocene Madeleine Fagan; 4. The End of Resilience? Rethinking Adaptation in the Anthropocene David Chandler; 5. Colliding times: urgency, resilience and the politics of living with volcanic gas emissions in the Anthropocene Sébastien Nobert, Harold Bellanger Rodríguez and Xochilt Hernandez; 6. Resilient Arts of Government: The Birth of a ‘Systems-Cybernetic Governmentality’ Sara Nelson; 7. Destituting Resilience: Contextualizing and Contesting Science for the Anthropocene Kevin Grove and Allain Barnett; 8. Ironies of the Anthropocene Lauren Rickards; 9. ‘Primordial Wounds’: Resilience, Trauma, and the Rifted Body of the Earth Nigel Clark; 10. More of the same? Life beyond the liberal one world world Stephanie Wakefield; 11. What Would you Do (and who would you kill) in Order to Save the World?: Dialectical Resilience Claire Colebrook; Index