Manuel Arias-Maldonado is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Málaga, Spain. His research has revolved around different aspects of Environmental Political Theory, mostly the relationship between sustainability and democracy, the philosophical and political character of socionatural relations, the concept of nature, and, as of late, the Anthropocene.

Zev Trachtenberg is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oklahoma, USA. His work in Environmental Political Theory focuses on ways historical works prefigure thinking about the Anthropocene. He is also interested in the relevance to the field of new developments in the study of human evolution.

Introduction Manuel Arias-Maldonado and Zev Trachtenberg Part I: Understanding nature in the Anthropocene. 1. The return of nature in the Capitalocene: a critique of the ecomodernist version of the 'good Anthropocene' Anne Fremaux 2. Emancipation, capture, and rescue? On the ontological turn and its critique Luigi Pellizzoni3. Novel ecosystems and the return of nature in the Anthropocene Susan BakerPart II: Environmental political theory and the Anthropocene. 4. Vocations of (environmental) political theory in the Anthropocene John M. Meyer 5. The ecological circumstances of politics Zev Trachtenberg6. What cities can teach us about environmental political theory in the Anthropocene Nir Barak Part III: The Anthropocene as a moral question. 7. Anthropocene: the emergence of the figure of "Governator" Yohan Ariffin 8. Real Anthropocene politics Simon Hailwood9. Towards a good Anthropocene? Manuel Arias-Maldonado Part IV: Democratic responses to the Anthropocene. 10. Geo-engineering: a curse or a blessing? Marcel Wissenburg11. Sustainability governance in a democratic Anthropocene: the arts as key to deliberative citizen engagement Marit Hammond and Hugh Ward 12. Critical design, hybrid labor, just transitions: moving beyond technocratic ecomodernisms and the it's-too-late-o-cene Damian White Afterword: the Anthropocene or welcome to our fluxed futures John Barry