Navigating the Polycrisis: Mapping the Futures of Capitalism and the Earth by Mi

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"Critical analysis of the convergence of global crises facing humanity and their implications for our planetary future"--

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An innovative work of realism and utopianism that analyzes the possible futures of the world-system and helps us imagine how we might transition beyond capitalism.An innovative work of realism and utopianism that analyzes the possible futures of the world-system and helps us imagine how we might transition beyond capitalism.The world-system of which we are all a part faces multiple calamities- climate change and mass extinction, the economic and existential threat of AI, the chilling rise of far-right populism, and the invasion of Ukraine, to name only a few. In Navigating the Polycrisis, Michael Albert seeks to illuminate how the "planetary polycrisis" will disrupt the global community in the coming decades and how we can best meet these challenges. Albert argues that we must devote more attention to the study of possible futures and adopt transdisciplinary approaches to do so. To provide a new form of critical futures analysis, he offers a theoretical framework-planetary systems thinking-that is informed by complexity theory, world-systems theory, and ecological Marxism.Navigating the Polycrisis builds on existing work on climate futures and the futures of capitalism and makes three main contributions. First, the book brings together modeling projections with critical social theory in a more systematic way than has been done so far. Second, the book shows that in order to grasp the complexity of the planetary polycrisis, we must analyze the convergence of crises encompassing the climate emergency, the structural crisis of global capitalism, net energy decline, food system disruption, pandemic risk, far-right populism, and emerging technological risks (e.g. in the domains of artificial intelligence, biotechnology, and nuclear weapons). And third, the book contributes to existing work on postcapitalist futures by analyzing the processes and mechanisms through which egalitarian transitions beyond capitalism might occur.A much-needed work of global futures studies, Navigating the Polycrisis brings together the rigor of the natural and social sciences and speculative imagination informed by science fiction to forge pathways to our possible global future.

Author Biography

Michael J. Albert is Lecturer in Global Environmental Politics at the University of Edinburgh.

Table of Contents

ContentsACKNOWLEDGMENTS ixLIST OF ABBREVIATIONS xiINTRODUCTION 11 THE PLANETARY POLYCRISIS 172 VISIONING AND SHAPING THE FUTURE: MODELS, SCENARIOS, AND CRITICAL SOCIAL SCIENCE FUTURES 633 PLANETARY SYSTEMS THINKING 874 THE SOCIOECOLOGICAL PROBLEMATIC: CLIMATE, ENERGY, FOOD, AND THE FUTURES OF CAPITALISM 1135 FUTURES OF GEOPOLITICS, SECURITY, AND THE PLANETARY PROBLEMATIC 177CONCLUSION 225NOTES 243INDEX 291

Review

"Navigating the Polycrisis's discussions of our planetary system and its likely trajectories are as rich as most Masters degree curricula, but the action-oriented framework it uses to do so elevates it to an instant classic of the polycrisis canon."—Resilience

Details ISBN0262547759 Author Michael J. Albert Publisher MIT Press Ltd Year 2024 ISBN-13 9780262547758 Format Paperback Publication Date 2024-04-23 Imprint MIT Press Subtitle Mapping the Futures of Capitalism and the Earth Country of Publication United States Audience General US Release Date 2024-04-23 DEWEY 909.830112 Pages 304 Illustrations 2 BLACK AND WHITE ILLUS. ISBN-10 0262547759 UK Release Date 2024-04-23 We've got this

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