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Navigating the Polycrisis

Mapping the Futures of Capitalism and the Earth

by Michael J. Albert

ISBN: 9780262547758

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: April 23, 2024

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.

Recycling Class

The Contradictions of Inclusion in Urban Sustainability

by Manisha Anantharaman

ISBN: 9780262546973

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: January 2, 2024

An ethnographic and community-engaged study of the class, caste, and gender politics of environmental mobilizations around Bengaluru, India's discards.

Agrobiodiversity

Integrating Knowledge for a Sustainable Future

Edited by Karl S. Zimmerer and Stef de Haan

ISBN: 9780262549691

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: October 31, 2023

Experts discuss the challenges faced in agrobiodiversity and conservation, integrating disciplines that range from plant and biological sciences to economics and political science.

Democracy in a Hotter Time

Climate Change and Democratic Transformation

Edited by David W. Orr

Foreword by Bill McKibben

Afterword by Kim Stanley Robinson

ISBN: 9780262048590

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: September 19, 2023

The first major book to deal with the dual crises of democracy and climate change as one interrelated threat to the human future and to identify a path forward.

The Politics of Invisibility

Public Knowledge about Radiation Health Effects after Chernobyl

by Olga Kuchinskaya

ISBN: 9780262548861

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: August 15, 2023

Lessons from the massive Chernobyl nuclear accident about how we deal with modern hazards that are largely imperceptible.

Liquid Power

Contested Hydro-Modernities in Twentieth-Century Spain

by Erik Swyngedouw

ISBN: 9780262548960

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: August 15, 2023

An examination of the central role of water politics and engineering in Spain's modernization, illustrating water's part in forging, maintaining, and transforming social power.

Design for Resilience

Making the Future We Leave Behind

by Stuart Walker

ISBN: 9780262048095

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: August 1, 2023

A beautifully written and illustrated framework for resilient design that is as pragmatic as it is inspiring, showing us not only how but why we should design differently.