This open access volume bridges the so far rather disconnected debates on the crisis of democracy and the Anthropocene. The various, contradicting, but also entangled relations between democracy and the Anthropocene are the overarching theme. Across four sections, contributors probe the impasses and transformations of liberal modernity and navigate new political forms and democratic possibilities emerging in the Anthropocene: 1) crisis diagnoses, 2) conceptual reflections on the epistemic shifts of democratic politics in the Anthropocene, 3) concepts for governing in the Anthropocene and 4) (local) practices and innovations of democracy in the Anthropocene.

This book is an open access publication.

Claudia Wiesner is Professor of Political Science at Fulda University of Applied Sciences, Germany, a member of the board of directors of the “Point Alpha Research Institute”, and adjunct Professor in Political Science at Jyväskylä University in Finland.

Tom Scheunemann is a research associate at Fulda University of Applied Sciences and a member of the Point Alpha Research Institute, Germany.