Ecocene Politics

Abstract

Brussel and the Evaluating Democratic Politics in Europe (EDGE) Research Program. All have provided indispensable funding for seeing this project through. Mariana și Doru au lăsat mai multe urme decât se pot număra. Darurile lor nu se răsplătesc; se dau mai departe. Parts of this work have appeared in other forms before. Chapter 3 draws in part on the article 'Evocative Representation' published in Constellations (2020). Chapters 4 and 6 draw on 'Responsibility and the Ethics of Ecological Restoration ', Environmental Philosophy (2017).One of the central ideas of this book is that we all inherit, obliquely and largely unpredictably, practices and knowledge from varied and surprising sources. I therefore acknowledge my unpayable debt to ancestors living and spectral, human and non-human. They are the soil that nurture present and future life.

Moving through liquid territories: A cartographic history of roads in the Danube Delta

“…Starting from an assumption of space as grid‐like, the modern state has managed to enact that which it was supposed to describe (also see Tănăsescu, 2022). Despite the modification of the territory to fit its cartographical description, volumetric assemblages endure, though in many cases they are greatly impoverished.…”

“…The arguments of this paper align themselves with the idea that there are always multiple, competing ontological categories that could describe observable phenomena. Moreover, each ontological description comes with its own political possibilities etched within, what Tănăsescu calls the descriptive–prescriptive nexus (2022, p. 9). Geographers have taken this insight and applied it to re‐descriptions of urban spaces (McNeill, 2019), as well as to discussions of the notion of territory itself, wherever it might be emplaced (Elden, 2007, 2010, 2013).…”

Representation, Democracy, and the Ecological Age

“…How to rethink a legal system that looks beyond the human. How, in other words, to live in what has been called the Ecocene (Tănăsescu 2022b; also see Youatt 2020; Armstrong 2016), the era when ecological forces seem to be driving social and political change. The Ecocene is a new problem, and it generously distributes new and challenging puzzles.…”

“…The fact that the concept of crisis is often invoked does not imply that it should be, or that it is the obvious framing for thinking eco-social imbroglios. See, for example,Stengers (2015;2018a; andTănăsescu (2022b).3 For the now-classic treatment of the problem of nature-culture dualism, seeDescola (2013).…”

Common Values and Constitutional Identities : Can Separate Gears Be Synchronised?

“…Tănăsescu, 2022 Tănăsescu, , p. 1328 Romanian language. 12 The Romanian Constitution enshrines the European model of constitutional review, see arts.…”