Description: The first book of its kind to offer a new materialist framework for the study of power.
Brief description: Lars Tønder is Professor of Political Science at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He is the author of Tolerance: A Sensorial Orientation to Politics (Oxford University Press, 2013) and co-editor of Radical Democracy: Politics Between Abundance and Lack (Manchester University Press, 2005). His current research interests include climate change, democratic theory, social movements and political contestation.
Review Quotes: Responding to this age of extraordinary human impact on planetary systems, Lars Tønder offers a brilliant blend of new materialism, climate politics, and engaged analyses of power in an attempt to reset the social sciences for the challenge. Power in the Anthropocene is a great critique of the breadth of the ecological blindness of social science, but also a genuinely reconstructive response to the current age of climate turbulence.--David Schlosberg, Sydney Environment Institute, University of Sydney