Greentopia: Utopian Thought in the Anthropocene

Acknowledgements
Contents
Editors and Contributors
1 Introducing Greentopia: Content, Meaning and Framing of Utopian Explorations at the Human-Nature Interface
	1.1 Greentopia: A Working Definition
	1.2 Framing and Central Themes
	1.3 Prospect of the Content
	References
Part I Inquiries into Greentopia
2 Green Utopianism: Facing the Climate Crisis, Inhabiting the Anthropocene
	2.1 Introduction
	2.2 Green Utopia: After Nature; No Future
	2.3 Speculative Fiction and Social Futures: From the Edge to the Flood
	2.4 Conclusion: Inhabiting the Anthropocene
	References
3 Ecotopianism: Towards a Philosophical Conception
	3.1 Introduction
	3.2 Discovering Ecotopia
	3.3 Contemporary Utopian Theory
	3.4 Outlining a Conception of Ecotopianism
	3.5 Conclusion
	References
Part II Problems and Opportunities
4 Can We Envision Greentopia in the Anthropocene?
	4.1 Introduction
	4.2 What is the ‘Anthropocene’?
		4.2.1 A Brief History of the ‘Anthropocene’ Idea
		4.2.2 Defining the Anthropocene
	4.3 The Anthropocene as a Descriptive and a Normative Concept
		4.3.1 The Anthropocene—A Descriptive Term
		4.3.2 The Anthropocene—A Normative Term
	4.4 Can We Envision Greentopia in the Anthropocene?
	References
5 There is just not Enough Planet to Own: On the Need for Scarcity-Oriented Concepts of Property
	5.1 Introduction
	5.2 On the Need for a Functional Model of Property Conceptualisation
		5.2.1 Historical Context and Conceptual Disambiguation
	5.3 Physical and Normative Properties of Natural Resources
		5.3.1 Physical Properties
		5.3.2 Normative Properties
	5.4 Collective- and Individual-Based Models
		5.4.1 A Collective-Based Model
		5.4.2 An Individual-Based Model
	5.5 Scarce Resources and Property
		5.5.1 Commonly Used Resources: How to Challenge the Models
		5.5.2 Functional Model as Possible Alternative and Tool
	References
6 Ecological and Related Health Crises as Symptoms of “Wrong Life”: Disturbance, Reflection and Cognitive Transformation
	6.1 Introduction
	6.2 Exploring the Interconnection Between Institutional Inaction, COVID-19 and Ecological Crisis: The Position of the EU
	6.3 Actualizing More-Than-Human Justice Relations as a Component of a Cosmopolitan Programme of Action Moving Forward
	6.4 Conclusion
	References
7 In Conversation with Radioactive Plants: Reflecting on the Future of Contaminated Environments
	7.1 Introduction
	7.2 A Radioactive Beginning
	7.3 Vegetal Storytelling
	7.4 Fruitful Collaborations
	7.5 In Conversation with Radioactive Plants
	7.6 The Future of Contaminated Environments
	References
Part III Agriculture and Cultivation
8 Greentopia: The Agrarian Vision
	8.1 The Industrial Model in Social Thought
	8.2 The Agrarian Vision
	8.3 Agrarian Utopia
	8.4 Greentopia: A 21st Century Agrarianism?
	References
9 Promoting Food Sovereignty in the Sahel: Lessons from Indigenous Food Systems
	9.1 Food Security, Food Sovereignty and Greentopia
	9.2 Indigenous Food Systems: A Trajectory
	9.3 Utilizing Indigenous Food Systems in the Sahel: The Path Least Taken
	9.4 An Evaluation of Government Efforts to Promote Food Sovereignty in the Sahel
	9.5 Achieving Food Sovereignty Through Enhanced Indigenous Food Systems in the Sahel: Proposals
		9.5.1 Promoting Awareness
		9.5.2 Collective Responsibility for the Domestication of Indigenous Plants
		9.5.3 Formulation of Policies to Promote IFSs
		9.5.4 Restoring Community Connections to the Land and Traditions
		9.5.5 Policies on Climate, Food, Energy, and Water
	9.6 Conclusion
	References
10 Greentopia in the Garden: From Paradise to Virtuous Practice
	10.1 Introduction: Paradise Garden
	10.2 The Promise of Paradise
	10.3 Greentopian Lessons from Paradise
	10.4 For Real?—The Importance of Practice
	10.5 Paradise Lost: The Challenge of Gardening
	10.6 Greentopian Virtues
		10.6.1 Virtues of Caring for Nature
		10.6.2 Virtues of Facing Reality
		10.6.3 Virtues of Dealing with Natural Constraints
		10.6.4 Virtues of “Making It Work”
	10.7 Conclusion
	References
Part IV Animals and Technology
11 The Meat of the Matter, or the Neglect of Vegetarianism and Animal Ethics in Contemporary Ecotopian Science Fiction
	11.1 Introduction
	11.2 Vegetarian Utopianism and the Critical Carnist Shift
	11.3 Ernest Callenbach’s Carnist Ecotopias
	11.4 Kim Stanley Robinson
	11.5 Modern Ecotopian and Ecocritical Oversights
	11.6 Pandemic Intersections
	11.7 Conclusion
	References
12 A Better Wilderness? Ethical Questions and Social Ambivalences of Precision Livestock Farming
	12.1 A Revolution in Agriculture?
	12.2 Examples in the Field and the Barn
	12.3 Ethical Questions and Social Ambivalences
	12.4 A Utopian/Dystopian Escalation
	References
13 Green and Smart Visions of Urban Futures
	13.1 Introduction
	13.2 A World of Cities
	13.3 Utopian Urban Visions and the Eco-Techno Spaceship Model
	13.4 Green and Smart Cities
		13.4.1 Similarities
		13.4.2 Differences
	13.5 Concluding Remarks
	References
Part V Concluding Remarks
14 Greentopia: Methods of Environmental Imagination in the Anthropocene
	14.1 Why Greentopia is Needed
		14.1.1 The Environmental Standstill
		14.1.2 Tricking Our Mind and Overcoming Status-Quo Biases
		14.1.3 First Steps to the Missing Green Vision
	14.2 Three Traits of Greentopia that Side with New Utopianism
	14.3 Greentopian Complexities
		14.3.1 The Non-place: Greentopia as Narrative
		14.3.2 The Places: Greentopian Areas of Friction
		14.3.3 Nature and Non-nature: Disruption as Greentopian Condition
	14.4 Conclusion, and the Way Forward
	References