Cover

Title page

Copyright page

Contents

Acknowledgements

1: Introduction: Utopia, Environment and Nature

Other green worlds

Thinking with utopias

Ideal natures: entanglements of environment and utopia

Before and after the end of nature

2: Environmentalism: From Crisis to Hope

Whole earth, new futures

The limits to growth and the apocalyptic horizon

Sustainable development: paths to a liveable future

From limits to sustainability

3: Deep Ecology: Wild Nature, Radical Visions

Crisis, culture and consciousness

Deep green philosophy and utopian desire

Ecopolitics and utopian visions

The value of the ecocentric utopia

4: Utopian Fiction: Imagining the Sustainable Society

Reading ecotopian fiction

Three ecotopias

Green utopias: critical and experiential

Inhabiting utopia

5: No Future: Green Utopias between Apocalypse and Adaptation

Rewriting crisis

Coming to terms with climate change

Apocalypse now and always

Green hope after the future

Ecological modernization and immanent apocalyptics

Utopia in Anthropocene fictions

Wicked problems and eternal return

6: After Nature: Ecological Utopianism from Limits to Loss

From no future to no nature

Mourning the end of nature: loss and hope

Celebrating the end of nature: new materialisms, new possibilities

Utopian prospects: nature’s absent presence in speculative fiction

Green utopianism after the end

7: Conclusion: Long Live the Green Utopia?

Notes

Chapter 1: Introduction: Utopia, Environment and Nature

Chapter 2: Environmentalism: From Crisis to Hope

Chapter 3: Deep Ecology: Wild Nature, Radical Visions

Chapter 4: Utopian Fiction: Imagining the Sustainable Society

Chapter 5: No Future: Green Utopias between Apocalypse and Adaptation

Chapter 6: After Nature: Ecological Utopianism from Limits to Loss

Chapter 7: Conclusion: Long Live the Green Utopia?

References

Index

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