Earthbound: The Aesthetics of Sovereignty in the Anthropocene

Winner of the Penny Pether Prize 2021 Examines how sovereignty inures us from the challenges associated with the climate crisis Engages with the work of Bruno Latour, Simone Weil, Clive Hamilton, Jacques Rancière, Donna Haraway, Judith Butler, Giorgio Agamben, Stuart Elden and othersPresents an innovative theory of sovereignty’s ‘aesthetics’ that contributes to contemporary debates in legal and political theoryOutlines the key challenges for law and politics provoked by the Anthropocene epoch In