Book reviews 2023

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All we want is the earth: land, labour and movements beyond environmentalism by Patrick Bresnihan and Naomi Millner. Bristol, Bristol University Press, 2023. Reviewed by Brendan Davidson
Post-Apocalyptic Environmentalism. The Green Movement in Times of Catastrophe by Håkan Thörn and Carl Cassegård, Cham, Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. Reviewed by Hannah Saldert
Women and climate change: examining discourses from the global north by Nicole Detraz, London, MIT Press, 2023. Reviewed by Joanna Flavell
Failing forward: the rise and fall of Neoliberal conservation by Robert Fletcher. Berkeley, University of California Press, 2023. Reviewed by Sylvain Maechler
Life against states of emergency: revitalizing treaty relations from Attawapiskat by Sarah Marie Wiebe. Vancouver, BC, University of British Columbia Press, 2023. Reviewed by Hannah Ascough
André Gorz: A Life by Willy Gianinazzi, translated by Chris Turner, London, Seagull Books, 2022. Reviewed by Robert Gottlieb
Democratic Norms of Earth System Governance: Deliberative Politics in the Anthropocene by Walter F. Baber and Robert V. Bartlett (Earth System Governance Project), Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2021. Reviewed by Frederik Pfeiffer
Deliberative Governance for Sustainable Development: An Innovative Solution for Environment, Economy and Society by Franz Lehner, London & New York, Routledge, 2023. Reviewed by Manuel Arias-Maldonado
Pipeline populism: grassroots environmentalism in the twenty-first century by Kai Bosworth, Minneapolis, University of Minnesota, 2022. Reviewed by Deborah Barros Leal Farias
Climate Change and Political Theory by Catriona McKinnon, Cambridge and New Jersey, Polity, 2022. Reviewed by Cristóbal Bellolio
Handbook of Critical Environmental Politics edited by Luigi Pellizzoni, Emanuele Leonardi, and Viviana Asara, Cheltenham, Edward Elgar, 2022. Reviewed by Heather Alberro
Climate Justice in India edited by Prakash Kashwan, Cambridge University Press, 2022. Reviewed by Ajmal Khan A. T.
Climate obstruction: how denial, delay and inaction are heating the planet by Kristoffer Ekberg, Bernhard Forchtner, Martin Hultman and Kristi M. Jylhä, Abingdon/New York: Routledge, 2023 Reviewed by Hauke Dannemann
No other planet: Utopian visions for a climate-changed world by Mathias Thaler, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2022 Reviewed by Joe P.L. Davidson
National climate change acts: the emergence, form and nature of national framework climate legislation edited by Thomas L. Muinzer, Oxford, Hart Publishing, 2020. Reviewed by Zhu Li and Ya-Ru Zhu
Rock | water | life: ecology and humanities for a Decolonial South Africa by Lesley Green, Durham and London, Duke University Press, 2020. Reviewed by Synne Movik
America’s energy gamble: people, economy and planet by Shanti Gamper-Rabindran, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Reviewed by Geoffrey Henderson
Organising responses to climate change: the politics of mitigation, adaptation and suffering by Daniel Nyberg, Christopher Wright and Vanessa Bowden, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Reviewed by David L. Levy
The Politics of Rights of Nature. Strategies for Building a More Sustainable World by Craig M. Kauffman and Pamela L. Martin, Cambridge, Massachusetts, MIT Press, 2021. Reviewed by Mihnea Tănăsescu
The pivotal generation: why we have a moral responsibility to slow climate change right now by Henry Shue, Princeton and Oxford, Princeton University Press, 2022. Reviewed by Francisco Garcia-Gibson
When Fracking Comes to Town: governance, planning, and economic impacts of the US Shale Boom edited by Sabina E. Deitrick and Ilia Murtazashvili, Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 2022. Reviewed by Jonathan M. Fisk
The Bangladesh Environmental Humanities Reader by Samina Luthfa, Mohammad Tanzimuddin Khan, and Munasir Kamal, Lanham, Lexinton Books, 2022 Reviewed by Samia Zaman
Utopianism for a Dying Planet: Life after Consumerism by Gregory Claeys, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2022 Reviewed by David Harnesk
Understanding the rights of nature: a critical introduction by Mihnea Tănăsescu, Bielefeld, transcript Verlag, 2022 Reviewed by Ramon van der Does
The nutmeg’s curse: parables for a planet in crisis by Amitav Ghosh, India, Penguin Allen Lane, 2021 Reviewed by Saswat Samay Das, Ananya Roy Praithar, and Dipra Sarkhel
The performative state: public scrutiny and environmental governance in China by Iza Ding, Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 2022. Reviewed by Jeremy F.G. Moulton
Decolonial ecology: thinking from the Caribbean world by Malcom Ferdinand, translated by Anthony Paul Smith. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2022. Reviewed by Grace Garland
Fugitive Politics: The Struggle For Ecological Sanity by Carl Boggs, Abingdon & New York, Routledge, 2021. Reviewed by Noel Castree
Taiwan’s Green Parties: Alternative Politics in Taiwan by Dafydd Fell, London: Routledge, 2021. Reviewed by Cara Camcastle.
Greening through trade: how American trade policy is linked to environmental protection abroad by Sikina Jinnah and Jean-Frédéric Morin, MIT Press, 2020. Reviewed by Dennis Kolcava.
The new environmental economics: sustainability and justice by Eloi Laurent, Cambridge, UK; Medford, MA, Polity, 2020. Reviewed by Joel Terwilliger