Jonathan Paul Marshall is a senior research associate for the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia.Linda H. Connor is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Sydney, Australia.

• Introduction: Ecologies, ontologies and mythologies of possible futures Part 1 Intellectual and speculative engagements with ecological change 1. Towards an anthropology of the future: visions of a future world in the era of climate change 2. The first draft of the future: journalism in the ‘Age of the Anthropocene’ 3. Ecological complexity and the ethics of disorder Part 2 The politics of engagement 4. Futures of governance: ecological challenges and policy myths in tuna Fisheries 5. The work of waste-making: biopolitical labour and the myth of the global city 6. From Sociological Imagination to ‘ecological imagination’: Another Future is Possible Part 3 Environmental change in specific places and cultures 7. Indigenous ontologies and developmentalism: analysis of the National Consultations for the Kiribati Adaptation Program 8. When climate change is not the concern: realities and futures of environmental change in village Nepal 9. Ontologies and ecologies of hardship: past and future governance in the Central Australian arid zone 10. From good meat to endangered species: indigenising nature in Australia’s Western Desert and in Germany’s Ruhr District Part 4 Body and psyche 11. Climate change imaginings and Depth Psychology: reconciling present and future worlds 12. What wrecks reveal 13. Emergent ontologies: natural scepticism, weather certitudes and moral futures Part 5 Technological mythology 14. Official optimism in the face of an uncertain future: Swedish reactions to climate change threats 15. Geo-engineering, imagining and the problem cycle: a cultural complex in action 16. The creation to come: pre-empting the evolution of the bioeconomy