Lars Tønder is Professor of Political Science at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He is the author of Tolerance: A Sensorial Orientation to Politics (Oxford University Press, 2013) and co-editor of Radical Democracy: Politics Between Abundance and Lack (Manchester University Press, 2005). His current research interests include climate change, democratic theory, social movements and political contestation.

• List of IllustrationsPrefaceAcknowledgementsChapter 1: Power in the AnthropoceneChapter 2: The sociality of powerChapter 3: The materiality of powerChapter 4: The methods of powerChapter 5: The organization of powerChapter 6: Power and criticism in the AnthropoceneA new materialist glossaryBibliography

Responding to this age of extraordinary human impact on planetary systems, Lars Tønder offers a brilliant blend of new materialism, climate politics, and engaged analyses of power in an attempt to reset the social sciences for the challenge. Power in the Anthropocene is a great critique of the breadth of the ecological blindness of social science, but also a genuinely reconstructive response to the current age of climate turbulence.