1st Edition

Post-Carbon Futures Imagining (and Enacting) New Worlds through Transition Studies

Edited By Anna Willow, Bürge Abiral Copyright 2026
360 Pages 14 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

360 Pages 14 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Post-Carbon Futures: Imagining (and Enacting) New Worlds through Transition Studies explores the multitude of possibilities for conceiving and creating fulfilling post-carbon ways of life. Offering diverse perspectives and abundant empirical examples, this robust volume sheds new light on how complex ecological, economic, and political factors contour processes of conscious cultural change.... Read more

List of Contributors

 

Foreword by Arturo Escobar

           

Transition Studies: An Introduction

Bürge Abiral and Anna Willow

 

Chapter 1

Transitions Beyond Crisis: Emergence and Temporality in Collective Worldmaking

Tristan Partridge

 

Chapter 2

Relationality and Presently Unimaginable Transitions

Michal Osterweil, with Arturo Escobar and Kriti Sharma

 

Chapter 3

“Changing Our Culture”: The Transition Movement and Cultural Transformation

Anna Willow

 

Chapter 4

Unpackaged Stores and Cultural Transition

Petra Kuppinger

 

Chapter 5

Who Gets to Farm? Reshaping Just Transitions in (Agri)culture

Ana Fochesatto

 

Chapter 6

Justified or Unjustified Transition to Post-Coal Power Production? Unraveling Necropolitics in Taiwan’s Solar Energy Transition Protests 

Herlin Chien

 

Chapter 7

Fostering a Circular Economy Transition in Bangkok: A Learning Journey

Istvan Rado and Pareena Prayukvong

 

Chapter 8

Gendering Just Transition: How Back-to-the-Landers in Turkey Perpetuate Gender Inequality

Bürge Abiral

 

Chapter 9

Navigating 21st-Century Nepantla Classrooms: Land-based Ethnic Studies Toward Transition

Roman Sanchez

 

Chapter 10

“It’s Not Very Liverpool, Is It?” T/transition Initiatives in a Post-Industrial City

Peter North

 

Chapter 11

The Transit of Transition: Three Conditions

Dana E. Powell

 

Chapter 12

Emergency Transition or Decolonization? Historical Contradictions of a Neocolonial Satellite State

Sourayan Mookerjea

 

Chapter 13

One Cauca River, Many Worlds: Transitioning Toward Pluriversal Territorial Peace

Diana A. Bernal, Maria Campo, Arturo Escobar, Olga Eusse, and Carlos Rodríguez Aristizábal, with the Tapestry of Transitioners of the Upper Cauca Valley 

 

Chapter 14

Design and Futures Anthropologies for Transitions: Reframing the Journey to Net Zero

Sarah Pink, Emma Quilty, Darren Sharp, Rob Raven, and Dion Tuckwell

 

Chapter 15

Transition Design: Resolving Wicked Problems to Catalyze Multi-Scalar Sustainability Transitions 

Terry Irwin and Gideon Kossoff

 

Chapter 16

Imagining the Future of Transition Studies: A Concluding Conversation

Convened by Anna Willow and Bürge Abiral, with all Post-Carbon Futures contributors

Biography

Anna Willow is Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Ohio State University, USA.

Bürge Abiral is a President's Postdoctoral Scholar in the Department of Anthropology and the Middle East Studies Center at Ohio State University, USA.