BOOKS
HANUSCH, LEGGEWIE & BAUER
THE PLANETARY CONDITION
work in progress: under contract with Cambridge University Press
We aim to develop the notion of an emerging paradigm which we call “planetary thinking”. Within Earth System Governance research, the notion of the planetary is used widely, ranging from planetary justice to planetary earth law. Yet, we miss a conceptualization that outlines the “planet” as a category distinct from often interchangeably used notions of “earth”, “globe” or “world”. Our Element aims to change this. Planetary thinking depicts the widened worldview that is beginning to take shape: a new, transgressive form of thought which we trace in its development, systematize, exemplify and discuss with regard to its potential consequences for societal and political action.
HANUSCH & KATSMAN (EDS.)
SEEDS FOR DEMOCRATIC FUTURES
work in progress: under contract with transcript
Seeds for Democratic Futures offers thought-provoking and policy-relevant approaches to democratizing contemporary states and societies. From the theoretical to the hands-on, law to social movements, digitization to ecology, this book covers a range of areas, inspiring readers to renew democracy.
HANUSCH 2023
THE POLITICS OF DEEP TIME
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Human societies increasingly interact with processes on a geological or even cosmic timescale. Yet despite this vague recognition of strong temporal interdependencies, we still lack basic understanding of these interconnections and how they translate into politics. I therefore provide an exploration and systematization of what I call “the politics of deep time” as a novel lens of planetary politics in three steps. First, I demonstrate why deep-time interactions make the politics of deep time essential, second, I ask how deep time is and should be politicized and, third, explicate the politics of deep time by examining representative cases. As a result, I formulate a conceptual framework to opening up possibilities for alliances that seek to better understand and realize the politics of deep time. This book thus pioneers a debate on how planetary temporalities can be politically institutionalized.
HANUSCH, LEGGEWIE & MEYER 2021
PLANETAR DENKEN: EIN EINSTIEG
Bielefeld: transcript.
In this German book it is shown that planetary thinking means taking the Earth seriously as a planet: from the Earth's core to interplanetary space, from the nanosecond to deep time, from elementary particles to the Earth's mass. If interactions between our home planet and us are in the center, a planetary knowledge paradigm takes shape. It goes along with the relationing of human existence in the universe and the relativization of the anthropocentric view. Thus, questions of habitability and hospitality come to the fore - and the creation of new knowledge always means the creation of new worlds.
HANUSCH 2018
DEMOCRACY AND CLIMATE CHANGE
London/New York: Routledge
Democracy and Climate Change explores the various ways in which democratic principles can lead governments to respond differently to climate change. The election cycle can lead to short-termism, which often appears to be at odds with the long-term nature of climate change, with its latency between cause and effect. However, it is clear that some democracies deal with climate change better than others, and this book demonstrates that overall stronger democratic qualities tend to correlate with improved climate performance.
ARTICLES & CHAPTERS
HANUSCH
THE UNITED TIMES: A THOUGHT EXPERIMENT FOR PLANETARY LAW
work in progress for publication in: Kotzé, Louis (ed.): Law and Planet Earth - Exploring New Frontiers in Earth System Law. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
HANUSCH
PLANETARY DEMOCRACY
to be published in Hanusch & Katsman (eds.): Seeds for Democratic Futures. Bielefeld: transcript.
HANUSCH & KATSMAN
INTRODUCTION
to be published in Hanusch & Katsman (eds.): Seeds for Democratic Futures. Bielefeld: transcript.
LEGGEWIE & HANUSCH
AGENDA
in Wallenhorst & Wulf (eds.): Handbook of the Anthropocene. Springer: Cham, 1577-1581. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-25910-4_256
LEGGEWIE & HANUSCH
THOUGHT
in Wallenhorst & Wulf (eds.): Handbook of the Anthropocene. Springer: Cham, 485-490. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-25910-4_76
PAULS, OPPELT, WEBER, HUNI KUI, LEGGEWIE, HANUSCH, BAUER, HARTL, FINKELSTEIN, CHAKRABARTY, MENDOZA & SCHREURS 2022
DAS PLANTEARISCHE POLITISCH(E) DENKEN
Politische Vierteljahresschrift/German Political Science Quarterly. 63:4, 703-728. DOI: 10.1007/s11615-022-00433-3
HANUSCH & MEISCH 2022
THE TEMPORAL CLEAVAGE: THE CASE OF POPULIST RETROTOPIA VS. CLIMATE EMERGENCY
Environmental Politics. 31:5, 883-903, DOI: 10.1080/09644016.2022.2044691
HANUSCH 2021
EMBEDDEDNESS AS AN INTEGRATIVE QUALITY ASSESSMENT TOOL FOR STUDENT-CENTERED EXTRACURRICULAR STUDIES
HINT – Heidelberg Inspirations for Innovative Teaching. 2:2, 93-117. DOI: 10.11588/hint.2021.1.84509
ASENBAUM & HANUSCH 2021
(DE)FUTURING DEMOCRACY: LABS, PLAYGROUNDS, AND ATELIERS AS DEMOCRATIC INNOVATIONS
Futures. Volume 134, December 2021, 102836. DOI: 10.1016/j.futures.2021.102836
HANUSCH & SCHAD 2021
HYDROGEN RESEARCH: TECHNOLOGY FIRST, SOCIETY SECOND?
GAIA – Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society. 30:2, 82-86. DOI: 10.14512/gaia.30.2.5
HANUSCH 2020
DEMOKRATIE UND KLIMAWANDEL
Demokratie gegen Menschenfeindlichkeit. 5:2, 18-21.
HANUSCH & BIERMANN 2020
DEEP-TIME ORGANIZATIONS: LEARNING INSTITUTIONAL LONGEVITY FROM HISTORY
The Anthropocene Review. 7:1, 19-41. DOI: 10.1177/2053019619886670
LEGGEWIE, HANUSCH, SCHMITT & REICHER 2016
EINLEITUNG
in Leggewie, Reicher & Schmitt (eds.): Geschichten einer Region. AgentInnen des Wandels für ein nachhaltiges Ruhrgebiet. Dortmund: Kettler, 8-17.
HANUSCH 2015
THE ROLE OF NORMS FOR U.S. FOREIGN CLIMATE POLICY
in Sommer (ed.): Cultural Dynamics of Climate Change and the Environment in Northern America, Leiden/Boston: Brill, 77-105. DOI: 10.1163/9789004300712_005
HANUSCH 2014
ZUR FEINDSCHAFT ZWISCHEN ERKENNTNISFORTSCHRITT UND PLAGIARISMUS
Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft (ZPol) 23:4, 627-638. DOI: 10.5771/1430-6387-2013-4-627
HANUSCH & MÜNGERSDORFF 2012
KARL POLANYI: THE GREAT TRANSFORMATION
in: Leggewie, Zifonun, Lang, Siepmann & Hoppen (eds.): Schlüsselwerke der Kulturwissenschaften, Bielefeld: transcript, 274-276.
HANUSCH, MÜNGERSDORFF & VOSS 2012
KLIMAWANDEL ALS CHANCE FÜR MEHR DEMOKRATIE
in: Kirchlicher Herausgeberkreis Jahrbuch Gerechtigkeit (eds.): Jahrbuch Gerechtigkeit V. Menschen, Klima, Zukunft, Glashütten: C & P Verlagsgesellschaft, 130-137.
FISCHER, HANUSCH, HÖRISCH, LÖW, RAECKE, SCHÖNEBORN & ZECH 2010
ÖKOSOZIAL IST SEXY - ÜBER DIE SOZIALE DIMENSION DER UMWELTPOLITIK
Neue Gesellschaft Frankfurter Hefte 57:5, 44-47.
POLICY REPORTS
WBGU (CO-AUTHOR) 2016
DEVELOPMENT AND JUSTICE THROUGH TRANSFORMATION: THE FOUR BIG ‘I’S
Berlin: WBGU
2015 saw a historic double success for sustainability and climate policy. The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, with its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and the Paris Agreement on climate protection establish a system of ambitious policy goals for the world. The group of twenty major industrialized and emerging economies (G20) now needs to resolutely advance implementation of both agreements, seizing the opportunity of this ‘Great Transformation’ to sustainability as a unique modernization project that offers substantial economic development opportunities. Complete decarbonization of the world economy by 2070 at the latest can only be achieved by profoundly transforming energy systems and other high-emissions infrastructures. This transformation could inspire Innovation and channel Investment into sustainability and climate protection, e.g. into sustainable Infrastructures that need to be established and expanded. At the same time, the transformation could combat inequality and promote Inclusion within societies and globally, thus becoming an equity project. The G20, as a central global actor, should specifically promote the Four Big ‘I’s of sustainability and climate policy to ensure that conflicts over resources and their distribution are defused and international crises avoided. Sustainable development, and in particular global climate protection, is currently the only ambitious undertaking that involves all the world’s nations and resulted in a global consensus. Achievements in this enormous, complex policy field enable countries to establish mutual trust, making the ‘Great Transformation’ to sustainability also a peace project.
WBGU (CO-AUTHOR) 2016
HUMANITY ON THE MOVE: UNLOCKING THE TRANSFORMATIVE POWER OF CITIES.
Berlin: WBGU
What kind of homes should people live in? Where can they settle? How close may their neighbours encroach on them? These questions are as old as our civilization, but in the 21st century they are being asked in a new way. Because this century is characterized by a contradiction dynamic that eclipses much of our previous experience of social change: rapidly growing populations in many developing countries versus shrinking populations in some industrialized countries; the enrichment of tiny elites versus the ongoing economic marginalization of the majority; guarded luxury real estate surrounded by squalid, poor neighbourhoods in many megacities; improved access to basic supplies and services for billions of Earth dwellers, while at the same time their long-term life-support systems are being destroyed by resource looting, climate change and environmental pollution. The present report outlines the special challenges and opportunities faced in this century by cities from the perspective of the necessary transformation towards sustainability. One characteristic feature of the debate on the search for solutions is the enormous diversity of instruments and solution pathways. Consequently, there can be no blueprint for sustainable urban development.
MÜNGERSDORFF, HANUSCH, SCHAD, SCHMITT, SCHÖNBORN, SIEPMANN & VOSS 2015
BUILDING EUROPE‘S (ENERGY) FUTURE. A MANIFESTO FOR A EUROPEAN COMMUNITY FOR ENERGY TRANSITION.
Essen: Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (KWI)
ECET – The European Community for Energy Transition is a vision for an Energy Union which represents an approach directed at transforming Europe into a community that overcomes national borders and deepens democracy. With this new approach to an integrated energy policy we propose the vision of a new community in addition to already existing EU structures. ECET does not aim at replacing those structures but provides space for new ideas and possibilities especially on behalf of the belief in a “generalisation of interests” by finding “solutions without borders”.
WBGU (CO-AUTHOR) 2014
CLIMATE PROTECTION AS A WORLD CITIZEN MOVEMENT.
Berlin: WBGU
The 5th Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) makes it unmistakeably clear: unacceptable climatic consequences, which are likely to escalate beyond the 2°C guard rail, can only be avoided if further increases in greenhouse-gas concentrations are halted as soon as possible. The WBGU therefore recommends reducing CO2 emissions from fossil fuels to zero by 2070 at the latest. This policy goal is both ambitious and incisive, because 'the zero target must be reached' by every country, every municipality, every company and every citizen if the world as a whole is to become climate-neutral. However, the 2°C line can only be held if a large proportion of stakeholders – especially the OECD countries – start reducing their emissions much earlier. Global society as a whole has only a very limited carbon budget at its disposal; emissions should therefore peak by 2020 if possible, or in the third decade at the latest. In this report the WBGU outlines a two-pronged strategy for global climate protection based on interaction between multilateralism and civil society. To achieve this, on the one hand the Paris Climate Agreement targeted for late 2015 should exhibit certain characteristics set out by the WBGU. In particular, a process should be agreed to ensure compliance with the 2°C guard rail. On the other hand, all social actors should make their specific contributions towards decarbonization. In this way, an intricate responsibility architecture for the future of our planet can emerge in which vertical delegating and horizontal engagement are not contradictions, but complementary factors that reinforce each other.
WBGU (CO-AUTHOR) 2014
HUMAN PROGRESS WITHIN PLANETARY GUARD RAILS. A CONTRIBUTION TO THE SDG DEBATE.
Berlin: WBGU
The year 2015 has special importance for the transformation towards sustainable development. New Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are then supposed to replace the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The aim is to offer a new orientation for political action in the coming decades. The WBGU recommends orienting the new catalogue of goals towards the key message of the 1992 Earth Summit: that development and environmental protection must be considered together and do not contradict each other. The SDGs should not be reduced to poverty eradication, but must address all dimensions of sustainable development. In particular, global environmental change must be incorporated, otherwise even poverty eradication will become impossible. Up to now, too little attention has been paid to this link in the ongoing discourse on SDGs. Although many reports mention the concept of planetary guard rails or planetary boundaries, they do not back this up with specific targets. The WBGU presents recommendations on how guard rails for global environmental problems should be incorporated in the SDG catalogue and operationalized by means of corresponding targets.
