Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Earthbound in the Anthropocene -- 2 The Aesthetics of Sovereignty -- 3 Territory -- 4 People -- 5 Scale -- Afterword -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary
Daniel Matthews shows how sovereignty - the organising principle for modern law and politics - depends on a distinctive aesthetics that ensures that we see, feel and order the world in such a way that keeps the realities of climate change and ecological destruction largely 'off stage'