Joe P. L. Davidson (Warwick) has just published a generous and insightful review of No Other Planet in Environmental Politics. Here is an excerpt: “Thaler’s innovative methodological framework and judiciously analysed examples effectively and powerfully demonstrate the value of thinking speculative fiction, political theory, and climate change together. The study, with this constellation of elements,…

Jeffrey Church just had me on his consistently excellent Political Theory podcast. The new episode on No Other Planet can be found here: https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/thepoliticaltheoryreview/episodes/2023-05-16T09_27_38-07_00

My new paper “Eco-miserabilism and Radical Hope” has just been published (online first) in the American Political Science Review. A link to the Open Access version can be found here: “Eco-Miserabilism and Radical Hope: On the Utopian Vision of Post-Apocalyptic Environmentalism.” American Political Science Review, 2023 (online first), 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1017/S000305542300031X. The abstract is here: Eco-miserabilism—the…

My paper “Environmental commemoration: Guiding principles and real-world cases” (co-authored with Mihaela Mihai) has been accepted for publication in Memory Studies. A pre-print can be downloaded from academia.edu. The abstract is below: “Addressing the political implications of the ever-accumulating destruction of ecosystems and more-than-human life, this paper asks whether and in what ways environmental losses…

Louisa Hann, from the New Books Network, just did a conversation with me on No Other Planet. The full interview can be found here: https://newbooksnetwork.com/no-other-planet

There will be a launch of my new book No Other Planet on November 23, 2022, at 3pm in the Chrystal Macmillan Building, University of Edinburgh. More information on this event can be found here:

My book No Other Planet has now finally been published, after some lengthy delays. Check out the publisher’s website: www.cambridge.org/9781009015653 For a 20% discount, enter the following code at the checkout: THALER22

My review of S. D. Chrostowska’s new book Utopia in the Age of Survival has just appeared (online first) in the Review of Politics. You can find the link to the text here.