No Other Planet has been shortlisted for the PSA WJM Mackenzie Prize 2023. The award is given each year to the best book in the entire field of political studies, not just political theory. More information on the other shortlisted nominees can be found here: https://www.psa.ac.uk/psa/news/mackenzie-book-prize-2023/24-shortlist-announced

My paper “Eco-Miserabilism and Radical Hope” is now out in print with the American Political Science Review. You can find it open access here: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-political-science-review/article/ecomiserabilism-and-radical-hope-on-the-utopian-vision-of-postapocalyptic-environmentalism/FC59FF8147EDFAADBBE6097FFBA6EFD8

Eric Ross (University of Massachusetts Amherst) has just published a generous review of book Naming Violence (2018). Here is an excerpt from the insightful text: “In Naming Violence, Mathias Thaler presents a compelling and novel framework to further understand the interdependence between language and our collective conceptualization of political violence. Thaler’s primary intervention is that the…

A new paper of mine has just been published (online first) in New Political Science. The full bibliographic information is here: Thaler, Mathias “Utopia, Breakdown, Repair: Failure and Success in Social Dreaming.” New Political Science, 2023 (online first), 1–17. Abstract: A common charge against utopianism is that any attempt to create blueprints for a better future disregards…

Benjamin L. McKean (Ohio State University) has just published a thoughtful and generous review of No Other Planet in Contemporary Political Theory. An excerpt can be found here: “As this overview suggests, No Other Planet covers an enormous amount of ground, drawing from an admirably wide range of texts and showing an impressive mastery of multiple literatures.…

Ruth Houghton (Newcastle) wrote a generous and insightful review of my new book for Global Policy. Here is an excerpt: “The book is an excellent example of cross-disciplinary work, bringing together political philosophy, insights from literary studies, and environmental humanities. In that respect, No Other Planet is an important work for scholars working across utopian…

My new paper (co-authored with Mihaela Mihai) is now available Open Access (online first) in Memory Studies.You can download it from here: https://doi.org/10.1177/17506980231176037 Here is the abstract: 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 should be publicly commemorated. Our…

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…