Chapter 1. Tom Scheunemann and Claudia Wiesner: Introduction: Why Democ-racy in the Anthropocene?.- Section I The State of Crisis: Democracy in the Anthropocene.- Chapter 2. Claudia Wiesner: Crisis, Polycrisis, Anthropocene. Democracy Under Pressure.- Chapter 3. Jessica Schmidt: Liberal Awakening and Critical Redemption: Map-ping the Crisis Discourse of Democracy in Anthropocenic Times.- Chapter 4. Wolfgang Merkel and Claudia Wiesner: When Liberal Democracy Allows its Own Decline: Donald Trump and the Crisis of Democratic Liberalism.- Chapter 5. Aristidis V. Agoglossakis Foley: The Death of the Democratic Na-tion? Anthropocene, Technocene, and the Concept of the Network State.- Chapter 6. The Crisis of Liberalism and the Future of Progress. Rahel Jaeggi in conversation with Jan Groos.- Chapter 7. Philip Dingeldey and Dirk Jörke: Towards a Strong Green Republi-canism? On the Crisis of Democracy in the Anthropocene.- Section II Politics and Democracy in the Anthropocene: Epistemic Shifts and Concepts.- Chapter 8. Matthias Klemm: Anthropocene or Societocene? – Social Evolution, Climate Change and the Social Sciences.- Chapter 9. Ayşem Mert, Julia Feine, and Tatiana Sokolova: Eco-political Re-sponses to the Crisis of Democracy: A Critical Fantasy Studies Ap-proach to the Anthropocene.- Chapter 10. Kari Palonen: The Anthropocene Language: A Sign of Politicisation.- Chapter 11. David Chandler: Self-Governance after Representation: The Anthro-pocene and the Politicisation of Everyday Life.- Chapter 12. Caroline von Taysen: Democracy in the Anthropocene – an Irresolv-able Dilemma?.- Chapter 13. Tom Scheunemann: Under the Canopy – Seeking Refuge in the Shad-ows of Anthropocene Forests.- Section III Democracy and Governance Beyond Liberal Modernity: Con-cepts and Approaches.- Chapter 14. Maximilian Lakitsch: Towards a Human-Non-Human Understanding of Political Community: Rediscovering Anthropocene Thinking at the Dawn of Political Modernity.- Chapter 15. Julian Purrmann: Democracy in the Anthropocene: Toward More-than-Human Democratic Innovations.- Chapter 16. Jan Groos: Alternative Environmentality – Three Propositions for Democratic Planning in the Anthropocene.- Chapter 17. Niilo Kauppi and Pasi Heikkurinen: A Paradigm Shift in Democratic Governance? The OECD and the Governance of the Future in an An-ticipated New Geological Epoch.- Chapter 18. Pol Bargués: Post-liberal and Illiberal Peace in the Anthropocene.- Chapter 19. Petteri Repo, Mikhail Bogach, Ilona Kousa, Inês Campos, Päivi Timo-nen, and Mandira Halder: AI and the Anthropocene – LLMs as Dem-ocratic Knowledge Producers.- Section IV Local Practices of Democracy in the Anthropocene: Innova-tions, Challenges and Resistance.- Chapter 20. Jan-Peter Voß and Hagen Schölzel: Gardening Democratic Practices.- Chapter 21. Melisa Ross and Azucena Morán: Governing the Planetary? Demo-cratic Innovations in Latin America.- Chapter 22. Nathaniel Umukoro: The Crisis of Democracy and Environmental Challenges in the Era of Anthropocene: Lessons from Nigeria’s Niger Delta.- Chapter 23. Christiane Kuller: The Anthropocene in Contemporary History? To-wards an Agenda for Local Historical Research in the Age of Authori-tarian Regimes and their Aftermath.- Chapter 24. Grounding the Anthropocene in Local Experience. German History and the Forests of Geisa. Manuela Henkel and Matthias Schorr in conversation with Tom Scheunemann and Claudia Wiesner.- Chapter 25. Lina Bax: Conference Report: Social Contracts and Democracy in Times of the Anthropocene. Thinking Beyond Crisis.- Chapter 26. Claudia Wiesner and Tom Scheunemann: Conclusion: Mission Im-possible? Takeaways from Thinking about Democracy in the Anthro-pocene.
