{"product_id":"children-of-a-modest-star-planetary-thinking-for-an-age-of-crises-9781503645905","title":"Children of a Modest Star: Planetary Thinking for an Age of Crises","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA clear-eyed and urgent vision for a new system of political governance to manage planetary issues and their local consequences.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Deadly viruses, climate-changing carbon molecules, and harmful pollutants cross the globe unimpeded by national borders. While the consequences of these flows range across scales, from the planetary to the local, the authority and resources to manage them are concentrated mainly at one level: the nation-state. This profound mismatch between the scale of planetary challenges and the institutions tasked with governing them is leading to cascading systemic failures. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e In the groundbreaking \u003ci\u003eChildren of a Modest Star\u003c\/i\u003e, Jonathan S. Blake and Nils Gilman not only challenge dominant ways of thinking about humanity's relationship to the planet and the political forms that presently govern it, but also present a new, innovative framework that corresponds to our inherently planetary condition. Drawing on intellectual history, political philosophy, and the holistic findings of Earth system science, Blake and Gilman argue that it is essential to reimagine our governing institutions in light of the fact that we can only thrive if the multi-species ecosystems we inhabit are also flourishing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Aware of the interlocking challenges we face, it is no longer adequate merely to critique our existing systems or the modernist assumptions that helped create them. Blake and Gilman propose a bold, original architecture for global governance--what they call planetary subsidiarity--designed to enable the enduring habitability of the Earth for humans and non-humans alike. \u003ci\u003eChildren of a Modest Star\u003c\/i\u003e offers a clear-eyed and urgent vision for constructing a system capable of stabilizing a planet in crisis.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJonathan S. Blake\u003c\/b\u003e is the Director of the Planetary Program at the Berggruen Institute. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eContentious Rituals: Parading the Nation in Northern Ireland\u003c\/i\u003e (2019). \u003cb\u003eNils Gilman\u003c\/b\u003e is Senior Advisor to the Berggruen Institute and Deputy Editor of \u003ci\u003eNoema\u003c\/i\u003e magazine. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eMandarins of the Future: Modernization Theory in Cold War America\u003c\/i\u003e (2004).\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52141477921042,"sku":"9781503645905","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_c9fe0c5e-db0b-4858-b5b5-8abae12556e6.jpg?v=1774451523","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/children-of-a-modest-star-planetary-thinking-for-an-age-of-crises-9781503645905","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}