ABSTRACT
This chapter is an exploration of the role that political theorists might play in interdisciplinary research projects about planetary futures. It explores the possibilities for broadly interdisciplinary knowledge about planetary futures, with a particular eye on the role that political theorists might play. The promise of the Anthropocene idea, is that it might lower the barriers to meaningful collaborations between natural scientists, social scientists, and humanists, precisely because the terrain of study has been understood as inherently interdisciplinary. There is a case to be made that fundamental disagreement about the goals or even the nature of the vocation itself is characteristic of political theory today. The context and location for one’s academic training and professional life matters. It shouldn’t be surprising that political theorists have much to offer when the conversation turns to the need to open up political space for challenges to dominant “solutions.”.
