The planetary
How should societies deal with planetary forces beyond human control, from induced seismicity to space weather?
What might politics look like if the Earth itself could participate in it?
Frederic Hanusch · Professor of Planetary Change and Politics · Justus Liebig University Giessen
My research explores how the humanities and social sciences engage with planetary change, and how planetary politics can be analyzed and designed.
Event · Forthcoming 2026
Our Planetary Condition · MIT Press
Three lines of inquiry
More on the researchSocieties do not live on but are part of a planet. As the planet is ever-changing, so too are the relations societies create with it.
Time
Human societies increasingly interact with processes on geological or even cosmic timescales. How can planetary temporalities be institutionalized politically?
Democracy
Some democracies deal with planetary change better than others. What would a democracy look like that includes nonhuman earthlings?
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Frederic Hanusch is Professor of Planetary Change and Politics at Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany. He is co-founder of the university's Panel on Planetary Thinking and co-convener of the Earth System Governance Project's Working Group on Democracy. He was recently appointed to the British Academy and Carnegie Endowment for International Peace working group on Transnational and Planetary Challenges.
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frederic.hanusch@Justus Liebig University Giessen · Panel on Planetary Thinking · Liebigstraße 35 · 35392 Gießen · Germany