Eric Sarmiento, Catharina Landström, Sarah Whatmore, Biopolitics, discipline, and hydro-citizenship: Drought management and water governance in England (2019) Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 44 (2), pp. 361-375. https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12288 Abstract In this paper we argue that English drought management rests on two imaginaries of hydrocitizenship: an economic/instrumental imaginary that frames people primarily as “customers,” …
Maher, R., Valenzuela, F., Böhm, S. The Enduring State: An analysis of governance-making in three mining conflicts (2019) Organization Studies, 40 (8), pp. 1169-1191. DOI: 10.1177/0170840619847724 Abstract This article investigates the profound ambiguity of the state in the organization of contemporary business–society relations. On the one hand, there has been a decisive shift from government …
Ítala Nepomuceno, Hugo Affonso, James Angus Fraser, Maurício Torres, Counter-conducts and the green grab: Forest peoples’ resistance to industrial resource extraction in the Saracá-Taquera National Forest, Brazilian Amazonia (2019) Global Environmental Change, 56, pp. 124-133. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2019.04.004 Abstract This paper contributes to the theory of environmentality – the ‘conduct of conduct’ with regard to the environment …
Danielle Ringer, Courtney Carothers, Rachel Donkersloot, Jesse Coleman, Paula Cullenberg,For generations to come? The privatization paradigm and shifting social baselines in Kodiak, Alaska’s commercial fisheries (2018) Marine Policy, 98, pp. 97-103. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2018.09.009 Abstract This paper presents results from a study that explored a key threat to fisheries sustainability in Alaska – the graying of the …
Bresnihan, P. Revisiting neoliberalism in the oceans: Governmentality and the biopolitics of ‘improvement’ in the Irish and European fisheries (2019) Environment and Planning A, 51 (1), pp. 156-177. DOI: 10.1177/0308518X18803110 Abstract Foucault’s account of the emergence of biopolitics in the late 18th century helps frame the political economy of ‘improvements’ as an environmental project linked …
Valladares, C., Boelens, R. Mining for Mother Earth. Governmentalities, sacred waters an nature’s rights in Ecuador (2019) Geoforum, 100, pp. 68-79. DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2019.02.009 Abstract Getting public opinion to see ‘mining’ and ‘Nature’s Rights’ as non-contradictory and even equivalent and harmonious, calls for far-reaching power strategies. Nature was entitled to rights by Ecuador’s Constitution at about …
Asiyanbi, A.P., Ogar, E., Akintoye, O.A. Complexities and surprises in local resistance to neoliberal conservation: Multiple environmentalities, technologies of the self and the poststructural geography of local engagement with REDD+ (2019) Political Geography, 69, pp. 128-138. DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2018.12.008 Abstract Actual local engagement with neoliberal conservation is remarkably complex and dynamic. This article advances a poststructural …
Janaka Siyambalapitiya, Xu Zhangand Xiaobing Liu, Is governmentality the missing link for greening the economic growth? (2018) Sustainability (Switzerland), 10 (11), art. no. 4204. https://doi.org/10.3390/su10114204 Abstract The new concept of “green growth” appears to be an economic growth model, which balances environment sustainability and fostering of economic growth. Yet, much of the green growth research …
Nieuwenhuis, M. Atmospheric governance: Gassing as law for the protection and killing of life (2018) Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 36 (1), pp. 78-95. DOI: 10.1177/0263775817729378 Abstract Breathing is the activity which all forms of animated life share in common. The breath has been symbolised across cultures as the meaning of life itself. …
Erol, A.E. Queer contestation of neoliberal and heteronormative moral geographies during #occupygezi (2018) Sexualities, 21 (3), pp. 428-445. DOI: 10.1177/1363460717699768 Abstract During the summer of 2013, Turkey witnessed the largest protest movement in the history of the republic. The protests began with environmentalist concerns to save a public park in central Istanbul, Gezi Park, from …
