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 …
Teresa Lloro-Bidart, Neoliberal and disciplinary environmentality and ‘sustainable seafood’ consumption: storying environmentally responsible action (2017) Environmental Education Research, 23 (8), pp. 1182-1199. https://doi.org/10.1080/13504622.2015.1105198 Abstract This article invokes a neoliberal and disciplinary governmentality lens in a political ecology of education framework to analyze educational programming at Long Beach, California’s Aquarium of the Pacific. I begin by …
Jen Bagelman, Sarah Marie Wiebe, Intimacies of global toxins: Exposure & resistance in ‘Chemical Valley’(2017) Political Geography, 60, pp. 76-85. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2017.04.007 Abstract This paper examines the geopolitics of the Aamjiwnaang First Nation’s reserve, situated in a toxic petrochemical complex known as Canada’s ‘Chemical Valley.’ While this reserve holds the perilous title of worst air-pollution in …
Teresa Lloro-Bidart and Keri Semenko, Toward a feminist ethic of self-care for environmental educators (2017) Journal of Environmental Education, 48 (1), pp. 18-25. https://doi.org/10.1080/00958964.2016.1249324 Abstract Feminist theory and philosophy have examined how dominant ideologies oppress women, nonhuman animals, and the environment. Feminist scholars also have begun to discuss how neoliberalism problematically re-inscribes women as the …
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