Environmentality By Shaunna Barnhart This post is part of the Discard Studies Compendium, a keyword text. Environmentality is a term used to describe an approach to understanding complex interplays of power in environmental governance of human-environment interactions. It builds on philosopher Michel Foucault’s concept of governmentality developed in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Governmentality argues that …
A review of Projective Ecologies, edited by Chris Reed and Nina-Marie Lister. 2014. Second edition 2020. ISBN: 1940291127. ACTAR, Harvard Graduate School of Design. 314 pages. Review by Anne Trumble Several months ago, I reviewed Landscape Imagination, a collection of essays by James Corner, a professor at University of Pennsylvania and the landscape architect who designed New …
Ben Mylius, “Towards the Unthinkable: Earth Jurisprudence and an Ecocentric Episteme” (2013) 38 Australian Journal of Legal Philosophy 102-122 Full text available Abstract This paper argues that Earth Jurisprudence aims to bring about a change in episteme, using the law, from our current anthropocentric episteme to a new ecocentric one: a process that requires a …
Hanna, P., Johnson, K., Stenner, P., Adams, M. Foucault, sustainable tourism, and relationships with the environment (human and nonhuman) (2015) GeoJournal, 80 (2), pp. 301-314. DOI: 10.1007/s10708-014-9557-7 Abstract Drawing on contemporary research into ethical consumption and sustainable tourism this article starts by outlining the ways in which sustainable tourism (and other forms of ethical consumption) …
Connor J. Cavanagh Biopolitics, Environmental Change, and Development Studies, Forum for Development Studies, Vol. 41, Iss. 2, 2014, 273-294 https://doi.org/10.1080/08039410.2014.901243 Abstract This article proposes a Foucaultian, yet more-than-human, conceptual framework for scholars of both international development and biopolitics in our current historical–geographical conjuncture: the ostensibly nascent Anthropocene. Under these conditions, it is argued that biopower …
Bruce P Braun, A new urban dispositif? governing life in an age of climate change (2014) Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 32 (1), pp. 49-64. https://doi.org/10.1068/d4313 Abstract In an interview in 1977 Michel Foucault proposed the term dispositif for a heterogeneous set of discourses, practices, architectural forms, regulations, laws, and knowledges connected together …
Gabrys, J. Programming environments: Environmentality and citizen sensing in the smart city (2014) Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 32 (1), pp. 30-48. Abstract A new wave of smart-city projects is underway that proposes to deploy sensor-based ubiquitous computing across urban infrastructures and mobile devices to achieve greater sustainability. But in what ways do …
Elizabeth Povinelli – The Four Figures of the Anthropocene Center for 21st Century Studies Published on Apr 23, 2014 As is known, although his histories of sexuality would consume much of his final life, Michel Foucault was not interested in sexuality in and of itself but only in relation to how it entangled itself in …
Life and Debt: Living through the Financialisation of the Biosphere Philip Mirowski keynote for ‘Life and Debt’ conference Comments on Foucault at around the 14 minute mark Published on Aug 18, 2013 Update September 2025: This lecture is no longer on YouTube. The link above is to the archived page on the Wayback machine How …
Joachim Radkau, Nature and power: An intimate and ambiguous connection (2013) Social Science History, 37 (3), pp. 325-345. https://doi.org/10.1215/01455532-2209402 Abstract Nature and Power is to be understood not only as human power against nature but also as power by nature in the sense of Michel Foucault’s biopouvoir (biopower) or Francis Bacon’s “Naturae non imperator nisi …
Foucault News 