Amelia Melbourne-Hayward, Temporary environments | Architecture Now, 22 August 2016 Young New Zealand artist Jillian Whitmore explores the intersection between art and architecture with her translucent watercolours. Whitmore will be exhibiting a solo exhibition titled Juncture at the Fine Arts Whanganui Gallery, opening Friday 26 August 2016. Here, she speaks with Amelia Melbourne-Hayward about her …
Dolly Jørgensen, Rethinking rewilding (2015) Geoforum, 65, pp. 482-488. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2014.11.016 Abstract The term ‘rewilding’ sounds as if it should have a straightforward meaning ‘to make wild again’. But in truth the term has a complex history and a host of meanings have been ascribed to it. Rewilding as a specific scientific term has its beginnings …
Paul Bruce Mcilvenny, Julia Zhukova Klausen, Laura Bang Lindegaard, (Eds.) (2016). Studies of Discourse and Governmentality: New Perspectives and Methods. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. This volume brings together analyses of governmentality from different angles in order to explore the multiple forms, practices, modes, programmes and rationalities of the ‘conduct of conduct’ today. Following the publication of …
Jutter Haider, The Shaping of Environmental Information in Social Media: Affordances and Technologies of Self-control (2016) Environmental Communication, 10 (4), pp. 473-491. https://doi.org/10.1080/17524032.2014.993416 Abstract This article studies environmental information as it circulates in social media, specifically in personal blogs and microblogs. It rests on a thematic analysis of a selection of Swedish language, personal, everyday …
Ylva Uggla and Rolf Lidskog, Climate risks and forest practices: forest owners’ acceptance of advice concerning climate change (2016) Scandinavian Journal of Forest Research, 31 (6), pp. 618-625. https://doi.org/10.1080/02827581.2015.1134648 Abstract Based on qualitative interviews with Swedish forest owners this study focuses on climate change, risk management and forest governance from the perspective of the forest …
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 …
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