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 …
Malin Ideland, Claes Malmberg, Governing ‘eco-certified children’ through pastoral power: critical perspectives on education for sustainable development (2015) Environmental Education Research, 21(2), 173–182 published online Feb 2014 https://doi.org/10.1080/13504622.2013.879696 Abstract This article analyses how ‘eco-certified children’ are constructed as desirable subjects in teaching materials addressing education for sustainable development. We are interested in how discourses structure …
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 …
Andreas Kotsakis, ‘Change and Subjectivity in International Environmental Law: The Micro-Politics of the Transformation of Biodiversity into Genetic Gold’, Transnational Environmental Law 2013. https://www.doi.org/10.1017/S204710251300054X Abstract There is no hope for international environmental law to be an engine for global social change when it can no longer provide a compelling account of itself. This article presents …
Oels, A.(2013), Rendering climate change governable by risk: From probability to contingency Geoforum, 45, pp. 17-29. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2011.09.007 Abstract In this paper, I use Foucault’s concept of governmentality to investigate changes in the risk management of climate change. In an exploratory analysis of primary and secondary sources, I demonstrate that the risk construction of climate change has shifted significantly …
Leffers, D., Ballamingie, P. Governmentality, environmental subjectivity, and urban intensification (2013) Local Environment: The International Journal of Justice and Sustainability, 18 (2), pp. 134-151. https://doi.org/10.1080/13549839.2012.719016 Abstract This article delineates concepts of eco-modernisation and urban sustainability (including its associated discourses), elucidating Foucault’s notion of governmentality and examining select moments of contested urban governance in the neighbourhood …
Singh, N.M. The affective labor of growing forests and the becoming of environmental subjects: Rethinking environmentality in Odisha, India (2013) Geoforum https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2013.01.010 Abstract How do humans come to care for their environment and what turns them into conservationists are central questions in environmental politics. Recent scholars have turned to Foucault’s ideas of “governmentality” to understand …
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