Jonathan Saha, Colonizing Animals. Interspecies Empire in Myanmar. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Book description Animals were vital to the British colonization of Myanmar. In this pathbreaking history of British imperialism in Myanmar from the early nineteenth century to 1942, Jonathan Saha argues that animals were impacted and transformed by colonial subjugation. By examining the …
Greer, K., King, H., Glackin, M. ‘Standing back’ or ‘stepping up’? Exploring climate change education policy influence in England (2023) British Educational Research Journal DOI: 10.1002/berj.3888 Abstract This paper explores the nature of climate change education-related policy influence in England at a time when public consciousness about the need to accelerate climate change action was …
Servalli, S., Gitto, A., Gandelli, F. Florence flood and the rescue of the Florence state archives: The role of accounting and accountability (2023) Accounting History DOI: 10.1177/10323732231175711 Abstract This archival research aims to explore the role of accounting for natural disasters. It is focused on the 1966 Florence flood. Considering the role of Florence in …
materiali foucaultiani, volume X, numero 19-20 (gennaio-dicembre 2021) Open access SOMMARIO L’ambiente del governo. Biopolitica ed ecologia politica a cura di Andrea Angelini, Orazio Irrera, Benedetta Piazzesi Introduzione. La biopolitica e il clima della storia (pp. 5-18) Andrea Angelini, Orazio Irrera, Benedetta Piazzesi Gouvernementalité et écologie (pp. 19-44) Emanuele Leonardi, Luigi Pellizzoni L’impasse de l’antinaturalisme …
Anfinson, K. Capture or Empowerment: Governing Citizens and the Environment in the European Renewable Energy Transition (2023) American Political Science Review, 117 (3), pp. 927-939. DOI: 10.1017/S0003055422001034 Abstract The European renewable energy transition is a leading model for responding to the urgent threat of climate change, which it does by empowering citizens. Drawing on Foucault’s …
Palgrave Handbook of Critical Posthumanism Editors: Stefan Herbrechter, Ivan Callus, Manuela Rossini, Marija Grech, Megen de Bruin-Molé, Christopher John Müller, Lving Reference Work, Palgrave, 2020 About this book Presents a comprehensive view of posthumanism, the posthuman and their genealogies. Critically discusses important strands and issues raised within the discourse of posthumanism. Highlights the ways in …
M. Cecilia Oliveira, Leandro Siqueira, Digitalization between environmental activism and counter-activism: The case of satellite data on deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon, Earth System Governance, Volume 12, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.esg.2022.100135. (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589811622000040) Open access Abstract: This paper analyzes the uses of digital satellite data on deforestation in the Amazon region, drawing on poststructuralist studies of scientific knowledge …
Paul Rutherford, The Problem of Nature in Contemporary Social Theory, PhD thesis, Australian National University, 2000 Abstract This work examines the ways in which the relationship between society and nature is problematic for social theory. The Frankfurt School’s notion of the dialectic of enlightenment is considered, as are the attempts by Jurgen Habermas to defend …
Mulberg, Jon. “The Challenge of Environmental Governance: Ecology and the Need for a Heterodox Political Economy.” The Journal of Australian Political Economy, no. 80 (2017): 129–54. https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.308610660985029. Extracts AThis article will investigate the problem of environmental governance. It will question the scientific status of the discipline of economics, and suggest that economics is best viewed …
Carol Carpenter, Power in Conservation. Environmental Anthropology Beyond Political Ecology, Routledge, 2020 Book Description This book examines theories and ethnographies related to the anthropology of power in conservation. Conservation thought and practice is power laden—conservation thought is powerfully shaped by the history of ideas of nature and its relation to people, and conservation interventions govern …
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