Eloise Govier, Power and all its guises. Environmental determinism and locating ‘the crux of the matter’ (2020) Archaeological Dialogues, 27 (2), pp. 173-176. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1380203820000215 Abstract Can we theorize the relationship between discourses that antagonize each other? In a recent article, Arponen et al. demonstrate the tension between two different research models, and spotlight the compelling …
Cielemęcka, O. Forest futures: biopolitics, purity, and extinction in Europe’s last ‘pristine’ forest (2020) Journal of Gender Studies, 29 (1), pp. 63-75. DOI: 10.1080/09589236.2019.1691981 Abstract This article examines how the ideological and material aspects of ‘purity’ play out in the environmental conflict in the Białowieża Forest that took place in Poland in 2017. I consider …
Fella Benabed, Marine heterotopia and odyssean nomadism in Malika Mokeddem’s N’zid (2020) Journal of North African Studies, 25 (1), pp. 100-115. https://doi.org/10.1080/13629387.2018.1528151 Abstract Malika Mokeddem’s N’zid is a Mediterranean odyssey in which the ship is a heterotopia of emancipation from patriarchal society and dogmatic sedentariness. For Michel Foucault, ‘heterotopia’ is a real place that subverts …
Downey, H., Clune, T. How does the discourse surrounding the Murray Darling Basin manage the concept of entitlement to water? (2020) Critical Social Policy, 40 (1), pp. 108-129. DOI: 10.1177/0261018319837206 Abstract Globally, the challenges of climate change have resulted in significant water policy reform. Australia’s Murray Darling Basin (MDB) Plan is a complex transboundary water …
Jean M. Langford, Avian Bedlam: Toward a Biosemiosis of Troubled Parrots, Environmental Humanities 9:1 (May 2017) DOI 10.1215/22011919-3829145 © 2017 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0). Abstract At an urban parrot sanctuary in the Midwestern USA, humans care for eighty-some parrots from more …
Andrew Dobson, Kezia Barker, Sarah L. Taylor (eds) Biosecurity: The Socio-Politics of Invasive Species and Infectious Diseases, Routledge, 2013 Description Biosecurity is the assessment and management of potentially dangerous infectious diseases, quarantined pests, invasive (alien) species, living modified organisms, and biological weapons. It is a holistic concept of direct relevance to the sustainability of agriculture, …
Hanne Svarstad, Tor A. Benjaminsen, Ragnhild Overå, Power theories in political ecology, Journal of Political Ecology, Vol 25, No 1 (2018) DOI: 10.2458/v25i1.23044 See also article on Researchgate if link above is timing out Open access Abstract Power plays a key role in definitions of political ecology. Likewise, empirical studies within this field tend to …
Stephanie Rutherford (2017). Environmentality and Green Governmentality. In International Encyclopedia of Geography: People, the Earth, Environment and Technology (eds D. Richardson, N. Castree, M.F. Goodchild, A. Kobayashi, W. Liu and R.A. Marston). Wiley https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118786352.wbieg0111 Abstract Environmentality, or green governmentality, offers a way of thinking about how power works through the construction of the environment, its …
Emma Foster, Foucault and Ecology, in Lisa Downing (ed.) After Foucault: Culture, Theory, and Criticism in the 21st Century, Cambridge University Press, 2018 https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316492864.010 Summary A Foucauldian perspective offers a number of interesting and significant insights into the relationship between the cultural representations of ‘Nature’ and the processes of subjectification that underpin environmentalism and ecologism. …
Benjamin K. Sovacool, Marie-Claire Brisbois, Elite power in low-carbon transitions: A critical and interdisciplinary review (2019) Energy Research and Social Science, 57, art. no. 101242, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2019.101242 Abstract Modern energy systems have tended towards centralized control by states, and national and multinational energy companies. This implicates the power of elites in realizing low-carbon transitions. In particular, …
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