Ralph Tafon, Fred Saunders and Michael Gilek, Re-reading marine spatial planning through Foucault, Haugaard and others: an analysis of domination, empowerment and freedom (2019) Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning, 21 (6), pp. 754-768. https://doi.org/10.1080/1523908X.2019.1673155 Open access Abstract Marine spatial planning (MSP) has emerged as a radical approach to achieving sustainable development objectives at sea. …
Connor J Cavanagh, Political ecologies of biopower: diversity, debates, and new frontiers of inquiry, Journal of Political Ecology, Vol 25, No 1 (2018) DOI: https://doi.org/10.2458/v25i1.23047 Open access Abstract This article reviews recent literature on the political ecologies of conservation and environmental change mitigation, highlighting the biopolitical stakes of many writings in this field. Although a …
Chris Methmann, “The Sky Is the Limit: Global Warming as Global Governmentality.” European Journal of International Relations 19, no. 1 (March 2013): 69–91. https://doi.org/10.1177/1354066111415300 Open access Abstract The concept of governmentality has gained significant influence among scholars of International Relations. Recently, however, there is a growing literature engaging critically with the notion of a global …
Eric Sarmiento, Catharina Landström, Sarah Whatmore, Biopolitics, discipline, and hydro-citizenship: Drought management and water governance in England (2019) Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 44 (2), pp. 361-375. https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12288 Abstract In this paper we argue that English drought management rests on two imaginaries of hydrocitizenship: an economic/instrumental imaginary that frames people primarily as “customers,” …
Maher, R., Valenzuela, F., Böhm, S. The Enduring State: An analysis of governance-making in three mining conflicts (2019) Organization Studies, 40 (8), pp. 1169-1191. DOI: 10.1177/0170840619847724 Abstract This article investigates the profound ambiguity of the state in the organization of contemporary business–society relations. On the one hand, there has been a decisive shift from government …
Ítala Nepomuceno, Hugo Affonso, James Angus Fraser, Maurício Torres, Counter-conducts and the green grab: Forest peoples’ resistance to industrial resource extraction in the Saracá-Taquera National Forest, Brazilian Amazonia (2019) Global Environmental Change, 56, pp. 124-133. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2019.04.004 Abstract This paper contributes to the theory of environmentality – the ‘conduct of conduct’ with regard to the environment …
Danielle Ringer, Courtney Carothers, Rachel Donkersloot, Jesse Coleman, Paula Cullenberg,For generations to come? The privatization paradigm and shifting social baselines in Kodiak, Alaska’s commercial fisheries (2018) Marine Policy, 98, pp. 97-103. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2018.09.009 Abstract This paper presents results from a study that explored a key threat to fisheries sustainability in Alaska – the graying of the …
Bresnihan, P. Revisiting neoliberalism in the oceans: Governmentality and the biopolitics of ‘improvement’ in the Irish and European fisheries (2019) Environment and Planning A, 51 (1), pp. 156-177. DOI: 10.1177/0308518X18803110 Abstract Foucault’s account of the emergence of biopolitics in the late 18th century helps frame the political economy of ‘improvements’ as an environmental project linked …
Valladares, C., Boelens, R. Mining for Mother Earth. Governmentalities, sacred waters an nature’s rights in Ecuador (2019) Geoforum, 100, pp. 68-79. DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2019.02.009 Abstract Getting public opinion to see ‘mining’ and ‘Nature’s Rights’ as non-contradictory and even equivalent and harmonious, calls for far-reaching power strategies. Nature was entitled to rights by Ecuador’s Constitution at about …
Asiyanbi, A.P., Ogar, E., Akintoye, O.A. Complexities and surprises in local resistance to neoliberal conservation: Multiple environmentalities, technologies of the self and the poststructural geography of local engagement with REDD+ (2019) Political Geography, 69, pp. 128-138. DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2018.12.008 Abstract Actual local engagement with neoliberal conservation is remarkably complex and dynamic. This article advances a poststructural …
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