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, …
Taylor C. (2013) The Discourses of Climate Change. In: Cadman T. (eds) Climate Change and Global Policy Regimes. International Political Economy. Palgrave Macmillan, London DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137006127_2 Abstract Climate change has been represented in a variety of ways. These representations have enacted their own discursive formations, which people discuss and act upon at local, national and …
Yusoff, Kathryn. “Biopolitical Economies and the Political Aesthetics of Climate Change.” Theory, Culture & Society 27, no. 2–3 (March 2010): 73–99. doi:10.1177/0263276410362090. Abstract As environments and their inhabitants undergo a multitude of abrupt changes due to climate, in the aesthetic field there has been a hardening of a few representational figures that stand in for …
Angela Oels(2005) Rendering climate change governable: From biopower to advanced liberal government?,Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning,7:3,185-207,DOI: 10.1080/15239080500339661 Abstract This article generates a theoretical framework for analysing the politics of climate change on the basis of Michel Foucault’s concept of governmentality. Foucault does not limit the exercise of power to sovereignty, but introduces discipline, biopower, liberal …
Gabriela Valdivia, “Eco-Governmentality” In The Routledge Handbook of Political Ecology. Edited By Tom Perreault, Gavin Bridge, James McCarthy, Routledge, 2015 Abstract “Eco-governmentality” is a Foucaultian-inspired power analytic that political ecologists use to examine nature–society relationships. Since its early days, political ecologists have used Marxist-inspired critique to explain environmental domination and oppression (Watts 1983; Blaikie and Brookfield 1987; …
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 …
