Biopolitical disaster

by Lawrence, Jennifer L. Wiebe, Sarah Marie

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Full title :Biopolitical disaster / edited by Jennifer L. Lawrence, Sarah Marie Wiebe.

Summary

Biopolitical Disaster employs a grounded analysis of the production and lived-experience of biopolitical life in order to illustrate how disaster production and response are intimately interconnected. The book is organized into four parts, each revealing how socio-environmental consequences of instrumentalist environmentalities produce disastrous settings and political experiences that are evident in our contemporary world. Beginning with "Commodifying crisis," the volume focuses on the inherent production of disaster that is bound to the crisis tendency of capitalism. The second part, "Governmentalities of disaster," addresses material and discursive questions of governance, the role of the state, as well as questions of democracy. In this part, the linkage between problematic environmental rationalities and policies is explored. Third, the volume considers how and where the (de)valuation of life itself takes shape within the theme of "Affected bodies," and looks at the corporeal impacts of disastrous biopolitics. The final part, "Environmental aesthetics and resistance," fuses concepts from affect theory, feminist studies, post-positivism, and contemporary political theory to identify sites and practices of political resistance to biopower. Biopolitical Disaster will be of great interest to postgraduates, researchers, and academic scholars working in Political ecology; Geopolitics; Feminist critique; Intersectionality; Environmental politics; Science and Technology studies; Disaster studies; Political theory; Indigenous studies; Aesthetics and resistance.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2017.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Routledge
Place of Publication:London
Language:eng
Publication Date:2017.

The Physical Object

Description:280 pages.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781317216308, 131721630X
oclc:on1200110283
Dewey Decimal:320.01

Foreword Warren Magnusson Introduction Jennifer Lawrence and Sarah Marie Wiebe Part I -- Commodifying Crisis Chapter 1: "Manufacturing Biopolitical Disaster: Instrumental (Ir)Rationality and Deepwater Horizon" Jennifer L. Lawrence Chapter 2: "Disaster Biopolitics and the Crisis Economy" Kevin Grove Chapter 3: "Life as Half Lives: The Nuclear Condition and Biopolitical Disaster" Timothy W. Luke Chapter 4: "Even Natural Disasters Are Unlikely to Slow Us Down...": Corporate Social & Environmental Responsibility as Well-Crafted Political Judgment" Andy Scerri and Nader Sobhani Part II -- Governmentalities of Disaster Chapter 5: "The Governmentality of Disaster Resilience" Peter Rogers Chapter 6: "Catastrophe and Catastrophic Thought" Garnet Kindervater Chapter 7: "Politics of re-radicalising the Deracinated as Invasive Species: Human Displacement, Environmental Disasters of State Enclosures and the Irradicability of Biodiversity" Mark F.N. Franke Part III -…