Biopolitical Disaster

ISBN-13: 9781032096735 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 294 str.

Jennifer Lawrence; Sarah Marie Wiebe

Opis

This edited volume draws on the work of theorists who have used biopower as a frame of reference for their analyses in order to examine the ruinous consequences that often result from the (de)regulation of subjects through technologies of power.

Spis treści

ForewordWarren Magnusson IntroductionJennifer Lawrence and Sarah Marie WiebePart 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. LukeChapter 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 DisasterChapter 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 - Affected BodiesChapter 8: "Emergency Life and Indigenous Resistance: Seeing Biopolitical Disaster through a Prismatic lens" Sarah Marie Wiebe Chapter 9: "Marginally Managed: ‘Letting Die’ and Fighting Back in the Oil Sands Emily Ray Chapter 10: "Of Course They Count, But Not Right Now:" Regulating Precarity In Lee Maracle’s Ravensong and Celia’s SongDallas Hunt Chapter 11: "Life at All Costs: The Biopolitics of Chemotherapy in Contemporary Telivision and Film" Teena GabrielsonPart IV - Environmental Aesthetics and Resistance Chapter 12: "The Great Turning" Christine FryChapter 13: "The Underestimated Power Effects of the Discourses and Practices of the Food Justice Movement" Eric Darier Chapter 14: "Interrogating the Disastrous Biopolitics of the Sustainable Development-Resilience Nexus"Julian ReidChapter 15: "The Aesthetics of Triage: Towards Life Beyond Survival" Geoffrey WhitehallEnd Piece: "Dealing with Disastrous Life" .Francois Debrix

O autorze

Jennifer L. Lawrence is Postdoctoral Research Associate at The Global Forum on Urban and Regional Resilience, Virginia Tech, USA.

Sarah Marie Wiebe is Assistant Professor of Environmental Sustainability, Department of Political Science, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa.