Biopolitical Disaster

ISBN-13: 9781138659452 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 278 str.

Jennifer L. Lawrence; Sarah Marie Wiebe

Opis

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.

O autorze

Jennifer L. Lawrence is Postdoctoral Research Associate at The Global Forum on Urbanand Regional Resilience, Virginia Tech, USA. Sarah Marie Wiebe is Assistant Professor of Environmental Sustainability, Department of Political Science, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa.