Biopolitical Disaster

Jennifer Lawrence, Sarah Marie Wiebe (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

294 Seiten

2017
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-65945-2 (ISBN)

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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.

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. This part explores the linkage between problematic environmental rationalities and policies. Third, the volume considers how and where the (de)valuation of life itself takes shape within the theme of "Affected bodies," and investigates 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.

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.

Part I: The Crisis Economy Chapter 1: Environmental Disaster as Manufactured Risk and the Practice of Biopolitics Jennifer L. Lawrence Chapter 2: Neoliberalizing Disaster Management: Crisis, Subjectivity & the Biopolitics of Catastrophe Insurance in the Caribbean Kevin Grove Chapter 3: Life as Half Lives: Biopolitical Disaster in the Nuclear Condition as Normalized Neglect and Negation 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: Governmentalities of Disaster Peter Rogers Chapter 6: Catastrophe and Catastrophic Thought: Readings Between Catastrophization and Le Catastrophisme Garnet Kindervater Chapter 7: (Re-)Imagining the Political Subject Julian Reid Part III: (Post)Colonial Geopolitics Chapter 8: Living With Emergency: the Affective Life of Toxic Matter Sarah Marie Wiebe Chapter 9: Embodied Violence and Environmental Disaster: Communicating Suffering While Living in a Tar Sands Extraction Zone Emily Howard Chapter 10: Cataloging the Other: Biometrics and the Management of Migrants at Sea Stefanie F. Georgakis-Abbott Chapter 11: Problematisations of Human Movement as Environmental Disaster: A Political Retreat to Abstract Stasis Against the Kinesis of Life Mark Franke Part IV: Eco-Aesthetic Practices of Resistance Chapter 12: Reclaiming Control Over Our Food: ‘Gardening’ as Acts of Resistance Against Corporate Big Food Eric Darier Chapter 13: Carcinogens, Chemotherapy and the Normalization of Life with Cancer Teena Gabrielson Chapter 14: Katrina's Bio-Temporalities: Lee's When the Levies Broke, HBO's Treme, and the changing Racial-Spatial Order Michael Shapiro Chapter 15: The Aesthetics of Triage: Towards Life Beyond Survival Geoffrey Whitehall End Piece: Dealing with Disastrous Life. Francois Debrix

Erscheinungsdatum	15.08.2017
Reihe/Serie	Interventions
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	566 g
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
ISBN-10	1-138-65945-2 / 1138659452
ISBN-13	978-1-138-65945-2 / 9781138659452
Zustand	Neuware