Biopolitical disaster
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Biopolitical disaster
（Interventions）
Routledge, 2018
- : hbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
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.
Table of Contents
Foreword
Warren Magnusson
Introduction
Sarah Marie Wiebe and Jennifer L. Lawrence
Part I - Commodifying crisis
Chapter 1: "Manufacturing biopolitical disaster: Instrumental (ir)rationality and the deepwater horizon disaster"
Jennifer L. Lawrence
Chapter 2: "Disaster biopolitics and the crisis economy"
Kevin Grove
Chapter 3: "Life as half-life: The nuclear condition and biopolitical disaster"
Timothy W. Luke
Chapter 4: "Even natural disasters are unlikely to slow us down..."
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 - Affected bodies
Chapter 8: "Emergency life and indigenous resistance: Seeing biopolitical disaster through the prism of political ideology"
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 Song
Dallas Hunt
Chapter 11: "Life at all costs: The biopolitics of chemotherapy in contemporary television and film"
Teena Gabrielson
Part IV - Environmental aesthetics and resistance
Chapter 12: "The great turning"
Christine Fry
Chapter 13: "The underestimated power effects of the discourses and practices of the food justice movement"
Eric Darier
Chapter 14: "Interrogating the neoliberal biopolitics of the sustainable development-resilience nexus"
Julian Reid
Chapter 15: "The aesthetics of triage: Towards life beyond survival"
Geoffrey Whitehall
End piece: "Dealing with disastrous life" .
Francois Debrix
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