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

Contributor(s): Lawrence, Jennifer L., ed | Wiebe, Sarah Marie, edMaterial type: Text

TextPublication details: London: Routledge, 2018Description: xv, 277 p.; 24 cmISBN: 9781138659452 ; 9781315620213Subject(s): Biopolitics | Political ecology | Disasters -- Political aspects | Environmental disasters -- Political aspectsDDC classification: 304.2

Contents:

PART I: Commodifying crisis 1. Manufacturing biopolitical disaster: Instrumental (ir)rationality and the Deepwater Horizon disaster Disaster (in)formation Dispersing biopolitical disaster Challenging the governance of biopolitical disaster References 2. Disaster biopolitics and the crisis economy Introduction Theorizing a crisis economy Catastrophe insurance Community-based disaster management Conclusions: mapping the crisis economy Note References 3. Lives as half-life: The nuclear condition and biopolitical disaster Introduction The landscapes of nuclearity Nuclearity now Nuclear test subjectivity Nuclear site subjectivity Conclusions References 4. Even natural disasters are unlikely to slow us down … Foucault on de-statification as the historical trajectory of liberal governmentality The CSER movement as handmaiden for the de-statification of governmentality “Even natural disasters are unlikely to slow us down”: embedding sustainable logistics within the biopolitics of disaster The biopolitics of disaster and the sustainable logistics industry’s interest in de-statifying liberal government Conclusion Acknowledgements References PART II: Governmentalities of disaster 5. The governmentality of disaster resilience Two tropes The “art” of disaster resilience From praxis to poiesis Contesting the narrative Conclusion: what’s next? Notes References 6. Catastrophe and catastrophic thought The catastrophe in the mind Catastrophe Catastrophic thought Conclusion: notes for a dispositif of catastrophism Notes References 7. Politics of re-radicalizing the deracinated as invasive species: Human displacement, environmental disasters of state enclosures, and the irradicability of biodiversity The environment of the state versus the state of nature: the radicalization of political life Externalizing environmental disaster through the deracination of others The production of biopolitical disaster by state formations out of “environmental refugees” The irradicable biodiversity of human life on the move References PART III: Affected bodies 8. Emergency life and indigenous resistance: Seeing biopolitical disaster through the prism of political ecology A prismatic political ecology lens Everyday disaster Attawapiskat Aamjiwnaang Pacheedaht Moving forward: resistance, resurgence and radical democracy References Appendix A: Declaration of Commitment 9. Marginally managed: “Letting die” and fighting back in the oil sands Introduction Oil sands in context Thinking biopolitically Biopolitics and racism Settler colonialism and biopolitics Resistance and the state Conclusion References 10. “Of course they count, but not right now”: Regulating precarity in Lee Maracle’s Ravensong and Celia’s Song “There is a hierarchy to care”: theoretical concerns and applications “Sustenance without conscience”: destroying indigenous modes of life ‘Of course they count, but not right now’: biopolitical disaster and the mundane ‘This business of healing’: contesting a politics of forgetting Notes References 11. Life at all costs: The biopolitics of chemotherapy in contemporary television and film Slash, burn, poison: life at all costs Living with cancer: a state of perpetual emergency Notes References PART IV: Environmental aesthetics and resistance 12. The great turning 13. The underestimated power effects of the discourses and practices of the food justice movement Pessimist premise General system failure The transformative strength of the three Foucaults How practices and discourses of the food justice movement illustrate the three Foucaults The biopolitical disaster of industrial agriculture Via Campesina: peasant knowledge, land and power Urban agriculture: eaters’ resistance and practices for a new food system Slow Food: putting eaters’ culture back into “agriculture” Conclusion: get your hands dirty! Acknowledgements References 14. Interrogating the neoliberal biopolitics of the sustainable development–resilience nexus The political genealogy of sustainable development From security to resilience The disastrous and politically debased subject of resilience Conclusion: development contra neoliberalism? References 15. The aesthetics of triage: Towards life beyond survival Mechanism of a triage Photographic triage The cinematic triage Beyond survival References 16. End piece: Dealing with disastrous life Extra/ordinary disasters Dread life Towards a new critical framework? References

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PART I: Commodifying crisis

1. Manufacturing biopolitical disaster: Instrumental (ir)rationality and the Deepwater Horizon disaster
Disaster (in)formation
Dispersing biopolitical disaster
Challenging the governance of biopolitical disaster
References

2. Disaster biopolitics and the crisis economy
Introduction
Theorizing a crisis economy
Catastrophe insurance
Community-based disaster management
Conclusions: mapping the crisis economy
Note
References

3. Lives as half-life: The nuclear condition and biopolitical disaster
Introduction
The landscapes of nuclearity
Nuclearity now
Nuclear test subjectivity
Nuclear site subjectivity
Conclusions
References

4. Even natural disasters are unlikely to slow us down …
Foucault on de-statification as the historical trajectory of liberal governmentality
The CSER movement as handmaiden for the de-statification of governmentality
“Even natural disasters are unlikely to slow us down”: embedding sustainable logistics within the biopolitics of disaster
The biopolitics of disaster and the sustainable logistics industry’s interest in de-statifying liberal government
Conclusion
Acknowledgements
References

PART II: Governmentalities of disaster

5. The governmentality of disaster resilience
Two tropes
The “art” of disaster resilience
From praxis to poiesis
Contesting the narrative
Conclusion: what’s next?
Notes
References

6. Catastrophe and catastrophic thought
The catastrophe in the mind
Catastrophe
Catastrophic thought
Conclusion: notes for a dispositif of catastrophism
Notes
References

7. Politics of re-radicalizing the deracinated as invasive species: Human displacement, environmental disasters of state enclosures, and the irradicability of biodiversity
The environment of the state versus the state of nature: the radicalization of political life
Externalizing environmental disaster through the deracination of others
The production of biopolitical disaster by state formations out of “environmental refugees”
The irradicable biodiversity of human life on the move
References

PART III: Affected bodies

8. Emergency life and indigenous resistance: Seeing biopolitical disaster through the prism of political ecology
A prismatic political ecology lens
Everyday disaster
Attawapiskat
Aamjiwnaang
Pacheedaht
Moving forward: resistance, resurgence and radical democracy
References
Appendix A: Declaration of Commitment

9. Marginally managed: “Letting die” and fighting back in the oil sands
Introduction
Oil sands in context
Thinking biopolitically
Biopolitics and racism
Settler colonialism and biopolitics
Resistance and the state
Conclusion
References

10. “Of course they count, but not right now”: Regulating precarity in Lee Maracle’s Ravensong and Celia’s Song
“There is a hierarchy to care”: theoretical concerns and applications
“Sustenance without conscience”: destroying indigenous modes of life
‘Of course they count, but not right now’: biopolitical disaster and the mundane
‘This business of healing’: contesting a politics of forgetting
Notes
References

11. Life at all costs: The biopolitics of chemotherapy in contemporary television and film
Slash, burn, poison: life at all costs
Living with cancer: a state of perpetual emergency
Notes
References

PART IV: Environmental aesthetics and resistance

12. The great turning

13. The underestimated power effects of the discourses and practices of the food justice movement
Pessimist premise
General system failure
The transformative strength of the three Foucaults
How practices and discourses of the food justice movement illustrate the three Foucaults
The biopolitical disaster of industrial agriculture
Via Campesina: peasant knowledge, land and power
Urban agriculture: eaters’ resistance and practices for a new food system
Slow Food: putting eaters’ culture back into “agriculture”
Conclusion: get your hands dirty!
Acknowledgements
References

14. Interrogating the neoliberal biopolitics of the sustainable development–resilience nexus
The political genealogy of sustainable development
From security to resilience
The disastrous and politically debased subject of resilience
Conclusion: development contra neoliberalism?
References

15. The aesthetics of triage: Towards life beyond survival
Mechanism of a triage
Photographic triage
The cinematic triage
Beyond survival
References

16. End piece: Dealing with disastrous life
Extra/ordinary disasters
Dread life
Towards a new critical framework?
References

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