Biopolitical disaster. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Jennifer L. Lawrence and Sarah Marie Wiebe.
• Other Names: Lawrence, Jennifer L; Wiebe, Sarah Marie
• Contents: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of contributors; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Living with disaster; Biopolitical disaster: investigating the entanglements of life and death; A conversation on biopolitical disaster; The structure of the book; References; 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 economyIntroduction; 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 governmentalityEven 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 thoughtThe 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
• Publisher Details: Abingdon, Oxon New York, NY : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 304.2; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Essays; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / General; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / National; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Reference; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Policy; Biopolitics; Political ecology; Disasters -- Political aspects; Environmental disasters -- Political aspects; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781317216292; 1317216296
• Related ISBNs: 1138659452; 9781138659452
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.