Lawrence Jennifer L. - Biopolitical Disaster

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 Hawaii at Mnoa.

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Biopolitical Disaster

Edited by Jennifer L. Lawrence and Sarah Marie Wiebe

First published 2018

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ric Darier, Senior Campaigner on Ecological Agriculture, Greenpeace International, Canada

Franois Debrix, Director of the Alliance for Social, Political, Ethical, and Cultural Thought and Professor in the Department of Political Science, Virginia Tech, USA

Mark F.N. Franke, Associate Professor and Director of the Center for Global Studies in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Huron University College, Canada

Christine Fry, Visiting Assistant Professor of Spiritual Practice and Care, Starr King School for the Ministry, USA

Teena Gabrielson, Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science, University of Wyoming, USA

Kevin Grove, Assistant Professor of Geography, Florida International University, USA

Dallas Hunt, PhD Candidate, University of British Columbia, Canada.

Garnet Kindervater, Lecturer in the Department of Geography, Dartmouth University, USA

Jennifer L. Lawrence, Post-Doctoral Research Associate at The Global Forum on Urban & Regional Resilience, Virginia Tech, USA

Timothy W. Luke, University Distinguished Professor in the Department of Political Science, Virginia Tech, USA

Warren Magnusson, Professor Emeritus of Political Science, University of Victoria, Canada

Emily Ray, Assistant Professor and MPA Coordinator in the Department of Political Science, Sonoma State University, USA

Julian Reid, Professor of International Relations, University of Lapland, Finland

Peter Rogers, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology, Macquarie University, Australia

Andy Scerri, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Virginia Tech, USA

Nader Sobhani, Masters of Science candidate in the Environmental Economics and Climate Change program, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK

Geoffrey Whitehall, Professor in the Department of Politics and Coordinator of the Social and Political Thought Graduate Program, Acadia University, Canada

Sarah Marie Wiebe, Assistant Professor of Environmental Sustainability, Department of Political Science, University of Hawaii at Mnoa