Biopolitical Disaster

Herausgeber: Lawrence, Jennifer L; Wiebe, Sarah Marie

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 294
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9781138659452
• ISBN-10: 1138659452
• Artikelnr.: 48935942

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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