Geography and Biopolitics

Rutherford, Stephanie; Rutherford, Paul

doi:10.1111/gec3.12047

Cited by 34 publications

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“…This form of management has become predominantly focused on the production of a neoliberal subject concerned with the individual and the securing of personal wellbeing and social progress (Anderson 2015;Venn 2009). Biopolitics is used to designate the techniques and bureaucracies by which a population becomes targeted for forms of biopower (Anderson 2011;Foucault 2003;Pugh 2014;Rutherford and Rutherford 2013). The task of biopolitics is the administration of the whole social body and not the individual human organism, though the minutiae of individuals are regulated toward that collective end.…”

Section: Resilience Troubles: Biopower and The Subjectivities Of Resimentioning

confidence: 99%

Bouncing Forward After Irma and Maria: Acknowledging Colonialism, Problematizing Resilience and Thinking Climate Justice

Moulton

Machado

2019

J. of Extr. Even.

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The 2017 hurricane season caused widespread devastation across Central America, the Caribbean and the South-Eastern United States. Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria were among the most intense Atlantic hurricanes and the costliest for the Circum-Caribbean region. For the small islands of the Caribbean, the hurricanes highlighted the acute vulnerability to climate change. The scale of physical ruin and level of social dislocation, however, do not just reflect the outcomes of a natural hazard. Continued structural dependency and outright entanglement in colonial relationships complicated recovery and coordination of aid to affected communities across the region. We argue that the experiences and outcomes of hazards like Harvey, Irma and Maria therefore invite examinations of persisting colonial power dynamics in discussions of climate hazard. Using Foucauldian theory for such an examination, we problematize simply championing resilience, without noting the possibilities for its use as a biopolitical regime of governing life. Such an appraisal, we suggest, might clarify a path toward reparations and climate change justice.

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Section: Resilience Troubles: Biopower and The Subjectivities Of Resimentioning

confidence: 99%

Bouncing Forward After Irma and Maria: Acknowledging Colonialism, Problematizing Resilience and Thinking Climate Justice

Moulton

Machado

2019

J. of Extr. Even.

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“…Spatial planning has a long-founded concern with the incorporation of local knowledge into technical rationalities (Friedmann 2010;Natarajan, 2017). In its participatory practice, planning suggests that the cognitions and emotions of place attachment can be normalised, and a semblance of equilibrium achieved between market logics and the pursuit of wellbeing (Rutherford & Rutherford 2013). This is a process of integration in which a way of being -the phenomenology of emplacement -is brought into dialogue with a way of knowing -the epistemology of planning (Allen & Crookes, 2009).…”

Section: Abstract Space and Planning Knowledgementioning

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Neighbourhood planning and the production of spatial knowledge

Bradley

2018

Town Planning Review

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This paper explores the production of what counts as authoritative knowledge in neighbourhood planning in England. The aim of the paper is to evidence the process through which the intelligibility of place was established in participatory planning in neighbourhoods and to chart the exclusions and exceptions through which spatial norms were produced. It evidences the moderating effect that logics of economic development had in a policy dedicated to the promotion of sustainable development, and, in contrast, it analyses the new expressions of place intelligibility successfully rendered in neighbourhood planning. The paper concludes that the ability of neighbourhood planners to privilege place over logics of development points to a more inclusive and egalitarian approach to the construction of planning knowledge.

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“…Or, to express it briefly, how the making of land makes life. The last few decades in geography have seen biopolitics applied in an enormous variety of contexts (see Rutherford and Rutherford ). Although recent explorations into the biopolitics of non‐human life have begun to engage materiality in unique ways – including molecularisation (Braun ) and food (Nally ) – a geographical engagement with the biopolitics of geophysical transformation is still lacking.…”

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Making land to make life: island‐building in the South China Sea and the biopolitics of geophysical transformation

Rice

Tyner

Munro‐Stasiuk

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Geographical Journal

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Recent work in environmental politics has sought to expand the domain of ‘the geopolitical’ to include geologic transformation, bringing the human alteration of terrestrial, oceanic, and atmospheric forms into the political sphere. In line with this ‘geologic turn’, this paper examines China's recent land reclamation efforts in the South China Sea as a starting point for a broader conversation on the politics of geophysical change. With recent discussion of geoengineering to avert the consequences of climate change, we reaffirm calls to address questions of participation, equity and accountability in geoengineering, but also to challenge assumptions of what is being modified, by whom, and for whom. To that end, we argue that human modification of the geophysical environment is an expression not only of a geologic politics (of territory and resources), but of a biopolitics that seeks to reclaim and perfect populations: a politics of making life and letting die.

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Geography and Biopolitics

Cited by 34 publications

References 39 publications

Bouncing Forward After Irma and Maria: Acknowledging Colonialism, Problematizing Resilience and Thinking Climate Justice

Bouncing Forward After Irma and Maria: Acknowledging Colonialism, Problematizing Resilience and Thinking Climate Justice

Neighbourhood planning and the production of spatial knowledge

Making land to make life: island‐building in the South China Sea and the biopolitics of geophysical transformation

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