“Governmentalities” of Conservation           Science at the Advent of Drones:           Situating an Emerging Technology

Avron, Lisa

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“…Only then can specific interventions be devised' (Li 2007, 6) For instance, emerging 'Smart' Earth techniques such as remote sensing, drone technology and Artificial Intelligence allow for governing 'at a distance' (Rose and Miller 1992, 173) to take place, illustrating a shift from 'manual to automated eco-governance' (Bakker and Ritts 2018, 208). As illustration, Avron (2017) reflects on the use of drone technologies in conservation science and argues that through these drones, species are rendered visible and hence governable, altering what is thinkable how biodiversity can and should be governed. While these ecosystems are being 'perfectly legible to all who live within it from day to day' (35), these techniques serve 'to make the local situation legible to an outsider' making governing at a distance possible (Scott 1998, 45).…”

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Transnational Governing at the Climate–Biodiversity Frontier: Employing a Governmentality Perspective

Fransen,

Bulkeley

2024

Global Environmental Politics

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Transnational governance initiatives (TGIs) are increasingly recognized as central actors in the governing of climate change and biodiversity loss. Yet, their role in linking these domains has yet to be explored. As the climate crisis comes to be increasingly interlinked with the loss of biodiversity, such initiatives are increasingly combining this challenge of climate change with action on biodiversity loss through the deployment of nature-based solutions, with significant consequences for the ways in which the nature problem and its solutions are framed and implemented. Employing a governmentality approach, this research reveals two overarching rationales by TGIs of biodiversity as a means to climate change and biodiversity loss as “asset-at-risk” that are rendered governable through myriad techniques “at a distance” and “in proximity.” By revealing how biodiversity is made to fit with the climate arena, this research finds that these governable biodiversity spaces could generate rather regrettable solutions along these shifting and unfolding climate–biodiversity frontiers.

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Transnational Governing at the Climate–Biodiversity Frontier: Employing a Governmentality Perspective

Fransen,

Bulkeley

2024

Global Environmental Politics

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“…Production of data infrastructures by dispersed actors and institutions has also provided an opening for non-state and extra-state actors to engage with these platforms, apps, and big datasets in ways that enable new forms of participation in environmental governance for otherwise marginalized actors. They also impact what people see in the environment as problems, how they respond to such problems, and shape citizen participation as well as legal interventions in ways that generate new political effects (Avron, 2017;Boucquey et al, 2019;Star, 1999;Fortun, 2004;Gabrys, 2016;Mol, 2016;Rajão and Hayes, 2009).…”

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New data infrastructures for environmental monitoring in Myanmar: Is digital transparency good for governance?

Goldstein

Faxon

2020

Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space

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The design and use of environmental data infrastructures, including software platforms, sensors, satellite data, mobile phone apps, and digitally generated visual representations, is increasingly inseparable from contemporary environmental governance. Such technologies are often intended to enable data transparency, which in turn is assumed to promote expanded participation in democratic governance. In this article, we investigate how environmental monitoring, as performed through domestic and globalized infrastructures that seek to make digital environmental data open and transparent, is playing out in Myanmar’s forest sector. New data infrastructures are inseparable from the proliferation of non-state actors involved in environmental governance amid the country’s transition from military surveillance state toward more liberal and democratic rule, yet participation is not universal. We argue that actors engage new platforms and tools based on different understandings of the role of increased data transparency in environmental governance, which in turn are structured by historical relations with and within the legacy of the surveillance state.

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“Governmentalities” of Conservation Science at the Advent of Drones: Situating an Emerging Technology

Cited by 2 publications

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Transnational Governing at the Climate–Biodiversity Frontier: Employing a Governmentality Perspective

Transnational Governing at the Climate–Biodiversity Frontier: Employing a Governmentality Perspective

New data infrastructures for environmental monitoring in Myanmar: Is digital transparency good for governance?

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