Governmentality, environmental subjectivity, and urban intensification

Leffers, Donald; Ballamingie, Patricia

doi:10.1080/13549839.2012.719016

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“…As governance strategies evolve, we should remain sceptical of notions like ‘urban sustainability,’ which have begun to populate lexicons of management. Although these ideas are often presented as new strategies for creating community good (e.g., the triple bottom line), a critical look often reveals them as a repackaging of the status quo . If these concepts are to be useful at all, they must undergo a continued, reflexive, and critical assessment.…”

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Critical approaches to urban water governance: from critique to justice, democracy, and transdisciplinary collaboration

Finewood

Holifield

2015

WIREs Water

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As global urban regions grow and transform, water systems present a unique set of challenges to stakeholders. Municipalities often struggle to pay for and maintain aging infrastructure as well as create equitable access for growing populations-especially in the rapidly urbanizing Global South. Critical approaches to urban water governance have made tremendous contributions to our collective knowledge of how these systems work. In this study, we argue that the most important direction for these approaches to urban water governance is to translate the insights generated by critique into the positive project to construct more just and democratic systems and practices of governance. However, we contend that in order to do this work, critical scholarship on urban water governance will need to continue deepening its engagement with two larger sets of debates. First, to help realize more just and democratic systems, it will need to grapple with the complex dimensions of debates on how to theorize and conceptualize justice and democracy. Second, in order to create effective alternatives to current paradigms of water governance, it will need to show how recent conceptualizations of urban water as hybrid or heterogeneous assemblage can help build truly transdisciplinary collaborations. We explore these debates through a review of recent critical approaches to urban water governance, with attention to ways forward that embrace epistemological pluralism and transdisciplinary collaboration.

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Critical approaches to urban water governance: from critique to justice, democracy, and transdisciplinary collaboration

Finewood

Holifield

2015

WIREs Water

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“…Therefore, the degree of synergy between climate change and sustainability discourses is important because it can lead to different policy outcomes. This paper also contributes to the growing literature on governmentality and environmental policy (Leffers and Ballamingie 2013). Since Foucault delivered his lectures on governmentality in the 1970s, it has been used as a framework by a number of scholars (Dean 2010;Huxley 2007).…”

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Urban climate change and sustainability planning: an analysis of sustainability and climate change discourses in local government plans in Canada

Tozer

2017

Journal of Environmental Planning and Management

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“…Governmentality, to begin with, has been applied in a wide range of work on brownfields and environmental gentrification (e.g. Brand 2007;Leffers & Ballamingie 2013). Developed by Michel Foucault in the late 1970s (Foucault 1991), governmentality "denotes the micropolitical practices through which a governing agency conditions people to act in specific ways and through which people govern themselves" (McConnell 2012, 78).…”

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Studying brownfields: governmentality, the post-political, or non-essential materialism?

Conroy

2018

Fennia

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Conroy, W. (2018) Studying brownfields: governmentality, the postpolitical, or non-essential materialism ? Fennia 196(2) 204-214. https://doi. org/10.11143/fennia.70295 This paper sets out to evaluate several common theoretical frameworks employed in critical studies of brownfield redevelopment. Specifically, it analyzes the relevance of governmentality, the post-political, and non-essentialist materialism in that context. To do so, it explores how these theoretical frameworks map on to Bridgeport, Connecticut's BGreen 2020, and its approach to the redevelopment of vacant and underutilized land -and brownfields more specifically. It argues that these frameworks come up short when applied to this empirical case because they put forth untenable ontological claims regarding the constitution of the subject and political agency. Going further, it asserts that these frameworks fail to identify a way forward for those seeking emancipatory political interventions in the context of brownfield redevelopment and urban environmental politics. In closing this paper suggests that Jason W. Moore's recent writing on "capitalism as world-ecology" can provide a way forward where these other frameworks fail.

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Governmentality, environmental subjectivity, and urban intensification

Cited by 26 publications

References 52 publications

Critical approaches to urban water governance: from critique to justice, democracy, and transdisciplinary collaboration

Critical approaches to urban water governance: from critique to justice, democracy, and transdisciplinary collaboration

Urban climate change and sustainability planning: an analysis of sustainability and climate change discourses in local government plans in Canada

Studying brownfields: governmentality, the post-political, or non-essential materialism?

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