Eco‐Managerialism: Environmental Studies as a Power/Knowledge Formation

Luke, Timothy W.

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“…In this respect, conservation has often been described as a form of 'green' governmentality intended to inculcate an environmental ethic by means of which people will selfregulate their behaviour in conservation friendly ways (e.g., Luke 1999aLuke , 1999bRutherford 1999;Neumann 2001;Peluso & Watts 2001;Sundar 2001;Agrawal 2005aAgrawal , 2005b. Agrawal (2005b: 162), for instance, building upon Luke (1999aLuke ( , 1999b, describes an 'environmentality' aimed at the creation of 'environmental subjects-people who care about the environment'. Environmental education would constitute a paradigmatic example of this environmentality in action, whereby, through diverse decentralised institutions (state schools, NGO trainings, community workshops, ecotourism excursions, etc.…”

Section: Neoliberal Environmentalitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…For instance, in the introduction to their edited volume Violent environments, a political ecology critique of environmental security scholarship, Peluso and Watts (2001) and governmentality yet conflates the latter with biopower, writing that "the concern of government is the well-being of populations at large". Others describe governmentality and biopower interchangeably as well (Luke 1999a(Luke , 1999bRutherford 1999). Li also conflates disciplinarity and neoliberalism in her discussion of biopower, observing that "government operates by educating desires and configuring habits" while quoting Bentham to describe governmentality as "artificially arranging things so that people, following their own self-interest, will do as they ought" (2007: 5).…”

Section: Multiple Environmentalities In the Conservation Debatementioning

confidence: 99%

“…perspective (Peet & Watts 1996), drawing on Foucault's (1991aFoucault's ( , 2007Foucault's ( , 2008 analysis of 'governmentality' as well as recent applications of this concept to describe environmental governance (Luke 1999a(Luke , 1999bAgrawal 2005aAgrawal , 2005b, to develop my analysis. In the process, I seek to expand upon recent critiques of the growing trend towards neoliberalisation within contemporary conservation practice by analysing neoliberalism not merely as a capitalist economic process but rather, following Foucault, as a far more general strategy of governing human action in a variety of realms.…”

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“…Campus sustainability initiatives originate from and are housed within an institutional structure based on assumptions of market, hierarchy, and governmentality (Luke 1999). Not surprisingly, then, the movement to "green the campus" seems to ignore the need for or even the possibility of a political movement for radical change.…”

Section: What Kind Of Ecological Citizens Are We Producing? Are We Rementioning

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The Mixed Political Blessing of Campus Sustainability

Breen

2010

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The rise of sustainability rhetoric, curriculum, infrastructure, and marketing on college campuses is a mixed blessing. On the one hand, college presidents are pledging to eliminate their campuses' global warming emissions; colleges and universities are building wind turbines, composters, and green buildings; and sustainability coordinators are the latest surge in new staff hires. However, the greening of college campuses has a less welcome side as well, and examination of the campus sustainability movement suggests an unsettling lack of theoretical and ideological analysis. In this article, I praise what is being done well, identify the political analysis that has been avoided, and provide arguments for what has yet to be addressed. I argue that the trend toward campus sustainability, while praiseworthy in some significant ways, has left some troubling theoretical assumptions largely undisturbed.

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“…28 Ecological threats and their associated economic and political disruptions are viewed as contingencies that need to be pre-empted to ensure the desired circulation of people, commodities, finance and so on. Here strategies of climate mitigation and adaptation advanced by the International Panel on Climate Change and other transnational organisations render planetary the biopolitical practices of security that Foucault first diagnosed in relation to modern urban administration.…”

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Climate Crisis and the Actuarial Imaginary: 'The War on Global Warming'

Dibley¹,

Neilson²

2010

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Has there ever been a climate crisis? Or an economic crisis? Did these ever happen? Are they happening? 'Merry crisis and a happy new fear' -these words, spray painted outside the Bank of Greece in Athens, as that country erupted in riots in December 2008, seemed to say it so well. There is always another crisis, a new crisis. Enjoy your crisis. But also be scared. Since the crisis perpetuates fear. In this paper we want to critically interrogate the proposition that we live in a time of crisis. What is politically at stake in such claims, as rife as they seem to have become? How do they fold into processes of subjection and subjectivation, shaping our roles as citizens, workers, migrants, consumers, activists or investors? How does the declaration of a crisis amplify, modify or detract from the underlying conditions to which it seeks to draw attention? We ask these questions not simply because we are suspicious of the terminology that circulates in venues like The Economist or Time Magazine. Our investigation is also driven by the belief that the construction, interpretation and management of the present as a time of crisis locates individuals and populations as objects of particular strategies of governance. While we explore these strategies predominantly in relation to the discourses and practices surrounding the notion of climate crisis, we do not limit our analysis to this object or even understand the term 'climate' in an exclusively meteorological sense.To approach climate crisis as a construct is not to do the same as regards the warming of the earth's atmosphere or the depletion of the resources that have fuelled the development of global modernity. Indeed, it is the seriousness of this situation that motivates our inquiry and leads us to ask what is at stake in the invocation of crisis, or perhaps better, yet another crisis. To invoke the notion of crisis is to construct a particular injunction to judgement and action that establishes in itself the imperative for redressing that crisis. In crisis, as it is popularly noted, we find ourselves in a moment of danger and opportunity. Unsurprisingly, much of the current discourse on climate change oscillates between these two poles: most dramatically, between imminent catastrophe and the prospect of renewal; between unimaginable humanitarian disaster and the promise of a green-tech revolution. As such the climate crisis regularly calls forth regimes of risk, since it is notions of risk that work this line between danger and opportunity, between protection and profit.This essay's premise, that climate crisis shapes particular subjectivities, is built on the presupposition of the existence of a political economy of protection and profit that constitutes, as it constructs, that crisis. To interrogate the processes of subjection and subjectivation integral to this economy, the essay traces how the climate crisis becomes enfolded in existing logics that seek to manage contingency through risk; significantly, via those risk logics of security and securitisation by ...

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Eco‐Managerialism: Environmental Studies as a Power/Knowledge Formation

Cited by 86 publications

References 57 publications

Neoliberal environmentality: Towards a poststructuralist political ecology of the conservation debate

Neoliberal environmentality: Towards a poststructuralist political ecology of the conservation debate

The Mixed Political Blessing of Campus Sustainability

Climate Crisis and the Actuarial Imaginary: 'The War on Global Warming'

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