On Environmentality: Geo-Power and Eco-Knowledge in the Discourses of Contemporary Environmentalism

Luke, Timothy W.

doi:10.2307/1354445

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“…To Luke [8], [9] environmentality emerges beyond the scientific sphere, connected to corporations and official state agencies where new conceptions and codes are employed to emphasize environmental commitment to natural resource management. Discourses and concepts of nature, environment and sustainability are embraced as a means to legitimize neoliberal forms of management under the guise of pluralist forms of governance.…”

Section: B Environmentalitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Timely refers to the appropriate, propitious or favorable discourses from industry stakeholders aimed at ensuring their social and environmental commitments. As pointed by Luke [8], [9] a designed environmentality outlined to legitimize both energy production chains by putting market goals aligned with society and state interests.…”

Section: International Journal Of Environmentalmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Energy Landscapes and Environmentality: Boundaries between Discourses and Practices in Energy Governance

Lima¹,

Toni²

2017

IJESD

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Abstract-Energy resources are critical to the development of mankind. Different forms of energy governance can promote innovative environmental subjectivities, but eventually become the stage of constructed rationalities that legitimate the predatory use of natural resources. Thus, the concept of environmentality is used as a theoretical frame to analyze how discourses are used to legitimate the pace, use, and forms of energy production. Primary data were collected in two energy landscapes: Gaucho Biodiesel Pole in Brazil, and Eagle Ford Shale in the United States. Despite distinctive materiality and different governance structures the results pointed to a common timely environmentalism, based on an empty rhetoric.

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Section: B Environmentalitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: International Journal Of Environmentalmentioning

confidence: 99%

Energy Landscapes and Environmentality: Boundaries between Discourses and Practices in Energy Governance

Lima¹,

Toni²

2017

IJESD

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“…Power acts through the relations between state and community as well as within the community, regulating behaviour through disciplined bodies (Goldman 2001), insofar as the state is able to construct ecological modes of conduct for its citizenry and represent them as rational modes of conduct. If nature as a social construct becomes synonymous with the natural law of a responsible citizen's behaviour in environmentalism, biopolitics as expressed by Foucault could be achieved through the people's eco-self-governance (Luke 1995).…”

Section: Of Corporations Implement Corporate Social Responsibility (Csr)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Eco-Governmentality: A Discursive Analysis of State-NGOs-Youth Relations in Singapore

Pey

Islam

2017

Social Sciences

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This article seeks to address the gap in representing micro-level civil society voices and contribute to literature on state-society relations in Singapore's environmental movement. Given the present constraints of state-NGO communication and cooperation, the state and NGOs negotiate the restrictions by grooming youths as agents of change. Through in-depth interviews, it explores how environmentalism is represented differently through various discourses by the social actors; state, NGOs and youths. By using eco-governmentality as a framework and through discursive analysis, we argue that state-society cooperation in environmentalism is hindered by lack of clear and effective communication channels, as well as expertise and knowledge barriers. In addition, investing in youths has led to an altered dynamic of state-society relations and a greater variety in discourses on environmental advocacy. Owing to the youths' capability for spreading social awareness and ideas, this is an area that requires open discussion in order to achieve better state-civil society cooperation.

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“…One vein of literature that has been particularly critical in its analysis of environmental governance practices applies Foucault's concepts of "governmentality"-or the practices, ways of thinking, rationalities, and discourses through which subjects are governed-to highlight the social construction of environmental problems and the limitations of market-based governance practices [63,64]. This perspective considers the multiple and relational nature of power as it plays out between actors and arenas in environmental governance [65].…”

Section: Environmental Governancementioning

confidence: 99%

Hybrid Arrangements as a Form of Ecological Modernization: The Case of the US Energy Efficiency Conservation Block Grants

Galli

Fisher

2016

Sustainability

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How are environmental policy goals implemented and sustained in the context of political stagnation surrounding national climate policies in the United States? In this paper, we discuss Ecological Modernization Theory as a tool for understanding the complexity of climate governance at the sub-national level. In particular, we explore the emergence of hybrid governance arrangements during the local implementation of federal energy efficiency programs in US cities. We analyze the formation and advancement of programs associated with one effort to establish a sub-national low carbon energy policy: the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant (EECBG) program administered by the US Department of Energy. Our findings highlight the diverse range of partnerships between state, private, and civil society actors that emerged through this program and point to some of the challenges associated with collaborative climate governance initiatives at the city level. Although some programs reflected ecologically modern outcomes, other cities were constrained in their ability to move beyond the status quo due to the demands of state bureaucracies and the challenges associated with inconsistent funding. We find that these programs cultivated hybrid arrangements in an effort to sustain the projects following the termination of federal grant funding. Overall, hybrid governance plays an important role in the implementation and long-term sustainability of climate-related policies.

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On Environmentality: Geo-Power and Eco-Knowledge in the Discourses of Contemporary Environmentalism

Cited by 211 publications

References 7 publications

Energy Landscapes and Environmentality: Boundaries between Discourses and Practices in Energy Governance

Energy Landscapes and Environmentality: Boundaries between Discourses and Practices in Energy Governance

Eco-Governmentality: A Discursive Analysis of State-NGOs-Youth Relations in Singapore

Hybrid Arrangements as a Form of Ecological Modernization: The Case of the US Energy Efficiency Conservation Block Grants

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