ABSTRACT
Biopolitical Disaster employs a grounded analysis of the production and lived-experience of biopolitical life in order to illustrate how disaster production and response are intimately interconnected. The book is organized into four parts, each revealing how socio-environmental consequences of instrumentalist environmentalities produce disastrous settings and political experiences that are evident in our contemporary world.
Beginning with "Commodifying crisis," the volume focuses on the inherent production of disaster that is bound to the crisis tendency of capitalism. The second part, "Governmentalities of disaster," addresses material and discursive questions of governance, the role of the state, as well as questions of democracy. This part explores the linkage between problematic environmental rationalities and policies. Third, the volume considers how and where the (de)valuation of life itself takes shape within the theme of "Affected bodies," and investigates the corporeal impacts of disastrous biopolitics. The final part, "Environmental aesthetics and resistance," fuses concepts from affect theory, feminist studies, post-positivism, and contemporary political theory to identify sites and practices of political resistance to biopower.
Biopolitical Disaster will be of great interest to postgraduates, researchers, and academic scholars working in Political ecology; Geopolitics; Feminist critique; Intersectionality; Environmental politics; Science and technology studies; Disaster studies; Political theory; Indigenous studies; Aesthetics; and Resistance.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|67 pages
Commodifying crisis
chapter 1|16 pages
Manufacturing biopolitical disaster
part II|56 pages
Governmentalities of disaster
chapter 7|21 pages
Politics of re-radicalizing the deracinated as invasive species
part III|67 pages
Affected bodies
chapter 8|20 pages
Emergency life and indigenous resistance
chapter 10|16 pages
“Of course they count, but not right now”
chapter 11|13 pages
Life at all costs
part IV|63 pages
Environmental aesthetics and resistance