ABSTRACT
This chapter suggests that examining biopolitical disaster from a political ecology lens prompts an investigation of terror's geopolitical context, an examination of terror's kinetic biopolitical affects, and a crucial discursive reframing of what constitutes terror given the grounded realities for communities struggling with "slow violence". Declaring a State of Emergency is a political decision. According to Canada's Emergency Management Act, "emergency management means the prevention and mitigation of, preparedness for, response to and recovery from emergencies". The chapter develops new insights for theorists and practitioners interested in the fields of political ecology and environmental justice. It begins by discussing the kinetic power of terror as a biopolitical disaster from a prismatic political ecology approach. The chapter discusses the ways in which Indigenous livelihoods encounter the kinetic power of terror in their everyday lives. It gestures towards pathways of resistance as a crucial component of prismatic biopolitical scholarship, with aim of decolonizing research while creating space for diverse ways of knowing.
