This book is the first to provide students with critical understandings of the environment using a range of theoretical perspectives inspired from Michel Foucault.
Features
* The first book to offer critical understandings of discourses of the environment using a range of theoretical perspectives.
* Addresses issues of current public debate.
* Written by an international and interdisciplinary team of contributors.
Contents
Contributors.
Acknowledgements.
1. Foucault and The Environment: An Introduction: Eric Darier.
Part I Histories:.
2."The Entry Of Life Into History": Foucault And Ecological Governmentality: Paul Rutherford.
3. Medicine, Health And The Environment: The Construction Of Environmental "Awareness": Isabelle Lanthier And Lawrence Olivier.
4. Sex At The Limits: Population, Environmentalism, And Late Capitalism: Catriona Sandilands.
5. Ecological Modernisation And Environmental Risk: Foucault And Recent Social Theory: Paul Rutherford.
Part II Environmentalities:.
6. Environmentality As Green Governmentality Geo-Power, Eco-Knowledge And Enviro-Discipline As Tactics Of Normalisation: Timothy W. Luke.
7. Northern Plains Boulder Structures: Art And Foucauldian Heterotopias: Thomas Heyd.
8. The Practice Of The Green Subjects: Nature Writing As Self-Technology: Sylvia Bowerbank.
Part III Resistances:.
9. Nature As Dangerous Space: Foucault's Challenge To Marxism, Liberal Humanism And The General Call For 'Grounded Responsibility': Peter Quigley.
10. Foucault's Unnatural Ecology: Neil Levy.
11. Foucault Against Environmental Ethics: Toward A Green Aesthetic Of Existence?: Eric Darier.
Bibliography.
Index.
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