Groundwater in California: From Juridical and Biopolitical Governmentality to a Political Physics of Vital Processes
Autor: | Caleb Scoville, Razvan Amironesei |
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Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Zdroj: | Theory, Culture & Society. 36:133-157 |
ISSN: | 1460-3616 0263-2764 |
Popis: | This article analyzes the emergence of a political rationality of groundwater in contemporary California. It contrasts a new government of nature that we call a ‘political physics of vital processes’, operative in the case of the Orange County Water District, with juridical and biopolitical rationalities of groundwater governance. To do so, we propose a genealogical account grounded in a reading of a key concept in Aristotle’s first book of Politics. The case is analyzed along the axes of subjectivity, space, and temporality, opening to a novel way of conceptualizing the relation between power and nature. |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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