Groundwater in California: From Juridical and Biopolitical Governmentality to a Political Physics of Vital Processes

Autor:	Caleb Scoville, Razvan Amironesei
Rok vydání:	2019
Předmět:	Government Politics 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences Sociology and Political Science Political economy Political rationality General Social Sciences 010501 environmental sciences 01 natural sciences Groundwater Biopower 0105 earth and related environmental sciences Governmentality
Zdroj:	Theory, Culture & Society. 36:133-157
ISSN:	1460-3616 0263-2764
DOI:	10.1177/0263276419850277
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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