Political ecology and the Foucault effect: A need to diversify disciplinary approaches to ecological management?
| Autor: | Heather Anne Swanson, Knut G. Nustad |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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scientific knowledges media_common.quotation_subject CONSERVATION SALMON Geography Planning and Development 0507 social and economic geography Development Management Monitoring Policy and Law environmental management Power (social and political) State (polity) Political science HISTORY KNOWLEDGE 0601 history and archaeology biopower Nature and Landscape Conservation media_common EXPERTISE trout 060101 anthropology Foucault Corporate governance 05 social sciences SOCIOLOGY Environmental ethics SCIENCE 06 humanities and the arts landscape Political ecology CONTEXT LANDSCAPES 050703 geography Discipline Biopower |
| Zdroj: | Nustad, K & Swanson, H A 2022, ' Political ecology and the Foucault effect: A need to diversify disciplinary approaches to ecological management? ', Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 924-946 . https://doi.org/10.1177/25148486211015044 |
| ISSN: | 0263-7758 |
| Popis: | While explicitly Foucauldian analyses have declined in recent years in the social sciences, Foucault’s ideas continue to strongly influence scholars’ approaches to power, governance and the state. In this article, we explore how Foucauldian concepts shape the work of political ecologists and social scientists working on environmental management, multispecies ethnography and the Anthropocene – often in an unrecognized way. We argue that – regardless of whether or not Foucault’s work is explicitly cited – his legacy of linking scientific projects, population management and state control continues to have an outsized impact on thinking in these fields. It is time, we assert, to directly consider how such theoretical inheritances are affecting the shape of political ecology, in particular, and the social sciences, more generally. How, we ask, are Foucauldian traditions at once enabling and constraining more-than-human scholarship? In this article, we explore the contributions and limitations of Foucauldian approaches in environmental contexts through empirical attention to trout introduction and management efforts in South Africa. Our overall aim is to call for a deeper conversation about how scholars working on environmental topics engage the science-governance nexus. The article ends with proposing landscape, as a material enactment of more-than-human politics, as a useful analytical category to this end. |
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