Biopolitical disaster/ 
edited by Jennifer L. Lawrence, Sarah Marie Wiebe. 
 - London:  Routledge,   2018. 
 - xv, 277 p.;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>PART I: Commodifying crisis<br/><br/>1. Manufacturing biopolitical disaster: Instrumental (ir)rationality and the Deepwater Horizon disaster<br/>Disaster (in)formation<br/>Dispersing biopolitical disaster<br/>Challenging the governance of biopolitical disaster<br/>References<br/><br/>2. Disaster biopolitics and the crisis economy<br/>Introduction<br/>Theorizing a crisis economy<br/>Catastrophe insurance<br/>Community-based disaster management<br/>Conclusions: mapping the crisis economy<br/>Note<br/>References<br/><br/>3. Lives as half-life: The nuclear condition and biopolitical disaster<br/>Introduction<br/>The landscapes of nuclearity<br/>Nuclearity now<br/>Nuclear test subjectivity<br/>Nuclear site subjectivity<br/>Conclusions<br/>References<br/><br/>4. Even natural disasters are unlikely to slow us down …<br/>Foucault on de-statification as the historical trajectory of liberal governmentality<br/>The CSER movement as handmaiden for the de-statification of governmentality<br/>“Even natural disasters are unlikely to slow us down”: embedding sustainable logistics within the biopolitics of disaster<br/>The biopolitics of disaster and the sustainable logistics industry’s interest in de-statifying liberal government<br/>Conclusion<br/>Acknowledgements<br/>References<br/><br/><br/>PART II: Governmentalities of disaster<br/><br/>5. The governmentality of disaster resilience<br/>Two tropes<br/>The “art” of disaster resilience<br/>From praxis to poiesis<br/>Contesting the narrative<br/>Conclusion: what’s next?<br/>Notes<br/>References<br/><br/>6. Catastrophe and catastrophic thought<br/>The catastrophe in the mind<br/>Catastrophe<br/>Catastrophic thought<br/>Conclusion: notes for a dispositif of catastrophism<br/>Notes<br/>References<br/><br/>7. Politics of re-radicalizing the deracinated as invasive species: Human displacement, environmental disasters of state enclosures, and the irradicability of biodiversity<br/>The environment of the state versus the state of nature: the radicalization of political life<br/>Externalizing environmental disaster through the deracination of others<br/>The production of biopolitical disaster by state formations out of “environmental refugees”<br/>The irradicable biodiversity of human life on the move<br/>References<br/><br/><br/>PART III: Affected bodies<br/><br/>8. Emergency life and indigenous resistance: Seeing biopolitical disaster through the prism of political ecology<br/>A prismatic political ecology lens<br/>Everyday disaster<br/>Attawapiskat<br/>Aamjiwnaang<br/>Pacheedaht<br/>Moving forward: resistance, resurgence and radical democracy<br/>References<br/>Appendix A: Declaration of Commitment<br/><br/>9. Marginally managed: “Letting die” and fighting back in the oil sands<br/>Introduction<br/>Oil sands in context<br/>Thinking biopolitically<br/>Biopolitics and racism<br/>Settler colonialism and biopolitics<br/>Resistance and the state<br/>Conclusion<br/>References<br/><br/>10. “Of course they count, but not right now”: Regulating precarity in Lee Maracle’s Ravensong and Celia’s Song<br/>“There is a hierarchy to care”: theoretical concerns and applications<br/>“Sustenance without conscience”: destroying indigenous modes of life<br/>‘Of course they count, but not right now’: biopolitical disaster and the mundane<br/>‘This business of healing’: contesting a politics of forgetting<br/>Notes<br/>References<br/><br/>11. Life at all costs: The biopolitics of chemotherapy in contemporary television and film<br/>Slash, burn, poison: life at all costs<br/>Living with cancer: a state of perpetual emergency<br/>Notes<br/>References<br/><br/><br/>PART IV: Environmental aesthetics and resistance<br/><br/>12. The great turning<br/><br/>13. The underestimated power effects of the discourses and practices of the food justice movement<br/>Pessimist premise<br/>General system failure<br/>The transformative strength of the three Foucaults<br/>How practices and discourses of the food justice movement illustrate the three Foucaults<br/>The biopolitical disaster of industrial agriculture<br/>Via Campesina: peasant knowledge, land and power<br/>Urban agriculture: eaters’ resistance and practices for a new food system<br/>Slow Food: putting eaters’ culture back into “agriculture”<br/>Conclusion: get your hands dirty!<br/>Acknowledgements<br/>References<br/><br/>14. Interrogating the neoliberal biopolitics of the sustainable development–resilience nexus<br/>The political genealogy of sustainable development<br/>From security to resilience<br/>The disastrous and politically debased subject of resilience<br/>Conclusion: development contra neoliberalism?<br/>References<br/><br/>15. The aesthetics of triage: Towards life beyond survival<br/>Mechanism of a triage<br/>Photographic triage<br/>The cinematic triage<br/>Beyond survival<br/>References<br/><br/>16. End piece: Dealing with disastrous life<br/>Extra/ordinary disasters<br/>Dread life<br/>Towards a new critical framework?<br/>References 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781138659452  9781315620213 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Biopolitics.<br/>Political ecology.<br/>Disasters--Political aspects.<br/>Environmental disasters--Political aspects.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>304.2  / LAW/B