Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 11:36:12 +0200 From: ranum-AT-humcenter.ou.dk (Morten Ranum) Subject: Re: Foucault and the Environment? >Just wondering if anyone out there in the rather silent Foucault land knew >of any discussion of a Foucauldian approach to the environment. How about, >maybe a discussion of Nietzsche's writing on nature? I'm trying to think >how power/knowledge might specifically operate in environmental discourse. >I can understand how present environmental discourse might serve as a >quasi-scientific body of knowledge, but I'm wondering what space of >resistance exists for an environmental crisis which seems to be seen as >largely a by-product of capitalism and the fetishism of consumption. In >other words, I need help understanding how Foucault's analysis of power in >discursive formations can be utilized to understand environmental >destruction AND to orient people towards some alternative. > >feel no harm... A couple of weeks ago, there were a brief correspondance about Foucault and the Environment. In relations to this I of a texts, which discusses Foucault and geography: D. Matless (1992) An occasion for geography: lanscape, representation and Foucault's corpus, in: Society and Space, vol. 10, p.41-56. Also I member a mesage on this list the 12th of march about a book concerned the theme in question. I will send this former message in the buttom of this message. Finally there is some social scientifical discussion of environmental problems and the construction of nature i Denmark. Unfortunaly it basicly is in danish and not translated. It is a dicussion, which try to develop a concept of natur and environment, which think the social and the natural together using social practice, sensuality and body as mediating concepts. Theoretical these discussions are based one f.ex. Laclau & Mouffe (which builds on Foucault), or Bourdieu, Ernst Bloch, Merleau-Ponty and other fenomenologists. It migth not all bee Foucalt related, but is a broader area of constructivism. In general I think, that the concept og discourse is very usable i terms of understanding, who people change nature. And also way we present the problems we name environmental problems, crisis, and challenges. Morten Ranum - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 20:24:36 -0500 Message-Id: <199603130124.UAA22617-AT-post.QueensU.CA> X-Sender: ed2-AT-post.queensu.ca X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 1.4.3 To: foucault-AT-jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU From: ed2-AT-knot.queensu.ca (Eric Darier) Subject: LAST CALL FOR PAPERS Cc: ED2-AT-knot.queensu.ca Sender: owner-foucault-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu Precedence: bulk Reply-To: foucault-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu Dear Foucaultians! In case you missed previous calls for papers for a book on FOUCAUL T AND THE ENVIRONMENT, I am sending you the final call. There is room for two or three articles... Interested? Deadline: APRIL 15, 1996!!! ************************************************* LAST CALL FOR PAPERS for a book FOUCAULT AND THE ENVIRONMENT: POWER/KNOWELDGE, RESISTANCE AND THE SELF Edited by Eric Darier 1. Table of Contents Introduction: Michel Foucault and the Environment by =90ric Darier This introduction will: (1) contextualise Michel Foucault and his work; (2) present an overview of the 3 theoretical approaches developed by Foucault: (a) the archaeological approach to discourse analysis about knowledge (b) the genealogical approach to an analysis of social practices (c) a non-essentialist approach to an ethics of the self; (3) demonstrate the relevance of all three approaches for a critical study of the environment by drawing on each of the subsequent chapters; (4) introduce each of the chapters and integrate them in the Foucaldian conceptual framework. Part 1. The Construction of Environmental Knowledge This section will include four chapters on issues such as: naturalism and environmental knowledge; from nature to sustainable development: the emergence of a discourse on truth; specific historical case studies illustrating the construction of environmental knowledge. Part 2. Environmental Resistance and Normalisation This section will include four chapters on issues such as: case studies of environmental policies attempting to normalise the environmental conduct of the population; case studies of instances of resistance to environmental degradation. Part 3. The Creation of a Green Self: Toward a Non- essentialist Environmental Ethics? This section will include four chapters on issues such as: non-essentialist eco-feminism; green/gender identity; case studies on non-western Green Self; theoretical discussion about non-essentialist environmental ethics. 2. Timeframe * Deadline for submission of the article:15th April 1996 * Final selection of articles and suggested revision to authors by 30th June 1996 * Final manuscript ready by 31st August 1996 * Publication by end of 1996 / early 1997 3. Length Including the introduction, there will be thirteen chapters in total. Each chapter should be between 6,000 and 7,500 words maximum including notes and bibliography. For further information: *************************************************************************** =C9ric Darier Post-doctoral Fellow Tel. 613-545-6000 ext. 4710 Environmental Policy Unit Fax. 613-545-6630 School of Policy Studies e-mail: ed2-AT-post.queensu.ca Queen's University, Kingston Ontario, K7L 3N6 Canada ***************************************************************************
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