Discourses of the Environment

This book is the first to provide students with critical understandings of the environment using a range of theoretical perspectives inspired from Michel Foucault.

Contributors. Acknowledgements. 1. Foucault and The Environment: An Introduction: Eric Darier. Part I Histories:. 2."The Entry Of Life Into History": Foucault And Ecological Governmentality: Paul Rutherford. 3. Medicine, Health And The Environment: The Construction Of Environmental "Awareness": Isabelle Lanthier And Lawrence Olivier. 4. Sex At The Limits: Population, Environmentalism, And Late Capitalism: Catriona Sandilands. 5. Ecological Modernisation And Environmental Risk: Foucault And Recent Social Theory: Paul Rutherford. Part II Environmentalities:. 6. Environmentality As Green Governmentality Geo-Power, Eco-Knowledge And Enviro-Discipline As Tactics Of Normalisation: Timothy W. Luke. 7. Northern Plains Boulder Structures: Art And Foucauldian Heterotopias: Thomas Heyd. 8. The Practice Of The Green Subjects: Nature Writing As Self-Technology: Sylvia Bowerbank. Part III Resistances:. 9. Nature As Dangerous Space: Foucault's Challenge To Marxism, Liberal Humanism And The General Call For 'Grounded Responsibility': Peter Quigley. 10. Foucault's Unnatural Ecology: Neil Levy. 11. Foucault Against Environmental Ethics: Toward A Green Aesthetic Of Existence?: Eric Darier. Bibliography. Index.