Biopolitical Disaster by Jennifer L. Lawrence,Sarah Marie Wiebe -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents List of contributors Foreword Acknowledgements Introduction: Living with disaster

Biopolitical disaster: investigating the entanglements of life and death A conversation on biopolitical disaster The structure of the book References

PART I: Commodifying crisis

Disaster (in)formation Dispersing biopolitical disaster Challenging the governance of biopolitical disaster References

2. Disaster biopolitics and the crisis economy

Introduction Theorizing a crisis economy Catastrophe insurance Community-based disaster management Conclusions: mapping the crisis economy Note References

3. Lives as half-life: The nuclear condition and biopolitical disaster

Introduction The landscapes of nuclearity Nuclearity now Nuclear test subjectivity Nuclear site subjectivity Conclusions References

4. Even natural disasters are unlikely to slow us down …

PART II: Governmentalities of disaster

5. The governmentality of disaster resilience

Two tropes The “art” of disaster resilience From praxis to poiesis Contesting the narrative Conclusion: what’s next? Notes References

6. Catastrophe and catastrophic thought

The catastrophe in the mind Catastrophe Catastrophic thought Conclusion: notes for a dispositif of catastrophism Notes References

PART III: Affected bodies

A prismatic political ecology lens Everyday disaster Attawapiskat Aamjiwnaang Pacheedaht Moving forward: resistance, resurgence and radical democracy References Appendix A: Declaration of Commitment

9. Marginally managed: “Letting die” and fighting back in the oil sands

Introduction Oil sands in context Thinking biopolitically Biopolitics and racism Settler colonialism and biopolitics Resistance and the state Conclusion References

Slash, burn, poison: life at all costs Living with cancer: a state of perpetual emergency Notes References

PART IV: Environmental aesthetics and resistance

Pessimist premise General system failure The transformative strength of the three Foucaults How practices and discourses of the food justice movement illustrate the three Foucaults The biopolitical disaster of industrial agriculture Via Campesina: peasant knowledge, land and power Urban agriculture: eaters’ resistance and practices for a new food system Slow Food: putting eaters’ culture back into “agriculture” Conclusion: get your hands dirty! Acknowledgements References

The political genealogy of sustainable development From security to resilience The disastrous and politically debased subject of resilience Conclusion: development contra neoliberalism? References

15. The aesthetics of triage: Towards life beyond survival

Mechanism of a triage Photographic triage The cinematic triage Beyond survival References

16. End piece: Dealing with disastrous life

Extra/ordinary disasters Dread life Towards a new critical framework? References

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