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Green governmentality: insights and opportunities in the study of nature's rule
Abstract
This article seeks to unpack notions of governmentality by reading it through the case of nature. By highlighting three key aspects of governmentality — its analytics of power, biopolitics, and technologies of the self — I argue that this approach presents a promising theoretical trend for those who study nature and its rule. However, there have been critiques leveled at this approach which must be considered. Using examples drawn from human/non-human interactions, I explore how the governmentality literature needs to be made more complex and attune to difference. In the final analysis, I argue that the concept of governmentality is not only an effective tool for geographers, but that geography provides a particularly insightful lens with its attention to spatiality, scale, territory and human/non-human relations that enrich the analysis of the making of governable spaces.
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- Authors
- Rutherford, S.
- Venue
- Progress in Human Geography
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2007-06
- Volume
- 31
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 291-307
- ISSN
- 0309-1325 (ISSN-L)
- 1477-0288
- OpenAlex
- W2135703731
- Cited by
- 391
- References
- 35
- FWCI
- 36.13
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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