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Green governmentality: insights and opportunities in the study of nature's rule

Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, stephier{at}yorku.ca

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.

Key Words: Foucault • green governmentality • human geography • nature.

Progress in Human Geography, Vol. 31, No. 3, 291-307 (2007)
DOI: 10.1177/0309132507077080


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