Foucault in the forest: Questioning environmentality in Amazonia
2011; Wiley; Volume: 38; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1111/j.1548-1425.2011.01319.x
ISSN1548-1425
Autores Tópico(s)Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
ResumoABSTRACT In this article, I analyze the encounter between the Field Museum of Natural History and Amazonian Ecuador's Cofán people to question the concept of “environmentality”: the idea that environmentalist programs and movements operate as forms of governmentality in Michel Foucault's sense. I argue that, although the Field Museum's community conservation projects constitute a regulatory rationale and technique, they do not transform Cofán subjectivity according to plan. By exploring Cofán people's critical consciousness of environmentalist interventions, I aim to cast doubt on the governmentality paradigm's utility for analyzing the complexities of cultural difference, intercultural encounter, and directed change.
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