Liquid governmentalities, liquid museums and the climate crisis

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    Abstract

    Climate change governmentality is framed as a problem on the basis of normative views of science and economics; managing populations, their habits and lifestyles, and neoliberal formations where climate change is cast as an economic issue, with market mechanisms offering cost-effective technological solutions. For these reasons Foucauldian and Post Foucauldian governmentality “biopower” and “advanced liberal or neoliberal government” (Foucault 1991; Oels 2005) is widely used by theorists to analyse climate change governance and policy. In this article I critique Foucault’s governmentality frame in climate change governmental analysis, and for the consideration of the roles of cultural institutions ( museums and science centres) in climate governance. I then pose a new theoretical optic and method, liquid governmentalities based on complexity theories (Bauman’s (2000) liquid modernity; Urry’s (2003) global complexity; Deleuze and Guattari (1987) and DeLanda’s (2006) assemblages) as an logic for imagining climate change governance that reflects the complexities, entangled, trans-national and emergent qualities of climate change governmentality flows more clearly articulating the how, ways to proceed.
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationHot Topics, Public Culture, Museums
    EditorsFiona Cameron, Lynda Kelly
    Place of PublicationU.K.
    PublisherCambridge Scholars
    Pages112-128
    Number of pages17
    ISBN (Print)9781443819749
    Publication statusPublished - 2010

    Keywords

    • climatic changes
    • political science

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