Enterprising nature
By J. Dempsey. Dialogues in Human Geography, 2016
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How are ‘lives worth living, lives worth not dying, lives worthy of investment, and lives not worth being born’ (Murphy, 2017: 7) designated, perpetuated, and resisted? The designation of some as ‘not worth investing in’ or ‘not worth being born’ is one that applies, persistently, to nonhumans as much as humans—we are living in a time of growing ecological impoverishment. I understand enterprising nature as a part of an ongoing planetary struggle over what nonhuman lives will be designated as ‘worthy of investment’ through the use of economic and market-based techniques, models, and policies; it is an effort to transform the contributions of ecosystems into the standardized, quantified form of dollars and cents. And the book situates this rise within a longer history of liberal environmentalism.
Subfields: Cultural Studies, Literature and Literary Theory, Sociology and Political Science
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- 'Staying with the trouble' in child-insect-educator common worlds (2017, background): “The colonial dualism of a pure ‘wild’ nature separate from human culture is what creates these spaces of enclosure and practices of control, ‘conservation,’ invasion-management, and captivity (Bell and Russell 2000; Collard 2012; Dempsey 2016; van Dooren 2015; Fawcett 2013).”