immer Ärger mit der materialität? – politische Ökologie und das dispositiv der dürre im nordosten
brasiliens
;T. Schmitt
american journal of clinical dermatology2016Vol. 71pp. 229-244
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schmitt2016geographicaimmer
Abstract
While the role of materiality was understudied in most
social sciences, there was a sensibility for these issues in political
ecology. The different approaches of political ecology focused on the
political character of ecology and the ecological (and thus material)
character of politics. But a conceptual framework that captures the
different dimensions of the societal nature relations was seldom explicitly
elaborated. Following the considerations of Michel Foucault, this article
explores whether dispositive analysis as a concept and as a method offers a
way to integrate both social and material conditions into studies of
political ecology. By examining water infrastructure and the dispositive of
drought in Northeastern Brazil, this paper displays how dispositive analysis
is a means to identify different elements, their autonomies as well as their
interconnectedness. Focusing on the entanglements of discourses,
institutionalizations, subjectivity, practices and materiality allows
capturing the materiality of discourses and the discursivity of material
orders.