Kolson Schlosser
Biographic Data
| ID | 150334 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kolson Schlosser |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kolson |
| FAMILY NAME | Schlosser |
| SIGNATURE | SCHLOSSER K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Temple University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2729-6000 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 52 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Allegory and Articulation in Geographies of Climate Fiction
The contemporary genre of climate fiction can be thought of as the stories we tell ourselves about our changing global climate. Thus, it is important to understand the dynamics behind the production and circulation of those stories. This article first reviews how geographers have begun to analyze these questions with regard to climate fiction. Some analyses reflect a certain “ideology critique,” similar to Fredric Jameson’s theories of allegory, …
Climate change meets the temporalities of capitalism in The Hottest August
Geohumanities and climate change skepticism
The voices of the climate "skeptics" or "deniers" are an unavoidable component of the current politics of climate change. Geographers have engaged with the politics of climate science, the dissemination of scientific knowledge, and how the dominant discourse of climate science frames the debate as apolitical, but they have not directed much attention to climate skeptic literature itself. I suggest that despite this lacunae, geographers have devel…
Anthropocene fictions
Anthropocene fictions: the novel in a time of climate change." Journal of Cultural Geography, 35(1), pp. 149–150
Education and intimate war of position
Critical geosophies
Anne Rice and George Romero are two of the foremost transformative authors of vampire and zombie fiction in the United States. This reading of their work applies a psychotopological lens to the first two novels of Rice's Vampire Chronicles and the first three films of Romero's Living Dead series. It differs from numerous preceding analyses of monster fiction mostly in the theoretical apparatus it articulates to link the psychic fear vampires and …
Apocalyptic Imaginaries, Gramsci, and the Last Man on Earth
Kolson Schlosseraa Temple UniversityKOLSON SCHLOSSER is an Assistant Professor of Instruction in the Department of Geography and Urban Studies at Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19122. E-mail: . His research interests are in political ecology, political economy, and literary geography
Energy security discourses and environmental protection measures in U.S. federal energy legislation
Problems of abstraction and extraction in cultural geography research
If methods are how we answer research questions, then theories are how we know what question to ask. Therefore, all research begins with a necessarily high level of abstraction which then informs decisions about the appropriate targets, goals, and scale at which methods are carried out. Numerous critics have argued that fieldwork should not be extractive, meaning it should not collect data for the benefit of the researcher without returning anyth…
History, scale and the political ecology of ethical diamonds in Kugluktuk, Nunavut
Canadian diamonds are marketed as ethical alternatives to so-called 'conflict diamonds.' This research analyzes a series of focus groups conducted in Kugluktuk, Nunavut, an Inuit town impacted by diamond mining. The article sheds some light on the risks and benefits of mining, but it also examines the broader historical and geographic context of commodity networks for diamonds as an entry point into a critique of the possibility of consumption as…
Regimes of Ethical Value? Landscape, Race and Representation in the Canadian Diamond Industry
Canadian diamonds are marketed as “ethical” alternatives to notorious “blood diamonds”. This paper analyzes the specific matrices through which ethical consumption as a discourse is being mobilized to sell diamonds. I argue that consumption operates as a system of social signification in which consuming subjects are positioned as moral subjects. Moreover, I argue that historically accumulated symbolic power, in the form of imagined geographies of…
Malthus at mid-century
This paper provides a discursive history of neo-Malthusianism in the United States, focusing primarily on the mid-20th century. In the process, I critically examine texts invoking Malthusian arguments in relation to the politics of sex and birth control, class and eugenics, and race and geopolitics, focusing on how they rendered human population growth intelligible in particularly reductive and naturalistic ways. The purpose is to show how this h…
Bio-Political Geographies
This article reviews the debate on bio-politics in order to clarify its many uses and applications in geography. In doing so, I review how bio-politics is conceived by Foucault, Hardt and Negri, and Agamben, as well as how geographers have employed, added to, or disagreed with their insights. More specifically, I structure this review around how various analysts have understood the relationship between bio-political power and 'traditional' forms …
The bio-politics of bodies politic
U.S. National Security Discourse and the Political Construction of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
The controversy concerning oil development in the federally protected Arctic National Wildlife Refuge of Alaska is constituted by actors with multiple perspectives on security. Development of the region is often claimed by the Bush Administration as a national security imperative, necessary to alleviate U.S. dependence on foreign oil. Other participants in the debate, including environmentalists, oil companies, the Alaskan state government, organ…
Regimes of Ethical Value? Landscape, Race and Representation in the Canadian Diamond Industry
Canadian diamonds are marketed as “ethical” alternatives to notorious “blood diamonds”. This paper analyzes the specific matrices through which ethical consumption as a discourse is being mobilized to sell diamonds. I argue that consumption operates as a system of social signification in which consuming subjects are positioned as moral subjects. Moreover, I argue that historically accumulated symbolic power, in the form of imagined geographies of…
Bio-Political Geographies
This article reviews the debate on bio-politics in order to clarify its many uses and applications in geography. In doing so, I review how bio-politics is conceived by Foucault, Hardt and Negri, and Agamben, as well as how geographers have employed, added to, or disagreed with their insights. More specifically, I structure this review around how various analysts have understood the relationship between bio-political power and 'traditional' forms …
Malthus at mid-century
This paper provides a discursive history of neo-Malthusianism in the United States, focusing primarily on the mid-20th century. In the process, I critically examine texts invoking Malthusian arguments in relation to the politics of sex and birth control, class and eugenics, and race and geopolitics, focusing on how they rendered human population growth intelligible in particularly reductive and naturalistic ways. The purpose is to show how this h…
The bio-politics of bodies politic
U.S. National Security Discourse and the Political Construction of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
The controversy concerning oil development in the federally protected Arctic National Wildlife Refuge of Alaska is constituted by actors with multiple perspectives on security. Development of the region is often claimed by the Bush Administration as a national security imperative, necessary to alleviate U.S. dependence on foreign oil. Other participants in the debate, including environmentalists, oil companies, the Alaskan state government, organ…
Critical geosophies
Anne Rice and George Romero are two of the foremost transformative authors of vampire and zombie fiction in the United States. This reading of their work applies a psychotopological lens to the first two novels of Rice's Vampire Chronicles and the first three films of Romero's Living Dead series. It differs from numerous preceding analyses of monster fiction mostly in the theoretical apparatus it articulates to link the psychic fear vampires and …
Apocalyptic Imaginaries, Gramsci, and the Last Man on Earth
Kolson Schlosseraa Temple UniversityKOLSON SCHLOSSER is an Assistant Professor of Instruction in the Department of Geography and Urban Studies at Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19122. E-mail: . His research interests are in political ecology, political economy, and literary geography
Problems of abstraction and extraction in cultural geography research
If methods are how we answer research questions, then theories are how we know what question to ask. Therefore, all research begins with a necessarily high level of abstraction which then informs decisions about the appropriate targets, goals, and scale at which methods are carried out. Numerous critics have argued that fieldwork should not be extractive, meaning it should not collect data for the benefit of the researcher without returning anyth…
Geohumanities and climate change skepticism
The voices of the climate "skeptics" or "deniers" are an unavoidable component of the current politics of climate change. Geographers have engaged with the politics of climate science, the dissemination of scientific knowledge, and how the dominant discourse of climate science frames the debate as apolitical, but they have not directed much attention to climate skeptic literature itself. I suggest that despite this lacunae, geographers have devel…
Education and intimate war of position
Energy security discourses and environmental protection measures in U.S. federal energy legislation
History, scale and the political ecology of ethical diamonds in Kugluktuk, Nunavut
Canadian diamonds are marketed as ethical alternatives to so-called 'conflict diamonds.' This research analyzes a series of focus groups conducted in Kugluktuk, Nunavut, an Inuit town impacted by diamond mining. The article sheds some light on the risks and benefits of mining, but it also examines the broader historical and geographic context of commodity networks for diamonds as an entry point into a critique of the possibility of consumption as…
U.S. National Security Discourse and the Political Construction of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
The controversy concerning oil development in the federally protected Arctic National Wildlife Refuge of Alaska is constituted by actors with multiple perspectives on security. Development of the region is often claimed by the Bush Administration as a national security imperative, necessary to alleviate U.S. dependence on foreign oil. Other participants in the debate, including environmentalists, oil companies, the Alaskan state government, organ…
The bio-politics of bodies politic
Bio-Political Geographies
This article reviews the debate on bio-politics in order to clarify its many uses and applications in geography. In doing so, I review how bio-politics is conceived by Foucault, Hardt and Negri, and Agamben, as well as how geographers have employed, added to, or disagreed with their insights. More specifically, I structure this review around how various analysts have understood the relationship between bio-political power and 'traditional' forms …
Malthus at mid-century
This paper provides a discursive history of neo-Malthusianism in the United States, focusing primarily on the mid-20th century. In the process, I critically examine texts invoking Malthusian arguments in relation to the politics of sex and birth control, class and eugenics, and race and geopolitics, focusing on how they rendered human population growth intelligible in particularly reductive and naturalistic ways. The purpose is to show how this h…
Regimes of Ethical Value? Landscape, Race and Representation in the Canadian Diamond Industry
Canadian diamonds are marketed as “ethical” alternatives to notorious “blood diamonds”. This paper analyzes the specific matrices through which ethical consumption as a discourse is being mobilized to sell diamonds. I argue that consumption operates as a system of social signification in which consuming subjects are positioned as moral subjects. Moreover, I argue that historically accumulated symbolic power, in the form of imagined geographies of…
History, scale and the political ecology of ethical diamonds in Kugluktuk, Nunavut
Canadian diamonds are marketed as ethical alternatives to so-called 'conflict diamonds.' This research analyzes a series of focus groups conducted in Kugluktuk, Nunavut, an Inuit town impacted by diamond mining. The article sheds some light on the risks and benefits of mining, but it also examines the broader historical and geographic context of commodity networks for diamonds as an entry point into a critique of the possibility of consumption as…
Problems of abstraction and extraction in cultural geography research
If methods are how we answer research questions, then theories are how we know what question to ask. Therefore, all research begins with a necessarily high level of abstraction which then informs decisions about the appropriate targets, goals, and scale at which methods are carried out. Numerous critics have argued that fieldwork should not be extractive, meaning it should not collect data for the benefit of the researcher without returning anyth…
Apocalyptic Imaginaries, Gramsci, and the Last Man on Earth
Kolson Schlosseraa Temple UniversityKOLSON SCHLOSSER is an Assistant Professor of Instruction in the Department of Geography and Urban Studies at Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19122. E-mail: . His research interests are in political ecology, political economy, and literary geography
Energy security discourses and environmental protection measures in U.S. federal energy legislation
Anthropocene fictions
Anthropocene fictions: the novel in a time of climate change." Journal of Cultural Geography, 35(1), pp. 149–150
Education and intimate war of position
Critical geosophies
Anne Rice and George Romero are two of the foremost transformative authors of vampire and zombie fiction in the United States. This reading of their work applies a psychotopological lens to the first two novels of Rice's Vampire Chronicles and the first three films of Romero's Living Dead series. It differs from numerous preceding analyses of monster fiction mostly in the theoretical apparatus it articulates to link the psychic fear vampires and …
Geohumanities and climate change skepticism
The voices of the climate "skeptics" or "deniers" are an unavoidable component of the current politics of climate change. Geographers have engaged with the politics of climate science, the dissemination of scientific knowledge, and how the dominant discourse of climate science frames the debate as apolitical, but they have not directed much attention to climate skeptic literature itself. I suggest that despite this lacunae, geographers have devel…
Climate change meets the temporalities of capitalism in The Hottest August
Allegory and Articulation in Geographies of Climate Fiction
The contemporary genre of climate fiction can be thought of as the stories we tell ourselves about our changing global climate. Thus, it is important to understand the dynamics behind the production and circulation of those stories. This article first reviews how geographers have begun to analyze these questions with regard to climate fiction. Some analyses reflect a certain “ideology critique,” similar to Fredric Jameson’s theories of allegory, …
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