C Biermann
Biographic Data
| ID | 25598 |
|---|---|
| NAME | C Biermann |
| GIVEN NAMES | C |
| FAMILY NAME | Biermann |
| SIGNATURE | BIERMANN C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Colorado Colorado Springs |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0821-755X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 304 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1947 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Critical Physical Geography: A Decade in Review
This article examines the first decade of work in Critical Physical Geography (CPG): an approach that integrates study of biophysical landscapes and the human structural inequalities that together coconstruct the environment. Based on a bibliometric analysis of 255 articles and book chapters that cite core CPG texts and 138 theses and dissertations that include CPG in their title, abstract, or keywords, we examine how the field has grown and chan…
Changing Climates, Conservation Genetics, and Protected Areas in the Northern Rockies
Parks and protected areas provide baselines for ecological restoration and conservation, even though many of these sites are heavily managed and curated spaces, subject to wide-ranging anthropogenic impacts and control. As climates change, historical baselines become less tenable, creating new geographies of conservation, many of which are reconfigured by the application of emergent genetic technologies. This shift raises challenging practical an…
Ecological Restoration, Genetics, Genomics, and Environmental Governance
Ecological restoration increasingly relies on genetic tools and technologies to identify distinct populations, monitor populations, and even modify organisms to improve fitness. In this article, we review the role of genetic and genomic technologies in restoration and conservation, using the restoration of cutthroat trout in the Western United States as one example. Reducing restoration and conservation directives to the molecular scale often rel…
Practicing critical physical geography: New trading zones and interactional expertise in an expanding field
Wild, Native, or Pure: Trout as Genetic Bodies
Advances in genetics and genomics have raised new questions in trout restoration and management, specifically about species identity and purity, which fish to value, and where these fish belong. This paper examines how this molecular turn in fisheries management is influencing wild and native trout policy in Colorado. Examples from two small Colorado watersheds, Bear Creek and Sand Creek, illustrate how framing trout as genetic bodies can guide m…
Putting the Anthropocene into Practice: Methodological Implications
The foundational premise of the Anthropocene, constant across the range of proposed definitions, is that the biophysical world is now profoundly social. This carries substantive methodological implications: If the environment is ecosocial, surely the way it is studied must be, too. Yet, as our bibliometric analysis demonstrates, the bulk of academic articles on the Anthropocene published between 2002 and 2019 focus on its conceptual implications …
The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Physical Geography
Rebecca Lave, Christine Biermann, and Stuart N. Lane, eds. London, UK: Palgrave, 2018. xxxii and 594 pp., maps, photos, diagrams, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $239.00 cloth (ISBN 978
Conservation, biopolitics, and the governance of life and death
The politics of environmental conservation has long been a key concern for human and environmental geographers. Recently, geographers have begun to employ Foucauldian insights on biopower and biopolitics to understand conservation's changing agendas, techniques, and logics, focusing on the specific ways in which non-human nature is ordered, ranked, and promoted. This review examines how four domains of conservation-endangered species management, …
Securing forests from the scourge of chestnut blight: The biopolitics of nature and nation
Environmental Politics After Nature: Conflicting Socioecological Futures
This article is about the logic and dynamics of environmental politics when the environment at stake is profoundly socioecological. We investigate the socioecological forests of the coalfields of Appalachian Ohio, where once decimated forests are again widespread. Conceptualizing forests as power-laden relationships among various people, trees, and other nonhumans, we identify multiple distinct forest types that currently exist as both material r…
Biodiversity, Purity, and Death: Conservation Biology as Biopolitics
This paper draws on the Foucauldian notion of biopower to renarrate the development of conservation science in the US as a form of liberal biopolitical rule. With its emphasis on making nature live, conservation marks a shift away from a sovereign form of rule that emphasized subduing and controlling nature; today, nature is ruled not by the sword but by science. Through a discussion of key concepts in conservation biology-populations in crisis; …
Intervention: Critical physical geography
A recent opinion piece rekindled debate as to whether geography's current interdisciplinary make-up is a historical relic or an actual and potential source of intellectual vitality. Taking the latter position, we argue here for the benefits of sustained integration of physical and critical human geography. For reasons both political and pragmatic, we term this area of intermingled research and practice critical physical geography (CPG). CPG combi…
Divisions régionales du Canton de Vaud
No abstract available
Le Léman comme frontière
No abstract available
Les toits de la suisse au point de vue géographique
No abstract available
Intervention: Critical physical geography
A recent opinion piece rekindled debate as to whether geography's current interdisciplinary make-up is a historical relic or an actual and potential source of intellectual vitality. Taking the latter position, we argue here for the benefits of sustained integration of physical and critical human geography. For reasons both political and pragmatic, we term this area of intermingled research and practice critical physical geography (CPG). CPG combi…
Biodiversity, Purity, and Death: Conservation Biology as Biopolitics
This paper draws on the Foucauldian notion of biopower to renarrate the development of conservation science in the US as a form of liberal biopolitical rule. With its emphasis on making nature live, conservation marks a shift away from a sovereign form of rule that emphasized subduing and controlling nature; today, nature is ruled not by the sword but by science. Through a discussion of key concepts in conservation biology-populations in crisis; …
Conservation, biopolitics, and the governance of life and death
The politics of environmental conservation has long been a key concern for human and environmental geographers. Recently, geographers have begun to employ Foucauldian insights on biopower and biopolitics to understand conservation's changing agendas, techniques, and logics, focusing on the specific ways in which non-human nature is ordered, ranked, and promoted. This review examines how four domains of conservation-endangered species management, …
Environmental Politics After Nature: Conflicting Socioecological Futures
This article is about the logic and dynamics of environmental politics when the environment at stake is profoundly socioecological. We investigate the socioecological forests of the coalfields of Appalachian Ohio, where once decimated forests are again widespread. Conceptualizing forests as power-laden relationships among various people, trees, and other nonhumans, we identify multiple distinct forest types that currently exist as both material r…
Securing forests from the scourge of chestnut blight: The biopolitics of nature and nation
Putting the Anthropocene into Practice: Methodological Implications
The foundational premise of the Anthropocene, constant across the range of proposed definitions, is that the biophysical world is now profoundly social. This carries substantive methodological implications: If the environment is ecosocial, surely the way it is studied must be, too. Yet, as our bibliometric analysis demonstrates, the bulk of academic articles on the Anthropocene published between 2002 and 2019 focus on its conceptual implications …
Wild, Native, or Pure: Trout as Genetic Bodies
Advances in genetics and genomics have raised new questions in trout restoration and management, specifically about species identity and purity, which fish to value, and where these fish belong. This paper examines how this molecular turn in fisheries management is influencing wild and native trout policy in Colorado. Examples from two small Colorado watersheds, Bear Creek and Sand Creek, illustrate how framing trout as genetic bodies can guide m…
Ecological Restoration, Genetics, Genomics, and Environmental Governance
Ecological restoration increasingly relies on genetic tools and technologies to identify distinct populations, monitor populations, and even modify organisms to improve fitness. In this article, we review the role of genetic and genomic technologies in restoration and conservation, using the restoration of cutthroat trout in the Western United States as one example. Reducing restoration and conservation directives to the molecular scale often rel…
Practicing critical physical geography: New trading zones and interactional expertise in an expanding field
Les toits de la suisse au point de vue géographique
No abstract available
Le Léman comme frontière
No abstract available
Divisions régionales du Canton de Vaud
No abstract available
Intervention: Critical physical geography
A recent opinion piece rekindled debate as to whether geography's current interdisciplinary make-up is a historical relic or an actual and potential source of intellectual vitality. Taking the latter position, we argue here for the benefits of sustained integration of physical and critical human geography. For reasons both political and pragmatic, we term this area of intermingled research and practice critical physical geography (CPG). CPG combi…
Biodiversity, Purity, and Death: Conservation Biology as Biopolitics
This paper draws on the Foucauldian notion of biopower to renarrate the development of conservation science in the US as a form of liberal biopolitical rule. With its emphasis on making nature live, conservation marks a shift away from a sovereign form of rule that emphasized subduing and controlling nature; today, nature is ruled not by the sword but by science. Through a discussion of key concepts in conservation biology-populations in crisis; …
Environmental Politics After Nature: Conflicting Socioecological Futures
This article is about the logic and dynamics of environmental politics when the environment at stake is profoundly socioecological. We investigate the socioecological forests of the coalfields of Appalachian Ohio, where once decimated forests are again widespread. Conceptualizing forests as power-laden relationships among various people, trees, and other nonhumans, we identify multiple distinct forest types that currently exist as both material r…
Securing forests from the scourge of chestnut blight: The biopolitics of nature and nation
Conservation, biopolitics, and the governance of life and death
The politics of environmental conservation has long been a key concern for human and environmental geographers. Recently, geographers have begun to employ Foucauldian insights on biopower and biopolitics to understand conservation's changing agendas, techniques, and logics, focusing on the specific ways in which non-human nature is ordered, ranked, and promoted. This review examines how four domains of conservation-endangered species management, …
The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Physical Geography
Rebecca Lave, Christine Biermann, and Stuart N. Lane, eds. London, UK: Palgrave, 2018. xxxii and 594 pp., maps, photos, diagrams, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $239.00 cloth (ISBN 978
Wild, Native, or Pure: Trout as Genetic Bodies
Advances in genetics and genomics have raised new questions in trout restoration and management, specifically about species identity and purity, which fish to value, and where these fish belong. This paper examines how this molecular turn in fisheries management is influencing wild and native trout policy in Colorado. Examples from two small Colorado watersheds, Bear Creek and Sand Creek, illustrate how framing trout as genetic bodies can guide m…
Putting the Anthropocene into Practice: Methodological Implications
The foundational premise of the Anthropocene, constant across the range of proposed definitions, is that the biophysical world is now profoundly social. This carries substantive methodological implications: If the environment is ecosocial, surely the way it is studied must be, too. Yet, as our bibliometric analysis demonstrates, the bulk of academic articles on the Anthropocene published between 2002 and 2019 focus on its conceptual implications …
Practicing critical physical geography: New trading zones and interactional expertise in an expanding field
Ecological Restoration, Genetics, Genomics, and Environmental Governance
Ecological restoration increasingly relies on genetic tools and technologies to identify distinct populations, monitor populations, and even modify organisms to improve fitness. In this article, we review the role of genetic and genomic technologies in restoration and conservation, using the restoration of cutthroat trout in the Western United States as one example. Reducing restoration and conservation directives to the molecular scale often rel…
Changing Climates, Conservation Genetics, and Protected Areas in the Northern Rockies
Parks and protected areas provide baselines for ecological restoration and conservation, even though many of these sites are heavily managed and curated spaces, subject to wide-ranging anthropogenic impacts and control. As climates change, historical baselines become less tenable, creating new geographies of conservation, many of which are reconfigured by the application of emergent genetic technologies. This shift raises challenging practical an…
Critical Physical Geography: A Decade in Review
This article examines the first decade of work in Critical Physical Geography (CPG): an approach that integrates study of biophysical landscapes and the human structural inequalities that together coconstruct the environment. Based on a bibliometric analysis of 255 articles and book chapters that cite core CPG texts and 138 theses and dissertations that include CPG in their title, abstract, or keywords, we examine how the field has grown and chan…
Sociology (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · Biology (5 works) · Ecology (5 works) · Environmental ethics (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Geography (4 works) · Biopower (3 works) · Environmental Philosophy and Ethics (3 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (3 works)