Stephanie Rutherford
Biographic Data
| ID | 3759477 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephanie Rutherford |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephanie |
| FAMILY NAME | Rutherford |
| SIGNATURE | RUTHERFORD S |
| AFFILIATIONS | York University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 259 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Mapping for change: Balancing big and small data in documenting environmental (in)justice in a small Canadian city
This article recounts the development of an ongoing community‐engaged research project that maps environmental injustice in Peterborough/Nogojiwanong, Ontario. Drawing insight and inspiration from the activism and scholarship in environmental injustice in Canada and a specific understanding of environmental injustice as slow violence, this project seeks to understand how community members experience environmental risk. In this article we explore …
Historical Animal Geographies
Environmentality and Green Governmentality
Environmentality, or green governmentality, offers a way of thinking about how power works through the construction of the environment, its problems, and the solution to those problems. The concept emerged in the 1990s and has been applied to a wide array of environmental questions. Environmentality is most keenly focused on how regimes of truth are made, how strategies of regulation are formed, and how human subjectivities are enacted with refer…
Geography and Biopolitics
This article is the second of a two-part exploration of the question of biopolitics and its importance to social geography. First, this paper examines two main threads-biopolitical geopolitics and vital geographies-to think about the different ways this analytical register has been applied. Next, we draw on our own research and that of others to suggest the possibilities for an affirmative biopolitics. Finally, we contend that geography is well-p…
The Confusions and Exuberances of Biopolitics
This paper is the first of a two-part exploration of the significance of biopolitics to the study of geography. Our first paper surveys the emergent field of biopolitics by looking at the philosophical underpinnings of the concept and some of the ways in which scholars, including geographers, have utilized the concept as an analytical tool. Throughout the papers, we make the argument for a greater degree of empirical rigor and conceptual clarity …
Science and Storytelling: Al Gore and the Climate Debate
This chapter focuses on the construction of climate change discourse by examining the personage and work of Al Gore. An Inconvenient Truth relies on the impartiality and unquestioned truth of science to warn of impending global apocalypse, reinscribing the pre-eminence of this way of understanding nonhuman nature. An Inconvenient Truth and the persona of Al Gore offer an ethics of the self, an individualized form of green governmentality. Gore ac…
Non‐representational Theory: Space, Politics, Affect – By Nigel THRIFT
Governing the Wild: Ecotours of Power
Take four emblematic American scenes: the Hall of Biodiversity at the American Museum of Natural History in New York; Disney's Animal Kingdom theme park in Orlando; an ecotour of Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks; the film An Inconvenient Truth. Other than expressing a common interest in the environment, they seem quite dissimilar. And yet, as this book makes clear, these sites are all manifestations of green governmentality, each seekin…
Green governmentality: Insights and Opportunities in the Study of Nature's Rule
This article seeks to unpack notions of governmentality by reading it through the case of nature. By highlighting three key aspects of governmentality - its analytics of power, biopolitics, and technologies of the self - I argue that this approach presents a promising theoretical trend for those who study nature and its rule. However, there have been critiques leveled at this approach which must be considered. Using examples drawn from human/non-…
Green governmentality: Insights and Opportunities in the Study of Nature's Rule
This article seeks to unpack notions of governmentality by reading it through the case of nature. By highlighting three key aspects of governmentality - its analytics of power, biopolitics, and technologies of the self - I argue that this approach presents a promising theoretical trend for those who study nature and its rule. However, there have been critiques leveled at this approach which must be considered. Using examples drawn from human/non-…
Governing the Wild: Ecotours of Power
Take four emblematic American scenes: the Hall of Biodiversity at the American Museum of Natural History in New York; Disney's Animal Kingdom theme park in Orlando; an ecotour of Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks; the film An Inconvenient Truth. Other than expressing a common interest in the environment, they seem quite dissimilar. And yet, as this book makes clear, these sites are all manifestations of green governmentality, each seekin…
Geography and Biopolitics
This article is the second of a two-part exploration of the question of biopolitics and its importance to social geography. First, this paper examines two main threads-biopolitical geopolitics and vital geographies-to think about the different ways this analytical register has been applied. Next, we draw on our own research and that of others to suggest the possibilities for an affirmative biopolitics. Finally, we contend that geography is well-p…
The Confusions and Exuberances of Biopolitics
This paper is the first of a two-part exploration of the significance of biopolitics to the study of geography. Our first paper surveys the emergent field of biopolitics by looking at the philosophical underpinnings of the concept and some of the ways in which scholars, including geographers, have utilized the concept as an analytical tool. Throughout the papers, we make the argument for a greater degree of empirical rigor and conceptual clarity …
Green governmentality: Insights and Opportunities in the Study of Nature's Rule
This article seeks to unpack notions of governmentality by reading it through the case of nature. By highlighting three key aspects of governmentality - its analytics of power, biopolitics, and technologies of the self - I argue that this approach presents a promising theoretical trend for those who study nature and its rule. However, there have been critiques leveled at this approach which must be considered. Using examples drawn from human/non-…
Science and Storytelling: Al Gore and the Climate Debate
This chapter focuses on the construction of climate change discourse by examining the personage and work of Al Gore. An Inconvenient Truth relies on the impartiality and unquestioned truth of science to warn of impending global apocalypse, reinscribing the pre-eminence of this way of understanding nonhuman nature. An Inconvenient Truth and the persona of Al Gore offer an ethics of the self, an individualized form of green governmentality. Gore ac…
Non‐representational Theory: Space, Politics, Affect – By Nigel THRIFT
Governing the Wild: Ecotours of Power
Take four emblematic American scenes: the Hall of Biodiversity at the American Museum of Natural History in New York; Disney's Animal Kingdom theme park in Orlando; an ecotour of Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks; the film An Inconvenient Truth. Other than expressing a common interest in the environment, they seem quite dissimilar. And yet, as this book makes clear, these sites are all manifestations of green governmentality, each seekin…
Geography and Biopolitics
This article is the second of a two-part exploration of the question of biopolitics and its importance to social geography. First, this paper examines two main threads-biopolitical geopolitics and vital geographies-to think about the different ways this analytical register has been applied. Next, we draw on our own research and that of others to suggest the possibilities for an affirmative biopolitics. Finally, we contend that geography is well-p…
The Confusions and Exuberances of Biopolitics
This paper is the first of a two-part exploration of the significance of biopolitics to the study of geography. Our first paper surveys the emergent field of biopolitics by looking at the philosophical underpinnings of the concept and some of the ways in which scholars, including geographers, have utilized the concept as an analytical tool. Throughout the papers, we make the argument for a greater degree of empirical rigor and conceptual clarity …
Environmentality and Green Governmentality
Environmentality, or green governmentality, offers a way of thinking about how power works through the construction of the environment, its problems, and the solution to those problems. The concept emerged in the 1990s and has been applied to a wide array of environmental questions. Environmentality is most keenly focused on how regimes of truth are made, how strategies of regulation are formed, and how human subjectivities are enacted with refer…
Historical Animal Geographies
Mapping for change: Balancing big and small data in documenting environmental (in)justice in a small Canadian city
This article recounts the development of an ongoing community‐engaged research project that maps environmental injustice in Peterborough/Nogojiwanong, Ontario. Drawing insight and inspiration from the activism and scholarship in environmental injustice in Canada and a specific understanding of environmental injustice as slow violence, this project seeks to understand how community members experience environmental risk. In this article we explore …
Sociology (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · Politics (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Biopower (3 works) · Environmental ethics (3 works)