Managing the planet under capitalism: a political scientific reflection on Jason W. Moore’s concept of geo-managerialism
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https://doi.org/10.34767/SIIP.2024.01.02Keywords:
eo-managerialism, eco-managerialism, environmental management, capitalism, technologyAbstract
The hegemony of management discourse in contemporary approach to solving the global environmental crisis has been noticed by numerous scholars, but most of its critique is ahistorical. However, it has to have some lineage, which could be traced as far as the first emanations of managing nature. The article is therefore a proposal to search for that lineage within capitalism’s inherent feature of always trending towards management through the separation of knowledge and labour. If managing nature through science, technology, the economy and the state forms the basis for human activity within the web of life, then the will for more and better management becomes the most obvious solution. Jason W. Moore’s concept of geo-managerialism is used here in order to frame together the problems of the dominance of eco-managerialism, the instrumentality of science and subordination of the state.
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