TY  - CHAP
AB  - This preliminary survey begins to probe a few purposes and practices of “Earth System Science” to rethink the ways in which Nature is “taken into account” by this new power/knowledge formation. The workings of “environmentality,” or green governmentality (Luke, 1999c), and the dispositions of environmental accountancy regimes depend increasingly on the development and deployment of such reconceptualized interdisciplinary sciences (Briden & Downing, 2002). These practices have gained much more cohesion as a technoscience network since 2001 Amsterdam Conference on Global Climate Change Open Science. Due to its brevity, this study is neither an exhaustive history nor an extensive sociology of either Earth System Science or the new post-2001 Earth System Science Partnership (ESSP), which acquired new legitimacy during and after this professional-technical congress. Instead this critique reexamines these disciplinary developments to explore the curious condition of their rapid assembly and gradual acceptance as credible technoscience formations. This reevaluation allows one, at the same time, to speculate about the emergent interests hoping to gain hold over such power/knowledge programs for managing security, territory, and population on a planetary scale (Burchell, Gordon, & Miller, 1991; Foucault, 1991c, pp. 87–104).
VL  - 26
SN  - 978-1-84950-606-9, 978-1-84950-605-2/0278-1204
DO  - 10.1108/S0278-1204(2009)0000026008
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/S0278-1204(2009)0000026008
AU  - Luke Timothy W.
ED  - Harry F. Dahms
PY  - 2009
Y1  - 2009/01/01
TI  - Developing planetarian accountancy: Fabricating nature as stock, service, and system for green governmentality
T2  - Nature, Knowledge and Negation
T3  - Current Perspectives in Social Theory
PB  - Emerald Group Publishing Limited
SP  - 129
EP  - 159
Y2  - 2024/04/25
ER  -