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This chapter studies the problem of environmental security through Michel Foucault’s concept of governmentality. For Foucault, the government is ‘the conduct of conduct’ — a form of activity aimed at shaping, guiding or affecting the conduct of some person or persons. The governed is ‘a sort of complex composed of men and things.’ The relations to be governed are many: men in their relations and their links to wealth, resources, the means of subsistence and climate; men in their relations with other things, customs, habits, ways of acting and thinking, and lastly, men in their relation to accidents, misfortunes, famines, epidemics, and death. Governmental rationality aims at the ‘right disposition of things to be governed’ leading to ‘a convenient end for the governed,’ not for some common good (Foucault 1991a: 93).
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Tennberg, M. (2002). Environmental Threats, Governmentality and Security in Northern Europe. In: Hedegaard, L., Lindström, B., Joenniemi, P., Östhol, A., Peschel, K., Stålvant, CE. (eds) The NEBI YEARBOOK 2001/2002. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-13181-7_18
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