Event

Jun 26, 2025
Amazongraphy: An Ecopolitics of Environmental Crises

This paper introduces Amazongraphy as a critical lens to examine how the "Amazon" is governed not merely as a territory, but as a site of biopolitical and epistemic control. Drawing on Foucault’s governmentality, it analyzes how environmental policies and transnational frameworks embed neoliberal rationalities that depoliticize the forest and marginalize local knowledges. Amazongraphy exposes these power dynamics and calls for counter-conducts that challenge the technocratic governance of life in the Amazon region.

Address
MPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
Room
Room 215
Contact and Registration

The colloquium series is in-person only.

Due to the limited number of seats, registration is required for MPIWG members. Participants from outside the institute are kindly asked to inquire about an available spot. For registration, please contact: Alfred Freeborn.

About This Series

This event is part of the colloquium series of Department II, "Knowledge Systems and Collective Life."

2025-06-26T10:30:00SAVE IN I-CAL 2025-06-26 10:30:00 2025-06-26 12:00:00 Amazongraphy: An Ecopolitics of Environmental Crises This paper introduces Amazongraphy as a critical lens to examine how the "Amazon" is governed not merely as a territory, but as a site of biopolitical and epistemic control. Drawing on Foucault’s governmentality, it analyzes how environmental policies and transnational frameworks embed neoliberal rationalities that depoliticize the forest and marginalize local knowledges. Amazongraphy exposes these power dynamics and calls for counter-conducts that challenge the technocratic governance of life in the Amazon region. MPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany Room 215 Europe/Berlin public