Governmentality, environmental subjectivity, and urban intensification
This article delineates concepts of eco-modernisation and urban sustainability (including its associated discourses), elucidating Foucault's notion of governmentality and examining select moments of contested urban governance in the neighbourhood of Old Ottawa South, in Ottawa, Ontario,
Canada. It shows how intensification – a “compact city approach” to urban sustainability – as both policy and practice, serves to both discipline and regulate by “conducting the conduct” of environmental and entrepreneurial subjects. It reveals that zoning
has more explicitly become a political technology (albeit a flexible one) for achieving “highest and best use” of private property, privileging intensification projects proposed by developers, through a hierarchical exercise of state power that privileges market processes, while
undermining community values and priorities.
Keywords: governmentality; urban governance; urban intensification; urban planning; urban sustainability
Document Type: Research Article
Affiliations: 1: Geography,York University, N430 Ross Building, 4700 Keele StreetToronto,Ontario, CanadaM3J 1P3, 2: Geography and Environmental Studies,Carleton University, Loeb B349, 1125 Colonel By DriveOttawa,Ontario, CanadaK1S 5B6,
Publication date: 01 February 2013
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