Lazri DiSalvo

NESPA Annual Meeting April 29, 2011 Hartford, CT

Presentation slides available at: www.ponderaproject.com

What is the effect of global environmental governance at the household level?

How is individual behavior produced through pressures to increase household efficiency?

People are throwing 'green' in front of everything today to sell their programs

~local “green” contractor

Global governmentality is reproduced as global environmentality through knowledge production and discipline, as they relate to the global environmental movement. Namely scientific ecoknowledge and social conserveillance. (Timothy Luke, 1995)

The household becomes a critical, if not the primary, site of world politics as the space where social individuals are produced through global structures of power recreated within the home.

The data for this study were created through a three-month ethnographic study of a run-down, 100 year old, three-family rental property and the various organizations and individuals involved with the design of the home as sustainable, rehabbed, low-income housing...

...owned by my partner and me. Self as site of political inquiry.

The disciplined, scientific study of the natural realm, constructs a knowable environment through the production of eco-knowledge

ecopower: the internalization of the rational management of natural resources to produce subject vis a vis the knowable environment

conserveillance: the internal and external monitoring of environmental resource usage, to guide agent behaviors

Legitimizing marginalized knowledges

Translating experiences

the household is an important site of world politics where global power structures are (re)produced and (re)created

global environmental governance, transformed through global neoliberal hegemony as environmentality, infuses all aspects of daily social life

household studies informed by neoliberal or neorealist perspectives will likely discover quite different mechanisms