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Abstract
This article undertakes a cultural and political examination of the Manifeste pour les ‘produits’ de haute nécessité, a manifesto co-authored by a collective of leading Martiniquan cultural figures, including Patrick Chamoiseau and Édouard Glissant, in response to the general strikes of 2009 in Guadeloupe, Martinique, French Guiana, and Réunion. These strikes focused metropolitan attention on the high cost of living or ‘la vie chère’. After a discussion of the aesthetics of the manifesto, with particular attention to the dichotomy it develops between le prosaïque and le poétique and the wider role of culture in challenging neo-liberalism’s global hold which is advanced by the Manifesto, this article introduces the new methodology of biopolitical ecocriticism. A biopolitical ecocritical reading of the manifesto, building on the biopolitical work of Foucault through reference to ecocriticism and the philosophical works of Edgar Morin and André Gorz, reveals the fundamental links between global governance and natural life, raising urgent questions about the relationship between language, life, the environment, history, and politics.
Original language | English |
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Journal | French Studies |
Volume | 70 |
Issue number | 3 |
Early online date | 5 Jun 2016 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 5 Jun 2016 |
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Invited talk to external network EUROCITIES: Apples in the Caribbean: Food and Francophone Caribbean Literature
Louise Hardwick (Chair)
Feb 2017 → …Activity: Academic and Industrial events › Guest lecture or Invited talk
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Keynote Lecture at University of Durham Institute for Advanced Studies Conference: 'Experiments in Ecocriticism in the Francophone Caribbean'
Louise Hardwick (Keynote speaker)
13 May 2016Activity: Academic and Industrial events › Conference, workshop or symposium
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Small Woods Association
Louise Hardwick (Visitor)
2016 → …Activity: Collaboration with an external institution or individual › Collaboration
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CPD: Volcanoes Summer School at University of Oxford
Louise Hardwick (Advisor)
2016 → …Activity: Consultancy, CPD, training and secondments › Providing training or delivering CPD
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Birmingham Institute of Forest Research (Organisational unit)
Louise Hardwick (Advisor)
2014 → …Activity: Membership › Internal role
Prizes
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Award: EU ClimateKIC Pioneers into Practice
Hardwick, Louise (Recipient), 2016
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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Esteem marker: Marie Curie Alumni Association
Hardwick, Louise (Recipient), 2014
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)