Monica’s academic background is in political science (international relations). She has studied Arctic environmental issues and governance including the establishment of the Arctic Council, environmental cooperation in Northwest Russia, politics of climate change adaptation in the Barents region, resilience and poverty in Lapland, and human-nature relations in Arctic urban development. Her work draws on Foucaultian governmentality studies to study complex relations between knowledge, power and agency. Recently, she has explored the potential of post-human approaches to do research about Arctic water governance.
Readings Favorite
My favourites are two articles by Thomas Lemke, a German sociologist and expert on Foucault’s thinking. In the first article, Lemke explains very well Foucault’s critical approach and its promises and limitations. The second article by Lemke was an important for me to find my way to post-human debates.
Lemke, T. (2011). Critique and Experience in Foucault. Theory, Culture & Society, 28(4), 26–48.
Lemke, Thomas (2015). New Materialisms: Foucault and the ‘Government of Things’. Theory, Culture and Society, 32(4), 3-25.
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