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"Most of the phenomena described in this book have arisen as a result of various crises, disasters, threats, and forms of violence (such as wars, refugee crises, and political regimes, but also devastating practices of the anthropogenic drive and environmental pollution). Others are a form of response to new political, social and cultural changes that we are experiencing due to the rapid development of technology or progressive economic stratification. The research perspective proposed in Postcollectivity draws on the authors' approaches, combining academic and theoretical discourse with social engagement and artistic practice with critical thought. Contributors are: Harshavardhan Bhat, Stephen Dersley, Adela Goldbard, Carly E. Gray, Agnieszka Jelewska, Peter H. Kahn, Jr., Michał Krawczak, Grant Leuning, Ania Malinowska, Anna Nacher, Andrzej W. Nowak, Julian Reid, Pepe Rojo, Sarena Sabine, Jens Schröter, Jan Stasieńko and Brett Zehner"--

This book offers an original analytic and theorization of the biopolitics of development in the postcolonial present, and draws significantly from the later works of Michel Foucault on biopolitics. Foucault's works have had a massive influence on postcolonial literatures, particularly in political science and international relations, and several authors of this book have themselves made significant contributions to that influence. While Foucault's thought has been inspirational for understanding colonial biopolitics as well as governmental rationalities concerned with development, his works have too often failed to inspire studies of political subjectivity. Instead, they have been used to stoke the myth of the inevitability of the decline of collective political subjects, often describing an increasingly limited horizon of political possibilities, and provoking a disenchantment with the political itself in postcolonial works and studies. Working against the grain of current Foucauldian scholarship, this book underlines the importance of Foucault's work for the capacity to recognize how this degraded view of political subjectivity came about, particularly within the framework of the discourses and politics of development, and with particular attention to the predicaments of postcolonial peoples. It explores how we can use Foucault's ideas to recover the vital capacity to think and act politically at a time when fundamentally human capacities to think, know and to act purposively in the world are being pathologized as expressions of the hubris and underdevelopment of postcolonial peoples. Why and how it is that life in postcolonial settings has been depoliticized to such dramatic effect? The immediacy of these themes will be obvious to anyone living in the South of the world. But within the academy they remain heavily under-addressed. In thinking about what it means to read Michel Foucault today, this book tackles some significant questions and problems: Not simply that of how to explain the ways in which postcolonial regimes of governance have achieved the debasements of political subjectivity they have; nor that of how we might better equip them with the means to suborn the life of postcolonial peoples more fully; but that of how such peoples, in their subjection to governance, can and do resist, subvert, escape and defy the imposition of modes of governance which seek to remove their lives of those very capacities for resistance, subversion, flight, and defiance.

Az egyik fő narratíva, amelynek révén (legalábbis a nyugati világban) az ukrajnai háborút keretbe foglalták, Ukrajna rezilienciája volt. Például Antony Blinken, az Egyesült Államok külügyminisztere a BBC-nek adott, 2022. március 5-én megjelent interjújában az orosz katonai erők ellen harcoló hétköznapi ukránok "rendkívüli rezilienciáját" dicsérte (BBC 2022). A nyugati média tele volt az ukránokat az orosz invázióval járó rendkívüli viszontagságokkal szemben "reziliensnek" minősítő híradásokkal (Sauer 2022). Közben olyan képek keringtek, amelyeken a civil ukránok ellenállnak az orosz katonai erőknek, Molotov-koktélokat dobálnak az ellenséges tankokra és orosz katonai járművekre vizelnek (India Herald 2022). Ikonikus módon a Time magazin március 28-i számának borítóján, amelyen "A reziliens Ukrajna" főcím szerepelt, egy ukrán menekült gyermekről készült 45 méteres fotó képe látható, amelyet több mint száz ember tartott fel a lvovi operaház előtt (Time 2022). Mindezek hozzájárultak az Ukrajna kiemelkedő rezilienciájáról alkotott kép elterjedéséhez. Maguk az ukránok is továbbírták ezt a narratívát azzal, hogy hangsúlyozták saját rezilienciájukat. Ahogyan egy ukrán politikai elemző, Roman Rukomeda fogalmazott: "[Ez a] háború nagy megvilágosodás az ukránok számára önmagukról és rezilienciájukról. Következetesen alábecsültük a jellemünket, a kölcsönös támogatásra való készségünket, az egymás iránti empátiánkat és értékeinket" (Rukomeda 2022).

Context
The Australian cotton industry has committed to (1) understanding the biodiversity value of remnant native vegetation on cotton farms, (2) funding independent, evidence-based assessments of the industry's sustainability and environmental performance, and (3) investing in research that reports against recognised sustainability indicators.

Aims
The present study reports the results of an industry-wide survey to benchmark bird diversity in native vegetation on cotton farms spanning a 1260-km north–south subcontinental gradient from Central Queensland (Qld) to Southern New South Wales (NSW).

Methods
Between September and November 2014, birds were sampled twice on separate days in 2-ha quadrats (20 min per census) in eight remnant vegetation types as well as in native revegetation at 197 sites on 60 cotton farms spread across the principal cotton-growing zones (Central Qld, Border Rivers, Macquarie and Southern NSW) in inland eastern Australia.


Key results
We recorded 185 bird species in remnant and planted native vegetation on cotton farms. Species richness of bird communities declined from north to south. Bird community composition was similar in the three southern zones, differing somewhat in the north. The most frequent species were large (>60 g), readily detected landbirds common in agricultural districts, but 26 of the 53 extant species of conservation concern in the study region were also recorded, including 16 species of declining woodland birds. Bird composition, abundance, richness and diversity differed among the nine native vegetation types, with maximal and minimal bird abundance and diversity metrics recorded in river red gum-dominated riparian vegetation and grassland respectively.


Conclusions
Each remnant vegetation community had a generally distinct bird assemblage, indicating that all vegetation types contribute to regional biodiversity in cotton-growing zones in inland eastern Australia. Appropriate on-farm management of all remnant and planted native vegetation will assist regional biodiversity conservation.


Implications
For the Australian cotton industry to meet its stated environmental responsibilities, growers should be encouraged to prioritise the conservation management of remnant, riparian and planted native vegetation on cotton farms and the monitoring of bird species as an indicator of regional biodiversity response.

1. Introduction: Disputing Weberian Semantics, Nicolas Lemay-Hébert, Nicholas Onuf and Vojin Rakić/1 . - 2. World-Making, State-Building, Nicholas Onuf/ 19 . - 3. Politics, Law, and the Sacred: A Conceptual Analysis, Friedrich Kratochwil/ 37 . - 4. Kant's Semantics of World (State) Making, Vojin Rakić/ 59 . - 5. The semantics of early statebuilding: Why the Eurasian steppe has been overlooked, Iver B. Neumann/ 74 . - 6. The Semantics of Statebuilding and Nationbuilding: Looking Beyond Neo-Weberian Approaches, Nicolas Lemay-Hébert/ 89 . - 7. Transformative Statebuilding, Occupation, and International Law: Friends or Foes?, Jan Wouters and Kenneth Chan/ 106 . - 8. The Semantics of 'Crisis Management': Simulation and EU Statebuilding in the Balkans, David Chandler/ 119 . - 9. The Semantics of Contemporary Statebuilding: Kosovo, Timor-Leste, and the 'Empty-Shell' Approach, Nicolas Lemay-Hébert/ 135 . - 10.The 'Crisis of Capitalism' and the State - More Powerful, Less Responsible, Invariably Legitimate, Albena Azmanova/ 150 . - 11.The Neoliberal Biopolitics of Resilience and the Spectre of the Ecofascist State, Julian Reid/ 163