Making land to make life: island‐building in the South China Sea and the biopolitics of geophysical transformation

摘要: Recent work in environmental politics has sought to expand the domain of ‘the geopolitical’ include geologic transformation, bringing human alteration terrestrial, oceanic, and atmospheric forms into political sphere. In line with this ‘geologic turn’, paper examines China's recent land reclamation efforts South China Sea as a starting point for broader conversation on geophysical change. With discussion geoengineering avert consequences climate change, we reaffirm calls address questions participation, equity accountability geoengineering, but also challenge assumptions what is being modified, by whom, whom. To that end, argue modification environment an expression not only (of territory resources), biopolitics seeks reclaim perfect populations: making life letting die.