The Logic of Geopower

Abstract

Neyrat moves on to reflect on what the attempt at managing the climate, or the popular environmental term of Earth Stewardship, entails and how viewing the Anthropocene through the term of Earth Stewardship can help us to understand what exactly humankind’s position as a major geological force truly implies and how within this logic of geopower we can begin to uncover contradictions that leave us questioning any sort of concept of mankind as distinct from nature. Neyrat shows how seemingly positive connotations of managing or caring for the human within conceptions of Earth Stewardship can become mired within much larger conceptions of what nature is considered to be in distinction from humankind and that the history of the word steward denotes an agent with royal power—showing that within the complicated attempt at Earth Stewardship and climate management, there will no doubt be those who benefit and those who won’t.