ABSTRACT
Following the previous two chapters, which have outlined the need to adopt a less exclusive reading of International Relations (IR) and to adopt an ecological perspective, this chapter aims to demonstrate how an approach adopted from the writings of French philosopher, Michel Foucault, allows for conceptual and theoretical consideration of Ecological Relations. As demonstrated previously, IR has been constructed to logically dismiss the ecological dimension to politics. Indeed, the discipline of IR maintains an imperialist attitude towards all relations upon earth determining both knowledge and behaviour; and an environmental, rather than an ecological, response is the only easily accommodated response for it suppresses the ecological import. Thus, the discipline’s reactionary and transcendental attitude to politics over the lived realities of here and now incites radical revisioning.
