Claire Blencowe is an associate professor of Sociology and co-chair of the Just Eco-Geo-Political Futures research group at Warwick University. She is a leading scholar of Foucault and applies his ideas to modern political problems of the climate crisis, ramifications of colonialism and, politics of the body.
Her most recent work focuses on religious biopolitics and how Christian Evangelicals work alongside fossil fuel industries. It asks how religion on the frontiers of resource extraction can both be a force of destruction and unity among indigenous peoples. She is the author of several books including Spirits of Extraction and Biopolitical Experience.
"Blencowe opens up many questions about ethics and politics in a biopolitical configuration that should challenge conventional thinking on such matters." — Cary Federman Professor of Justice at Montclair State University