Pathological Lives - Disease, Space and Biopolitics

Informationen zum Autor Steve Hinchliffe  is Professor of Human Geography at Exeter University, UK. He is an elected Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and author and editor of numerous books and articles on issues ranging from risk and food, to biosecurity, urban ecologies and nature conservation. He sits on the UK's Food Standards Agency Social Science Research Committee and has advised DEFRA on responses to exotic disease events. Nick Bingham  is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Social Sciences, The Open University, UK. Nick's current areas of research focus include the management of food safety, responses to the pollination crisis, and matters of coordination in smart cities. He is the author of numerous journal articles and book chapters and is joint editor of Contested Environments (with Andrew Blowers and Chris Belshaw, 2003). John Allen  is Professor of Economic Geography in the Faculty of Social Sciences, The Open University, UK. His teaching and research experience includes work on issues of power and spatiality, more recently in relation to financialization, privatization, biopower and topology. His publications include  Lost Geographies of Power ( Oxford, Blackwell,  2003) and  Topologies of Power: Beyond Territory and Networks  (2016), in addition to numerous authored and edited books. Simon Carter  is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Social Sciences, The Open University, UK. Hisresearch interests are in Science and Technology Studies, especially as applied to issues of health and medicine. Most recently, he has been working on an ESRC funded study into how biosecurity interfaces with other concerns in our globalized world. He is the author of  Rise and Shine  (2007) as well as numerous book chapters and journal articles. Klappentext Pandemics, epidemics and food borne diseases are a major global challenge. Focusing on the food and farming sector, and mobilising social theory as well as empirical enquiry, Pathological Lives investigates current approaches to biosecurity and ask how pathological lives can be successfully 'regulated' without making life more dangerous as a result.* Uses empirical and social theoretical resources developed in the course of a 40-month research project entitled 'Biosecurity borderlands'* Focuses on the food and farming sector, where the generation and subsequent transmission of disease has the ability to reach pandemic proportions* Demonstrates the importance of a geographical and spatial analysis, drawing together social, material and biological approaches, as well as national and international examples* The book makes three main conceptual contributions, reconceptualising disease as situated matters, the spatial or topological analysis of situations and a reformulation of biopolitics* Uniquely brings together conceptual development with empirically and politically informed work on infectious and zoonotic disease, to produce a timely and important contribution to both social science and to policy debate Zusammenfassung Pandemics, epidemics and food borne diseases have become one of the key challenges for contemporary global society. The central claim of Pathological Lives is that any solution offered to these kinds of emerging and often communicable diseases requires a broad-based geographical scrutiny. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Figures ix Series Editors' Preface x Acknowledgements xi Foreword xiii Part I Framing Pathological Lives 1 1 Pathological Lives - Disease, Space and Biopolitics 3 Introduction: The Emergency of Emergent Infectious Diseases 3 The Four Moves of Pathological Lives 8 References 21 2 Biosecurity and the Diagramming of Disease 25 Disease Diagrams 27 The Disease Multiple: Germs and the Return of the Outside 31 Biosecurity and the...

List of contents

List of Figures ix
 
Series Editors' Preface x
 
Acknowledgements xi
 
Foreword xiii
 
Part I Framing Pathological Lives 1
 
1 Pathological Lives - Disease, Space and Biopolitics 3
 
Introduction: The Emergency of Emergent Infectious Diseases 3
 
The Four Moves of Pathological Lives 8
 
References 21
 
2 Biosecurity and the Diagramming of Disease 25
 
Disease Diagrams 27
 
The Disease Multiple: Germs and the Return of the Outside 31
 
Biosecurity and the Diagramming of Disease 34
 
Conclusions 47
 
References 49
 
3 Reconfiguring Disease Situations 52
 
Disease Situations 54
 
Microbial Life and Contagion as Difference and Repetition 67
 
A Topological Disease Situation 72
 
Conclusions 80
 
References 81
 
Part II Disease Situations 87
 
Introduction 87
 
References 89
 
4 'Just-in-Time' Disease: A Campylobacter Situation 91
 
Factory-Farmed Chicken and Food-borne Disease 93
 
Relational Economy of Disease 101
 
Powers of Life 107
 
Conclusions 108
 
References 109
 
5 The De-Pasteurisation of England: Pigs, Immunity and the Politics of Attention 112
 
Birth of the Sty 113
 
Pigs in Practice - Fieldwork and Translations 119
 
Immunity, Attention and More-than-Human Responses 132
 
Conclusions 139
 
References 139
 
6 Attending to Meat 143
 
Introduction 143
 
Mapping the Current Landscape of Food Safety 144
 
A Failure of Coordination? 151
 
Inspection as Tending the Tensions of Food Safety 154
 
Being Stretched 162
 
Conclusions 164
 
References 166
 
7 A Surfeit of Disease: Or How to Make a Disease Public 169
 
The Media Background to Disease Publics 171
 
Publicising Disease: From Public 'Understanding' to 'Engagement' 174
 
Understanding and Engaging Disease Publics 177
 
Understanding the Surfeit 179
 
Conclusions: Making a Disease Public 187
 
References 189
 
8 Knowing Birds and Viruses - from Biopolitics to Cosmopolitics 192
 
Sensing Life 193
 
A Livelier Biopolitics and a Noisier Sentience 198
 
A Perceptual Ecology of Knowing Birds 200
 
Surveying Life 204
 
Knowing Viruses 206
 
The Significance of Observation 208
 
Conclusions 210
 
References 211
 
9 Conclusions - Living Pathological Lives 214
 
Time-Space and Intra-Actions 216
 
A livelier Politics of Life 218
 
A new Kind of Emergency? 220
 
References 222
 
Index 223

Report

'Pathological Lives is much more than an original contribution to the analysis of biosecurity and biopolitics. It shows us how an attentiveness to the complexity of situations can also generate vital normative conclusions.'
Andrew Barry, Chair of Human Geography and Vice-Dean (Interdisciplinarity), University College London
 
'Multi-species worlds also include pathogenic microbes. How, for better or worse, to co-exist with these and face the challenges they pose - whilst avoiding the tropes of total warfare and eradication? Pathological Lives is an acute and well-researched book that bravely faces up to this concern and that sets the scene for a new wave of fresh thinking about biopolitics.'
Annemarie Mol, Professor of Anthropology of the Body, The University of Amsterdam
 
'Pathological Lives offers an illuminating new approach to the problem of emerging infectious disease. The authors outline a relational understanding of disease where host and infective agent are held together by infrastructures of greater or lesser pathogenicity. This book is a rare thing in contemporary social science: a combination of close ethnographic study, critical policy analysis, and a profound philosophical intervention into contemporary theories of life, biopolitics and emergence.'
Melinda Cooper, Associate Professor of Sociology and Social Policy, The University of Sydney

Product details

• Authors: John Allen, John et al Allen, Nic Bingham, Nick Bingham, Bingham Nick, Simon Carter, S Hinchliffe, Stev Hinchliffe, Steve Hinchliffe, Steve (Exeter University Hinchliffe, Steve Bingham Hinchliffe, Hinchliffe Steve
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.12.2016
• EAN: 9781118997598
• ISBN: 978-1-118-99759-8
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: RGS-IBG Book Series; RGS-IBG Book Series; Rgs-Ibg Book
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Politikwissenschaft, Politik, Geographie, Geography, European Politics, Political Science, Politische Geographie, Political Geography, Social & Cultural Geography, Sozio- u. Kulturgeographie, Politik / Europa