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Pathological Lives

Disease, Space and Biopolitics
RGS-IBG Book Series 1. Aufl.

von: Steve Hinchliffe, Nick Bingham, John Allen, Simon Carter
25,99 €
Verlag:	Wiley-Blackwell
Format:	PDF
Veröffentl.:	27.04.2017
ISBN/EAN:	9781118997611
Sprache:	englisch
Anzahl Seiten:	264

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Titelbeschreibung

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. <ul> <li>Uses empirical and social theoretical resources developed in the course of a 40-month research project entitled ‘Biosecurity borderlands’</li> <li>Focuses on the food and farming sector, where the generation and subsequent transmission of disease has the ability to reach pandemic proportions</li> <li>Demonstrates the importance of a geographical and spatial analysis, drawing together social, material and biological approaches, as well as national and international examples</li> <li>The book makes three main conceptual contributions, reconceptualising disease as situated matters, the spatial or topological analysis of situations and a reformulation of biopolitics</li> <li>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</li> </ul>

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 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

Autorenportrait

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.

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Pandemics, epidemics and food borne diseases have, for some at least, become key challenges for contemporary global society. They threaten progress in global health, compromise food security, and, along with climate change and global terrorism, seem to usher in a state of emergency and a radically uncertain future. 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. The book marks an empirically and theoretically informed contribution to a world seemingly under constant microbiological threat, drawing together and extending empirically based geographical scholarship in human-environment relations, science and society, more than human geographies and spatial theory to understand and evaluate efforts at making life more secure. The focus is on the food and farming sector, where the generation and subsequent transmission of disease can reach pandemic proportions. The authors review current approaches to biosecurity or making life safe within those sectors, analyse underlying drivers and logics to existing programmes and ask whether the resulting solutions can succeed. They follow farmers, retailers and regulators, amongst others, asking how pathological lives can be successfully ‘regulated’ without making life more dangerous as a result.

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‘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 "This book length account is to date the most thorough, detailed, and accessible treatment of the whole issue [of emerging diseases]. (...) the book asks new questions. In particular: “how various matters (including not only microbes) combine with other conditions to produce disease” (p.6). However, it goes much further than this. The very notions of health and disease are being challenged, as are terms such as pathogens, infection, and immunity. Hinchliffe et al. set out on a journey through barns, farms, slaughterhouses, restaurant kitchens, households, and wildfowl reserves. In the book we find five meticulously executed case studies that rely on data mainly gathered through participant observation, interviews, and focus groups in the respective locations. Whenever the logics of profit-making, austerity, and intensified agricultural practices meet, pathogenicity is on the rise. The situation becomes critical when contacts with other beings and organisms are severely reduced to the point of creating isolated ecologies. Being deprived of the possibility of learning and engaging with difference, these ecologies are highly unstable and prone to collapse. In reading Hinchliffe et al.’s book, we may need to reevaluate which circulations and movements we should allow and foster and which need to be controlled and kept in check. Reversing the current dominant logic of pathological geopolitics, we may need less economic and more social globalisation.” Jonathan Everts, Universität Bonn (writing in Antipode)