Pathological Lives: Disease, Space and Biopolitics

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 INDICE: Series Editor s Preface .Preface .Acknowledgements .Part 1 .1. Pathological lives Disease, space and biopolitics .Introduction: The emergency of emergent infectious diseases .The Four Moves of Pathological Lives .2. Biosecurity and the diagramming of disease .Disease Diagrams .The disease multiple: germs and the return of the outside .Biosecurity and the diagramming of disease .Conclusions .3. Reconfiguring disease situations .Disease situations .Microbial life and contagion as difference and repetition .A topological disease situation .Conclusion .Introduction to Part 2 .4. Just–in–Time Disease: A Campylobacter Situation .Factory–Farmed Chicken and Foodborne Disease .Relational Economy of Disease .Powers of Life .Conclusion .5. The De–Pasteurisation of England: pigs, immunity and the politics of attention .Birth of the sty .Pigs in practice fieldwork and translations .Immunity, attention and more–than–human responses .Conclusion .6. Attending to Meat .Introduction .Mapping the current landscape of food safety .A failure of coordination? .Inspection as tending the tensions of food safety .Being stretched .Conclusions .7. A surfeit of disease: or how to make a disease public .The Media Background to the Disease Publics .Publicising disease: From public understanding to engagement .Understanding and engaging disease publics .Understanding the surfeit .Conclusions: making a disease public .8. Knowing birds and viruses from biopolitics to cosmopolitics .Sensing life .A Livelier Biopolitics and a Noisier Sentience .A Perceptual Ecology of Knowing Birds .Surveying Life .Knowing Viruses .The Significance of Observation .Conclusions .Afterwords Living Pathological Lives .References .Index

• ISBN: 978-1-118-99759-8
• Editorial: Wiley–Blackwell
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 264
• Fecha Publicación: 09/12/2016
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés