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Pathological Lives
John Allen, Nick Bingham, Simon Carter, et al.
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Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik / Geografie
Beschreibung
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
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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.'
'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.'
'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.'
"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."
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Geographie, European Politics, Social & Cultural Geography, Geography, Politik, Politik / Europa, Sozio- u. Kulturgeographie, Politikwissenschaft, Politische Geographie, Political Geography, Political Science