Pathological Lives

Pathological Lives

Disease, Space and Biopolitics

Allen, John; Hinchliffe, Steve; Bingham, Nick; Carter, Simon

John Wiley and Sons Ltd

12/2016

264

Dura

Inglês

9781118997598

15 a 20 dias

466

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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
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<p>Spatial thinking; Infectious disease; pandemics; epidemics; disease; global health; pathogens; viruses; biosecurity; Avian Influenza. Food borne disease; swine flu; geographical theory; human geography; biopolitics; cosmopolitics; materialities; human-animal interface; food-borne disease; epizootic; food security; multi-species ethnography; ecological politics; One Health</p>