Biocitizenship : : The Politics of Bodies, Governance, and Power / / ed. by Jenell Johnson, Marina Levina, Kelly E. Happe.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
• MitwirkendeR: Aspell, Heather,; Bedor Hiland, Emma,; Bennett, Jeffrey A.,; Burgess, Sarah,; Catts, Oron,; Cerrone, Julie,; Chowkwanyun, Merlin,; Chávez, Karma R.,; Condit, Celeste M.,; Elliott, Carl,; Epstein, Steven,; Happe, Kelly E.,; Johnson, Jenell,; Levina, Marina,; Murray, Stuart J.,; Roberts, Celia,; Schultz, Kirsten,; Shah, Nayan,; Tutton, Richard,; Zurr, Ionat,
• HerausgeberIn: Happe, Kelly E.,; Johnson, Jenell,; Levina, Marina,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Biopolitics ; 19
• Physical Description: 1 online resource :; 8 black and white illustrations

A groundbreaking exploration of biocitizenshipCitizenship has a long, complex relationship with the body. In recent years, developments in biomedicine and biotechnology, as well as a number of political initiatives, grassroots efforts, and public policies have given rise to new ways in which bodies shape the idea and practices of citizenship, or what has been called “biocitizenship.” This book, the first collection of essays on the topic of biocitizenship, aims to examine biocitizenship as a mode of political action and expand readers’ understanding of biopolitics. Organized into four distinct sections covering topics including AIDS, drug testing on the mentally ill, and force-feeding prisoners, Biocitizenship delves deep into the relationship between private and public identity, politics, and power. Composed of pieces by leading scholars from a wide variety of disciplines, Biocitizenship offers a clear and comprehensive discussion on biocitizenship, biopolitics, and groups that may be affected by this ever-growing dialogue. Authors address issues familiar to biopolitics scholarship such as gender, sexuality, class, race, and immigration, but also consider unique objects of study, such as incubators, dead bodies, and corporations. Biocitizenship seeks to question who may count as a biological citizen and for what reasons, an essential topic in an age in which the body and its health provide the conditions necessary for political recognition and agency.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I. Categorical Understandings -- 1. Governing Sexual Health: Bridging Biocitizenship and Sexual Citizenship -- 2. Carceral Biocitizenship: The Rhetorics of Sovereignty in Incarceration -- 3. Epigenetics and the Biocitizen: Body Temporality and Political Agency in the Postgenomic Age -- Part II. Modes of Governance -- 4. Chronic Citizenship: Community, Choice, and Queer Controversy -- 5. The Necropolitical Functions of Biocitizenship: The Sixth International AIDS Conference and the U.S. Ban on HIV- Positive Immigrants -- 6. Exploiting Vulnerable Citizens: Drug Testing and the Mentally Ill -- Part III. Activism and Resistance -- 7. Feeding Hunger- Striking Prisoners: Biopolitics and Impossible Citizenship -- 8. Biocitizenship on the Ground: Health Activism and the Medical Governance Revolution -- 9. The Rise of Health Activism: The Importance of Social Class to Biosociality -- 10. Patient Activists: Experience with Public Engagement -- Part IV. Beyond the Biocitizen -- 11. Nonhuman Biocitizens: Lab Animals, Cruel Optimism, and the Politics of Death -- 12. The Citizens of Incubators: Vessels of Care and Control -- 13. The Supra- Cyborg: The Rise of Global Governing Corporatocracies -- Acknowledgments -- About the Contributors -- Index