Biocitizenship : : The Politics of Bodies, Governance, and Power /

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

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...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource :; 8 black and white illustrations
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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

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