Biocitizenship: The Politics of Bodies, Governance, and Power

Published by New York University Press 2018

Biocitizenship

The Politics of Bodies, Governance, and Power

Edited by: Kelly E. Happe , Jenell Johnson and Marina Levina

Volume 19 in the series Biopolitics

https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479845194.001.0001

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About this book

A groundbreaking exploration of biocitizenship

Citizenship 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.

Author / Editor information

Happe Kelly E. :

Kelly E. Happe is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Studies and the Institute for Women's Studies at the University of Georgia. She is the author of The Material Gene: Gender, Race, and Heredity After the Human Genome Project and co-editor of Biocitizenship: The Politics of Bodies, Governance, and Power.Johnson Jenell :

Jenell Johnsonis Mellon-Morgridge Professor of the Humanities and Associate Professor of Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is the author of American Lobotomy: A Rhetorical History.Levina Marina :

Marina Levina is Associate Professor of Communication at The University of Memphis. She is the author of Pandemics and the Media.Kelly E. Happe (Editor)
Kelly E. Happe is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Studies and the Institute for Women's Studies at the University of Georgia. She is the author of The Material Gene: Gender, Race, and Heredity After the Human Genome Project and co-editor of Biocitizenship: The Politics of Bodies, Governance, and Power.

Jenell Johnson (Editor)
Jenell Johnsonis Mellon-Morgridge Professor of the Humanities and Associate Professor of Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is the author of American Lobotomy: A Rhetorical History.

Marina Levina (Editor)
Marina Levina is Associate Professor of Communication at The University of Memphis. She is the author of Pandemics and the Media.

Reviews

Angela Willey,Author of Undoing Monogamy: The Politics of Science and the Possibilities of Biology:
This timely collection offers up rich and generative archives for thinking about the concept of biocitizenship, and in so doing becomes a vital resource for discussions on how we narrate and navigate engagements with the materiality of bodies alongside processes of biomedicalization, entangled as they are with the interests of capital and the differential valuation of lives.

Jennifer Terry,Author of Attachments to War: Biomedical Logics and Violence in Twenty-First-Century America:
Biocitizenship offers marvelous transdisciplinary perspectives on how health, bodies, and life are entangled in power dynamics manifesting variously in civic belonging and political subjection, social exclusion, and creative resistance.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
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Introduction Jenell Johnson, Kelly E. Happe and Marina Levina Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I. Categorical Understandings
1. Governing Sexual Health: Bridging Biocitizenship and Sexual Citizenship Steven Epstein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	21
2. Carceral Biocitizenship: The Rhetorics of Sovereignty in Incarceration Sarah Burgess and Stuart J. Murray Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	51
3. Epigenetics and the Biocitizen: Body Temporality and Political Agency in the Postgenomic Age Kelly E. Happe Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	70
Part II. Modes of Governance
4. Chronic Citizenship: Community, Choice, and Queer Controversy Jeffrey A. Bennett Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	95
5. The Necropolitical Functions of Biocitizenship: The Sixth International AIDS Conference and the U.S. Ban on HIV- Positive Immigrants Karma R. Chávez Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	117
6. Exploiting Vulnerable Citizens: Drug Testing and the Mentally Ill Carl Elliott and Emma Bedor Hiland Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	133
Part III. Activism and Resistance
7. Feeding Hunger- Striking Prisoners: Biopolitics and Impossible Citizenship Nayan Shah Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	155
8. Biocitizenship on the Ground: Health Activism and the Medical Governance Revolution Merlin Chowkwanyun Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	178
9. The Rise of Health Activism: The Importance of Social Class to Biosociality Celia Roberts and Richard Tutton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	204
10. Patient Activists: Experience with Public Engagement Heather Aspell, Julie Cerrone and Kirsten Schultz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	222
Part IV. Beyond the Biocitizen
11. Nonhuman Biocitizens: Lab Animals, Cruel Optimism, and the Politics of Death Marina Levina Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	233
12. The Citizens of Incubators: Vessels of Care and Control Oron Catts and Ionat Zurr Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	255
13. The Supra- Cyborg: The Rise of Global Governing Corporatocracies Celeste M. Condit Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	274
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	307
About the Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	309
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	317