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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Happe, Kelly E., Editor.

Johnson, Jenell M., 1978- Editor.

Levina, Marina, 1975- Editor.

Series:

Biopolitics. Medicine, technoscience, and health in the 21st century.

NYU scholarship online.

Biopolitics ; 19

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Biopolitics.

Citizenship.

Citizenship--Social aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (230 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : New York University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

"Biocitizenship: The Politics of Bodies, Governance, and Power is a critical study of the relationship between the concept of citizenship and the body"-- Provided by the publisher

Contents:

Introduction / Jenell Johnson, Kelly E. Happe, and Marina Levina

Part I. Categorical understandings. Governing sexual health : bridging biocitizenship and sexual citizenship / Steven Epstein

Carceral biocitizenship : the rhetorics of sovereignty in incarceration / Sarah Burges and Stuart J. Murray

Epigenetics and the biocitizen : body temporality and political agency in the postgenomic age / Kelly E. Happe

Part II. Modes of governance. Chronic citizenship : community, choice, and queer controversy / Jeffrey A. Bennett

The necropolitical functions of biocitizenship : the sixth international AIDS conference and the U.S. ban on HIV-positive immigrants / Karma R. Chávez

Exploiting vulnerable citizens : drug testing and the mentally III / Carl Elliott and Emma Bedor Hiland

Part III. Activisim and resistance. Feeding hunger-striking prisoners : biopolitics and impossible citizenship / Nayan Shah

Biocitizenship on the ground : health activism and the medical governance revolution / Merlin Chowkwanyun

The rise of health activism : the importance of social class to biosociality / Celia Roberts and Richard Tutton

Patient activists : experience with public engagement / Heather Aspell, Julie Cerrone, and Kirsten Schultz

Part IV. Beyond the biocitizen. Nonhuman biocitizens : lab animals, cruel optimism, and the politics of death / Marina Levina

The citizens of incubators : vessels of care and control / Oron Catts and Ionat Zurr

The supra-cyborg : the rise of global governing corporatocracies / Celeste M. Condit.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2018.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jun 2020)

ISBN:

1-4798-4630-9

OCLC:

1043947851