{"product_id":"pathological-lives-isbn-9781118997598","title":"Pathological Lives","description":"Pandemics, epidemics and food borne diseases are a major global challenge. Focusing on the food and farming sector, and mobilising social theory as well as empirical enquiry, \u003ci\u003ePathological Lives\u003c\/i\u003e investigates current approaches to biosecurity and ask how pathological lives can be successfully ‘regulated’ without making life more dangerous as a result.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eUses empirical and social theoretical resources developed in the course of a 40-month research project entitled ‘Biosecurity borderlands’\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eFocuses on the food and farming sector, where the generation and subsequent transmission of disease has the ability to reach pandemic proportions\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eDemonstrates the importance of a geographical and spatial analysis, drawing together social, material and biological approaches, as well as national and international examples\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eThe book makes three main conceptual contributions, reconceptualising disease as situated matters, the spatial or topological analysis of situations and a reformulation of biopolitics\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eUniquely brings together conceptual development with empirically and politically informed work on infectious and zoonotic disease, to produce a timely and important contribution to both social science and to policy debate\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eList of Figures ix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSeries Editors’ Preface x\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements xi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eForeword xiii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I Framing Pathological Lives 1\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1 Pathological Lives – Disease, Space and Biopolitics 3\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIntroduction: The Emergency of Emergent Infectious Diseases 3\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Four Moves of Pathological Lives 8\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences 21\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2 Biosecurity and the Diagramming of Disease 25\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDisease Diagrams 27\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Disease Multiple: Germs and the Return of the Outside 31\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBiosecurity and the Diagramming of Disease 34\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusions 47\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences 49\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e3 Reconfiguring Disease Situations 52\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDisease Situations 54\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMicrobial Life and Contagion as Difference and Repetition 67\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Topological Disease Situation 72\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusions 80\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences 81\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II Disease Situations 87\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 87\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences 89\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e4 ‘Just‐in‐Time’ Disease: A Campylobacter Situation 91\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFactory‐Farmed Chicken and Food‐borne Disease 93\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRelational Economy of Disease 101\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePowers of Life 107\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusions 108\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences 109\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e5 The De‐Pasteurisation of England: Pigs, Immunity and the Politics of Attention 112\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBirth of the Sty 113\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePigs in Practice – Fieldwork and Translations 119\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eImmunity, Attention and More‐than‐Human Responses 132\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusions 139\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences 139\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e6 Attending to Meat 143\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 143\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMapping the Current Landscape of Food Safety 144\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Failure of Coordination? 151\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eInspection as Tending the Tensions of Food Safety 154\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBeing Stretched 162\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusions 164\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences 166\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e7 A Surfeit of Disease: Or How to Make a Disease Public 169\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Media Background to Disease Publics 171\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublicising Disease: From Public ‘Understanding’ to ‘Engagement’ 174\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eUnderstanding and Engaging Disease Publics 177\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eUnderstanding the Surfeit 179\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusions: Making a Disease Public 187\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences 189\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e8 Knowing Birds and Viruses – from Biopolitics to Cosmopolitics 192\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSensing Life 193\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Livelier Biopolitics and a Noisier Sentience 198\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Perceptual Ecology of Knowing Birds 200\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSurveying Life 204\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eKnowing Viruses 206\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Significance of Observation 208\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusions 210\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences 211\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e9 Conclusions – Living Pathological Lives 214\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTime‐Space and Intra‐Actions 216\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA livelier Politics of Life 218\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA new Kind of Emergency? 220\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences 222\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Index 223\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSteve Hinchliffe\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Human Geography at Exeter University, UK. He is an elected Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and author and editor of numerous books and articles on issues ranging from risk and food, to biosecurity, urban ecologies and nature conservation. He sits on the UK’s Food Standards Agency Social Science Research Committee and has advised DEFRA on responses to exotic disease events.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNick Bingham \u003c\/b\u003eis a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Social Sciences, The Open University, UK. Nick’s current areas of research focus include the management of food safety, responses to the pollination crisis, and matters of coordination in smart cities. He is the author of numerous journal articles and book chapters and is joint editor of Contested Environments (with Andrew Blowers and Chris Belshaw, 2003).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn Allen \u003c\/b\u003eis Professor of Economic Geography in the Faculty of Social Sciences, The Open University, UK. His teaching and research experience includes work on issues of power and spatiality, more recently in relation to financialization, privatization, biopower and topology. His publications include \u003ci\u003eLost Geographies of Power (\u003c\/i\u003eOxford, Blackwell, \u003ci\u003e2003) and \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eTopologies of Power: Beyond Territory and Networks\u003c\/i\u003e (2016), in addition to numerous authored and edited books.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eSimon Carter\u003c\/b\u003e is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Social Sciences, The Open University, UK. Hisresearch interests are in Science and Technology Studies, especially as applied to issues of health and medicine. Most recently, he has been working on an ESRC funded study into how biosecurity interfaces with other concerns in our globalized world. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eRise and Shine\u003c\/i\u003e (2007) as well as numerous book chapters and journal articles. Pandemics, epidemics and food borne diseases have, for some at least, become key challenges for contemporary global society. They threaten progress in global health, compromise food security, and, along with climate change and global terrorism, seem to usher in a state of emergency and a radically uncertain future. The central claim of \u003ci\u003ePathological Lives\u003c\/i\u003e is that any solution offered to these kinds of emerging and often communicable diseases requires a broad-based geographical scrutiny. The book marks an empirically and theoretically informed contribution to a world seemingly under constant microbiological threat, drawing together and extending empirically based geographical scholarship in human-environment relations, science and society, more than human geographies and spatial theory to understand and evaluate efforts at making life more secure. The focus is on the food and farming sector, where the generation and subsequent transmission of disease can reach pandemic proportions. The authors review current approaches to biosecurity or making life safe within those sectors, analyse underlying drivers and logics to existing programmes and ask whether the resulting solutions can succeed. They follow farmers, retailers and regulators, amongst others, asking how pathological lives can be successfully ‘regulated’ without making life more dangerous as a result. \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e‘Pathological Lives \u003c\/i\u003eis much more than an original contribution to the analysis of biosecurity and biopolitics. It shows us how an attentiveness to the complexity of situations can also generate vital normative conclusions.’\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAndrew Barry, Chair of Human Geography and Vice-Dean (Interdisciplinarity), University College London\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e‘Multi-species worlds also include pathogenic microbes. How, for better or worse, to co-exist with these and face the challenges they pose – whilst avoiding the tropes of total warfare and eradication? \u003ci\u003ePathological Lives\u003c\/i\u003e is an acute and well-researched book that bravely faces up to this concern and that sets the scene for a new wave of fresh thinking about biopolitics.’\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnnemarie Mol, Professor of Anthropology of the Body, The University of Amsterdam\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘\u003ci\u003ePathological Lives\u003c\/i\u003e offers an illuminating new approach to the problem of emerging infectious disease. The authors outline a relational understanding of disease where host and infective agent are held together by infrastructures of greater or lesser pathogenicity. This book is a rare thing in contemporary social science: a combination of close ethnographic study, critical policy analysis, and a profound philosophical intervention into contemporary theories of life, biopolitics and emergence.’\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMelinda Cooper, Associate Professor of Sociology and Social Policy, The University of Sydney\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"This book length account is to date the most thorough, detailed, and accessible treatment of the whole issue [of emerging diseases]. (...) the book asks new questions. In particular: “how various matters (including not only microbes) combine with other conditions to produce disease” (p.6). However, it goes much further than this. The very notions of health and disease are being challenged, as are terms such as pathogens, infection, and immunity. Hinchliffe et al. set out on a journey through barns, farms, slaughterhouses, restaurant kitchens, households, and wildfowl reserves. In the book we find five meticulously executed case studies that rely on data mainly gathered through participant observation, interviews, and focus groups in the respective locations. Whenever the logics of profit-making, austerity, and intensified agricultural practices meet, pathogenicity is on the rise. The situation becomes critical when contacts with other beings and organisms are severely reduced to the point of creating isolated ecologies. Being deprived of the possibility of learning and engaging with difference, these ecologies are highly unstable and prone to collapse. In reading Hinchliffe et al.’s book, we may need to reevaluate which circulations and movements we should allow and foster and which need to be controlled and kept in check. Reversing the current dominant logic of pathological geopolitics, we may need less economic and more social globalisation.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJonathan Everts, Universität Bonn (writing in \u003ci\u003eAntipode\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47989754003685,"sku":"NP9781118997598","price":98.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781118997598.jpg?v=1761785359","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/pathological-lives-isbn-9781118997598","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}