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This interdisciplinary reader offers a fascinating exploration of the intersection of biopolitics and utopia by employing a range of theoretical approaches. Each essay provides a unique application of the two concepts to topics spanning the social sciences and humanities.
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Reflections
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"One of the strengths of this collection is the variety of approaches to analyzing the intersections between utopian aspirations and concepts of the body. The topics discussed can as specific as physical fitness programs during wartime, pre-implantation genetic diagnoses in fertility treatments, and in vitro meat projects and as general as the technophobia is some science fiction, the need for dialogues between humanists and scientists, and for the development of convincing ethical standards for biotechnology." - Kenneth Roemer, Professor of English, Piper Professor, University of Texas at Arlington, USA, the author and editor of Utopian Audiences (2009), America as Utopia (1980), and The Obsolete Necessity (1976)
"Engaging, original and trans-disciplinary at its core, Stapleton and Byers have curated a volume of critical interpretations of utopian biopolitical projects. Contributors analyze far-ranging State techniques that imagine, produce and reproduce perfect citizens. The collection is vitally necessary to grasp modern world-making, near futures and their effects." - Lisa Jean Moore, Professor of Sociology, SUNY Purchase College, USA, the co-author of Missing Bodies (2009)
About the authors
Patricia Stapleton, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA
Andrew Byers, Duke University, USA
Evie Kendal, Monash University, Australia
Rasmus R. Simonsen, Western University, Canada
Arpita Das, Asian-Pacific Resource and Research Centre for Women, Malaysia
Elena L. Cohen, New York City Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild, USA, Graduate Center of the City of New York, USA
Selena Middleton, McMaster University, Canada
Cameron Barrows, St John's College, USA
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Biopolitics and Utopia
Book Subtitle: An Interdisciplinary Reader
Editors: Patricia Stapleton, Andrew Byers
Series Title: Palgrave Series in Bioethics and Public Policy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137514752
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Political Science Collection, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-51474-5Published: 03 June 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-51475-2Published: 10 June 2015
Series ISSN: 2945-6738
Series E-ISSN: 2945-6746
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 210
Topics: Political Theory, Political Philosophy, Sociology, general, Gender Studies, Sociology of the Body, Cultural Policy and Politics