Overview
- Provides interdisciplinary perspectives on security, race and risk
- Provokes debate about the future of disciplinary work in these areas
- Draws on a wide range of case studies, including HIV-prevention drugs, Indigenous sovereignty and lifestyle apps
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This book explores how technologies of media, medicine, law and governance enable and constrain the mobility of bodies within geographies of space and race. Each chapter describes and critiques the ways in which contemporary technologies produce citizens according to their statistical risk or value in an atmosphere of generalised security, both in relation to categories of race, and within the new possibilities for locating and managing bodies in space. The topics covered include: drone warfare, the global distribution of HIV-prevention drugs, racial profiling in airports, Indigenous sovereignty, consumer lifestyle apps and their ecological and labour costs, and anti-aging therapies.
Security, Race, Biopower makes innovative contributions to multiple disciplines and identifies emerging social and political concerns with security, race and risk that invite further scholarly attention. It will be of great interest to scholars and studentsin disciplinary fields including Media and Communication, Geography, Science and Technology Studies, Political Science and Sociology.
Security, Race, Biopower makes innovative contributions to multiple disciplines and identifies emerging social and political concerns with security, race and risk that invite further scholarly attention. It will be of great interest to scholars and studentsin disciplinary fields including Media and Communication, Geography, Science and Technology Studies, Political Science and Sociology.
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Reviews
“Security, Race, Biopower: Essays on Technologies and Corporeality provides a power account of how, in the global present, biopolitical technologies actualize the logic of obliteration, the operative element in the grammar of raciality. Together the histories, geographies, and case studies assembled in this volume expose how biopolitical equipments, procedures, and processes always already presuppose racial difference and cultural difference as the fundamental descriptors of the threatening global Other. This book is, by far, the best deployment of Foucault’s notion of biopower in the study of security as the privileged mode of management of global subaltern populations.” (Dr. Denise Ferreira da Silva, Director, The Social Justice Institute (GRSJ), University of British Columbia, Canada)
“This cogently argued and deeply researched collection is a work of exemplary scholarship. Holly Randell-Moon and Ryan Tippet have produced a book that has profound politicalimplications, which compels us to rethink our relationship to technologies of medicine, media, surveillance, and war, and which stretches our political imagination to engage with and challenge the ways these technologies regulate our lives and manage populations. (Associate Professor Vijay Devadas, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand)“This path-breaking anthology brings theories of racialization, the body, and biopower, into conversation with critical science and technology studies perspectives and sets this conversation in the context of the shifting, emergent geographies of globalization. These three threads of bodies, territories, and technologies weave together a diverse, wide-ranging, and highly original set of essays.” ( Victoria Bernal, Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Irvine, USA)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Holly Randell-Moon is Lecturer in Communication and Media at the University of Otago, New Zealand. She has published on race, religion, and secularism in the journals Critical Race and Whiteness Studies, borderlands and Social Semiotics and in the edited collections Mediating Faiths (2010) and Religion After Secularization in Australia (2015).
Ryan Tippet is a doctoral candidate at the University of Otago, New Zealand. His research focuses on surveillance and social media, looking in particular at the constitutive relationship between the two, while his previous work has examined surveillance and security discourses in reality television.
Ryan Tippet is a doctoral candidate at the University of Otago, New Zealand. His research focuses on surveillance and social media, looking in particular at the constitutive relationship between the two, while his previous work has examined surveillance and security discourses in reality television.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Security, Race, Biopower
Book Subtitle: Essays on Technology and Corporeality
Editors: Holly Randell-Moon, Ryan Tippet
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-55408-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-55407-9Published: 14 November 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-71670-8Due: 20 April 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-55408-6Published: 04 November 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXII, 219
Topics: Biomedical Engineering/Biotechnology, Biotechnology, Cultural Studies, Media and Communication, Human Geography, Sociology of the Body