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Biopolitics and Utopia: An Interdisciplinary Reader(Palgrave Series in Bioethics and Public Policy)


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Biopolitics and Utopia explores the intersection of biopolitics and utopian thought. As an interdisciplinary work, it addresses many salient biopolitical issues, while also engaging in the utopian drive behind these issues. The book is structured into four main sections: Actions, Speculations, Reactions, and Reflections. The chapters in Actions examine the practices of direct, medical intervention to "normalize" citizens' bodies. Speculations approaches the intersection of utopia and biopolitics through a literary lens, reviewing science fiction texts as expressions of cultural and social fears about scientific progress. Reactions outlines potential acts of resistance in the face of biopower. Finally, Reflections offers a more philosophical essay, which engages the reader in the potential for creating an ethics for scientific standards

Table of Contents:
1. Introduction - Andrew Byers and Patricia Stapleton, 'Biopolitics and Utopia' Section I: Actions 2. Andrew Byers, 'American Bodies in a Time of War: The Militarized Body as a Utopian Space and Biopolitical Project for the State' 3. Patricia Stapleton, 'The Inauspicious Regulatory Beginnings of Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis' 4. Arpita Das, "Abnormals' or 'Exceptions': The Use of Technologies for Intersex People and People with Disabilities' Section II: Speculations 5. Evie Kendal, 'Utopian Visions of 'Making People': Science Fiction and Debates on Cloning, Ectogenesis, Genetic Engineering, and Genetic Discrimination' 6.Selena Middleton, 'Decolonizing the Future: Biopolitics, Ethics, and Foresight through the Lens of Science Fiction' Section III: Reactions 7. Elena Cohen, "All Day, All Week, Occupy Wall Street!': Space, Biopower, and Resistance' 8. Rasmus Simonsen, 'Eating for the Future: Veganism and the Challenge of In vitro Meat' Section IV: Reflections 8. Cameron Barrows, 'Utopia and Biopolitics: The Need for an Ethics in Biotechnology'

About the Author :
Patricia Stapleton is Assistant Teaching Professor of Political Science and the Director of the Society, Technology, and Policy Program at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA. Her research examines public policy and the regulation of biotechnology in agriculture and human health. Andrew Byers is Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Duke University, USA. He researches the history of the regulation of the human body and the intersection of science, sexuality, and law in civilian and military contexts.

Review :
"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)


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  • ISBN-13: 9781137514752
  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
  • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
  • Series Title: Palgrave Series in Bioethics and Public Policy
  • ISBN-10: 1137514752
  • Publisher Date: 11 Jun 2015
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • Sub Title: An Interdisciplinary Reader


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