Pathological Lives: Disease, Space and Biopolitics

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, <i>Pathological Lives</i> investigates current approaches to biosecurity and ask how pathological lives can be successfully ‘regulated’ without making life more dangerous as a result.  <br /><br /> <ul> <li>Uses empirical and social theoretical resources developed in the course of a 40-month research project entitled ‘Biosecurity borderlands’</li> <li>Focuses on the food and farming sector, where the generation and subsequent transmission of disease has the ability to reach pandemic proportions</li> <li>Demonstrates the importance of a geographical and spatial analysis, drawing together social, material and biological approaches, as well as national and international examples</li> <li>The book makes three main conceptual contributions, reconceptualising disease as situated matters, the spatial or topological analysis of situations and a reformulation of biopolitics</li> <li>Uniquely 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</li> </ul>