{"product_id":"9781118997604","title":"Pathological Lives Disease, Space and Biopolitics","description":"\u003ch3\u003eRGS-IBG Book Series\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch1\u003ePathological Lives\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003eDisease, Space and Biopolitics\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eSteve Hinchliffe | Nick Bingham | John Allen | Simon Carter\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eScience \/ Earth Sciences \/ Geography\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePandemics, 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\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\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.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e27 December 2016\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWiley\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWiley-Blackwell\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9781118997604\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePaperback \/ softback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e272\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWeight (oz): \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e12.0\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Wiley","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44348342272140,"sku":"9781118997604","price":37.35,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9781118997604.jpg?v=1780199285","url":"https:\/\/lateknightbooks.com\/products\/9781118997604","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}