Beschreibung:
Patricia Stapleton, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USAAndrew Byers, Duke University, USAEvie Kendal, Monash University, AustraliaRasmus R. Simonsen, Western University, CanadaArpita Das, Asian-Pacific Resource and Research Centre for Women, MalaysiaElena L. Cohen, New York City Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild, USA, Graduate Center of the City of New York, USASelena Middleton, McMaster University, CanadaCameron Barrows, St John's College, USA
"The Body Utopian; or, Life and Literature at the Intersection of Biopolitics and Utopian Studies": Haines, Christian, Peter Lang, The Next Generation: Emerging Voices in Utopian Studies, 2014. Additionally there are currently two readers on Biopolitics (Lemke, Caspar and Arthur, NYU Press, 2011 and Campbell and Sitze, Eds, Duke University, 2013) but neither approach biopolitics from the interdisciplinary perspective utilized here.
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'
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.