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John Allen

Pathological Lives

Disease, Space and Biopolitics

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Pandemics, epidemics and food borne diseases have, for some at least, become key challenges for contemporary global society. They threaten progress in global health, compromise food security, and, along with climate change and global terrorism, seem to usher in a state of emergency and a radically uncertain future. The central claim of Pathological Lives is that any solution offered to these kinds of emerging and often communicable diseases requires a broad-based geographical scrutiny. The book marks an empirically and theoretically informed contribution to a world seemingly under constant microbiological threat, drawing together and extendin… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Carter, Simon / Hinchliffe, Steve / Bingham, Nick
  • ISBN: 978-1-118-99762-8
  • EAN: 9781118997628
  • Produktnummer: 22071215
  • Verlag: Wiley-Blackwell
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
  • Seitenangabe: 264 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 3'457 KB

Über den Autor


Steve Hinchliffe 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. Nick Bingham is 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). John Allen is 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 Lost Geographies of Power (Oxford, Blackwell, 2003) and Topologies of Power: Beyond Territory and Networks (2016), in addition to numerous authored and edited books. Simon Carter 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 Rise and Shine (2007) as well as numerous book chapters and journal articles.

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