The (bio)politics of public health
Wednesday 14th April 2010 - Sunday 18th April 2010
Arguments about the bio-politicisation of life itself have achieved something of a hegemonic ascendency amongst critical geographers interested in the interpolation of (neo)liberal subjects (eg Legg 2005, Sparke 2006, Minca 2006).
Unsurprisingly there has been a simultaneous focus on the political dimensions of public health programmes at a variety of scales ranging from the globe down to the gene (eg Craddock 2007, Sparke 2008).
In this session in Washington, DC, we are hoping to bring together papers interested in the broad ways in which public health (dys)functions as a mechanism of (bio)political regulation. We realise this is a very broad theme but we hope it might generate some interest from people working on projects such as:
The spatialities of health surveillance technologies.
Education for the management of risk in the diffusion of communicable disease (eg swine flu, HIV/Aids).
Choice/responsibilisation as a mode of subject interpolation (eg campaigns for fitness, healthy eating).
The law as a technology of public-health policy (eg health and safety regulations, new geographies of quarantine).
If you are interested in offering a paper or otherwise contributing around these or similar themes please send your abstract or expression of interest to Gavin Griffiths (gg69@st-andrews.ac.uk) by 12 October 2009.
Organised by Gavin Griffiths and Matt Sothern (University of St Andrews, Scotland).
Created Mon 21 Sep 2009 by Andrea Jonker-Bryce | Email to a friend