Security, Race, Biopower

This book explores how technologies of media, medicine, law and governance enable and constrain the mobility of bodies within geographies of space and race. Each chapter describes and critiques the ways in which contemporary technologies produce citizens according to their statistical risk or value in an atmosphere of generalised security, both in relation to categories of race, and within the new possibilities for locating and managing bodies in space. The topics covered include: drone warfare, the global distribution of HIV-prevention drugs, racial profiling in airports, Indigenous sovereignty, consumer lifestyle apps and their ecological and labour costs, and anti-aging therapies.
Security, Race, Biopower makes innovative contributions to multiple disciplines and identifies emerging social and political concerns with security, race and risk that invite further scholarly attention. It will be of great interest to scholars and studentsin disciplinary fields including Media and Communication, Geography, Science and Technology Studies, Political Science and Sociology.

Provides interdisciplinary perspectives on security, race and risk Provokes debate about the future of disciplinary work in these areas Draws on a wide range of case studies, including HIV-prevention drugs, Indigenous sovereignty and lifestyle apps

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Holly Randell-Moon is Lecturer in Communication and Media at the University of Otago, New Zealand. She has published on race, religion, and secularism in the journals Critical Race and Whiteness Studies, borderlands and Social Semiotics and in the edited collections Mediating Faiths (2010) and Religion After Secularization in Australia (2015).
Ryan Tippet is a doctoral candidate at the University of Otago, New Zealand. His research focuses on surveillance and social media, looking in particular at the constitutive relationship between the two, while his previous work has examined surveillance and security discourses in reality television.

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"This path-breaking anthology brings theories of racialization, the body, and biopower, into conversation with critical science and technology studies perspectives and sets this conversation in the context of the shifting, emergent geographies of globalization. These three threads of bodies, territories, and technologies weave together a diverse, wide-ranging, and highly original set of essays. The contributors offer provocative analyses of contemporary phenomena ranging from access to HIV drugs, changing succession rules of the British monarchy, drones, and Australian aboriginal resistance struggles."

-Victoria Bernal, University of California, Irvine This book explores how technologies of media, medicine, law and governance enable and constrain the mobility of bodies within geographies of space and race. Each chapter describes and critiques the ways in which contemporary technologies produce citizens according to their statistical risk or value in an atmosphere of generalised security, both in relation to categories of race, and within the new possibilities for locating and managing bodies in space. The topics covered include: drone warfare, the global distribution of HIV-prevention drugs, racial profiling in airports, Indigenous sovereignty, consumer lifestyle apps and their ecological and labour costs, and anti-aging therapies.
Security, Race, Biopower makes innovative contributions to multiple disciplines and identifies emerging social and political concerns with security, race and risk that invite further scholarly attention. It will be of great interest to scholars and students in disciplinary fields including Media and Communication, Geography, Science and Technology Studies, Political Science and Sociology.

Inhalt
Introduction; Holly Randell-Moon and Ryan Tippet.- Part I. Geocorpographies.- Chapter 1. Death by Metadata: The Bioinformationalisation of Life and the Transliteration of Algorithms to FleshJoseph Pugliese.- Chapter 2. Of Bodies, Borders, and Barebacking: The Geocorpographies of HIVJoshua Pocius.- Chapter 3. Body, Crown, Territory: Geocorpographies of the British Monarchy and White Settler Sovereignty; Holly Randell-Moon.- Chapter 4. What are you doing here? The Politics of Race and Belonging at the Airport; Sunshine M. Kamaloni.- Part II. Technologies.- Chapter 5. Corporate Geocorpographies: Surveillance and Social Media Expansion; Ryan Tippet.- Chapter 6. Everyday Modulation: Dataism, Health Apps, and the Production of Self-Knowledge; Brett Nicholls.- Chapter 7. Invisible Bodies and Forgotten Spaces: Materiality, Toxicity, and Labourin Digital Ecologies; Sy Taffel.- Part III. Biopolitics.- Chapter 8. Domesticating Drone Technologies: Commercialisation, banalisation, and reconfiguring 'ways of seeing'; Caitlin Overingtonand Thao Phan. - Chapter 9. The Somatechnics of Desire and the Biopolitics of Ageing; David-Jack Fletcher.- Chapter 10. Securing Sovereignty: Private Property, Indigenous Resistance, and the Rhetoric of Housing; Jillian Kramer.- Conclusion; Holly Randell-Moon and Ryan Tippet.