Bodily Fluids, Fluid Bodies and International Politics
Feminist Technoscience, Biopolitics and Security
By Jenn Hobbs
ISBN
978-1529237948Dimensions
234 x 156 mmImprint
Bristol University PressISBN
978-1529237962Dimensions
234 x 156 mmImprint
Bristol University PressISBN
978-1529237962Dimensions
234 x 156 mmImprint
Bristol University Press
Bodily Fluids, Fluid Bodies and International Politics
In recent years, security actors have become increasingly concerned with health issues. This book reveals how understandings of race, sexuality and gender are produced/reproduced through healthcare policy.
Analysing the plasma of paid Mexicana/o donors in the US, airport vomit in Ebola epidemics and the semen of soldiers with genitourinary injuries, this book shows how security practices focus upon governing bodily fluids.
Using a variety of critical scholarship – feminist technoscience, queer studies and critical race studies – this book uses fluids to reveal unequal distributions of life and death.
“This book embodies the very best of what a queerfeminist curiosity has to offer global politics – unlikely sites and subjects of biopolitical (in)security and how they are inflected through and rub against race, gender and sexuality. By following bodily fluids – plasma, vomit and semen – the book takes the reader on a slippery ride through the messy assemblages of security practices to creatively meditate on what this means for the entangled distribution of life and death in the everyday. A must-read for students and scholars interested in subverting the discipline and creatively thinking otherwise.” Cristina Masters, University of Manchester
Jenn Hobbs is Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Leicester.
1. Introduction
2. Theorizing Assemblages and Feminist Technoscience
3. Life-giving, Life-threatening: Plasma Donation at the U.S.–Mexico Border
4. Racializing Fluids: Vomit, Airports and the 2013–16 Ebola Pandemic
5. Securing Cisheterosexuality: Semen and Genitourinary Injuries
6. Finding, Following, Fluids
7. Concluding is the Wrong Verb
