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Biocultures: a critical approach to mundane biomedical governance
Culture, Theory and Critique Pub Date : 2021-01-04 , DOI: 10.1080/14735784.2020.1857810
Shiloh Krupar 1 , Nadine Ehlers 2
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ABSTRACT

How are we to understand and navigate the ways that biomedicine extends beyond the formal institutions of the clinic, the hospital, and lab, and is incorporated into broader social practices, from intimate embodied knowledges of the self to biosecurity rationales? We propose a return to Lennard Davis’s call (2006. ‘Life, Death, and Biocultural Literacy’. The Chronicle of Higher Education 52:18, B9) for biocultural studies, but with sharpened focus on the way biomedical logics circulate in everyday life under late liberalism. In this essay, we lay out the arena of biocultural studies as particular terrains where health and life are biopolitically governed through the lens of biomedicine and public health. We consider how this governance is inextricable from neoliberal rationalities and imperatives that demand, produce, and affirm only certain forms of subjectivity and life. Additionally, drawing on concrete illustrations from our recent work, we explore the methodology of biocultural studies that involves intertextual analysis of various kinds of cultural products, knowledges and practices; advances collaborative cross-disciplinary approaches that attend to the stratified and mundane layers of biomedical governance; promotes scalar thinking about health policies and practices, from the individual to population-level administration; and, finally, scrutinises the structural violence of biomedicine and deadly inequities produced through life-making practices.



中文翻译:

生物培养:一种重要的生物医学治理方法

摘要

我们如何理解和驾驭生物医学超越诊所、医院和实验室的正式机构,并融入更广泛的社会实践的方式,从自我的亲密体现知识到生物安全原理?我们建议回归伦纳德·戴维斯 (Lennard Davis) 的呼吁 (2006. 'Life, Death, and Bioculture Literacy'. The Chronicle of Higher Education 52:18, B9) 进行生物文化研究,但更加关注生物医学逻辑在日常生活中的循环方式晚期自由主义。在这篇文章中,我们布置了竞技场生物文化研究作为特定领域,通过生物医学和公共卫生的视角对健康和生活进行生物政治管理。我们考虑这种治理如何与新自由主义理性和命令密不可分,这些理性和命令只要求、产生和肯定某些形式的主体性和生活。此外,从我们近期工作的具体插图绘制,我们探索了方法生物文化研究,涉及各类文化产品,知识和实践的互文性分析; 推进跨学科协作方法,处理生物医学治理的分层和平凡层次;促进标量思维关于卫生政策和实践,从个人到人口层面的管理;最后,仔细审查生物医学的结构性暴力和通过生命创造实践产生的致命不平等。

更新日期:2021-01-04
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