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Call for Papers: Association for American Geographers Annual Meeting, Washington, DC
April 14-18, 2010
Organized Paper Session(s)
Biopolitical Economies
It is a commonplace of contemporary thought to begin reflections on biopolitics in
the register identified by Foucault and Deleuze: as a mode of power that takes
“life itself” as its proper object. Across different areas of philosophical,
social scientific and humanistic inquiry, biopolitics has become one of the most
significant keywords used to characterize both the large-scale management of the
life of populations and the micro-political creation of new “forms of life” within
the biotechnological sciences.
This session on Biopolitical Economies will bring together work on biopolitics
attuned to its historical or emerging economic forms. Papers in the session will
seek to deepen conceptual engagements with the temporal, spatial, and cultural
logics of accumulation, circulation and speculation underpinning contemporary forms
of biocapital; the new constellations of life, labour and property at work in
science corridors and financial districts across the globe; and theorizations of
value that traverse biological, aesthetic, and economic domains.
Papers might address, but are not limited to, the following topics:
Exchange or trade in animal/human tissues
Genetics and race
Financialization of everyday life
Biosecurity and ecological disaster
Geographies of the bioeconomy
Oil crises and biofuels
Medical tourism
Nonhuman biologics
Kinship and biomedical modes of reproduction
Biotechnology and art practice
Genealogies of biopolitics
Governmentality and the mobilization of human capital
Biovalue, calculation and risk
Experimental subjects and the pharmaceutical industry
Consumer genetics
Abstracts will be considered for one or more organized sessions at the 2010 AAG in
Washington, DC (April 14-18).
Please send titles and paper abstracts or expressions of interest to Maria Fannin
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Deadline: October 18, 2009
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Maria Fannin
Lecturer in Human Geography
School of Geographical Sciences
University of Bristol
Bristol BS8 1SS
United Kingdom
tel: +44 117 904 4614
fax: +44 117 928 7878
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