Biosecurity
Biosecurity is on the agenda, in several ways. From controlling domestic animal diseases, including their crossings to humans, to regulating the global flows and ecologies of living materials to fears of biological attacks.
It has emerged as a key focus for state practice, government regulation and international relations in recent years. Internationally, concern over the spread of SARS and avian bird flu has provoked public panic and government regulations. In Europe, incidents of Foot and Mouth Disease, Swine Fever, Bovine Tuberculosis and Sudden Oak Death have focussed attention on methods of preventing the spread of endemic and episodic diseases. In other areas, issues of pest management, the reintroduction of indigenous species and concern over invasive species (both plant and animal) have triggered attempts to restrict the geographies of nature. In several countries the threat of bio-weapons and the perceived requirements for biodefence have become pressing concerns. All of these issues require problematisation within the social and life sciences (see for example Collier, Lakoff and Rabinow, 2004).
Biosecurity has emerged, then, as a key technique in the surveillance and control of living geographies. It may well redefine spaces, agencies, powers and disrupt understandings and actions; and shape new forms of nature-society relations. This session aims to explore these emerging geographies of biosecurity.
Topics of interest include:
- the governance and regulation of biosecurity; geographical variations and scalar politics
- problematisations of biosecurity discourse and practice
- techniques, practices and moralities of biosecurity
- implementing and resisting biosecurity
- lay and scientific knowledges of animal disease
- animal geographies, animal movements and animal disease
- lay approaches to managing pests and restricting invasive species
- bioterrorrism and bioweapons
- re-ordering spaces through biosecurity
- studies of the changing relations between security structures, scientific research, capitalism and the state
- risk and safety
- case studies of biosecurity in practice
It has emerged as a key focus for state practice, government regulation and international relations in recent years. Internationally, concern over the spread of SARS and avian bird flu has provoked public panic and government regulations. In Europe, incidents of Foot and Mouth Disease, Swine Fever, Bovine Tuberculosis and Sudden Oak Death have focussed attention on methods of preventing the spread of endemic and episodic diseases. In other areas, issues of pest management, the reintroduction of indigenous species and concern over invasive species (both plant and animal) have triggered attempts to restrict the geographies of nature. In several countries the threat of bio-weapons and the perceived requirements for biodefence have become pressing concerns. All of these issues require problematisation within the social and life sciences (see for example Collier, Lakoff and Rabinow, 2004).
Biosecurity has emerged, then, as a key technique in the surveillance and control of living geographies. It may well redefine spaces, agencies, powers and disrupt understandings and actions; and shape new forms of nature-society relations. This session aims to explore these emerging geographies of biosecurity.
Topics of interest include:
- the governance and regulation of biosecurity; geographical variations and scalar politics
- problematisations of biosecurity discourse and practice
- techniques, practices and moralities of biosecurity
- implementing and resisting biosecurity
- lay and scientific knowledges of animal disease
- animal geographies, animal movements and animal disease
- lay approaches to managing pests and restricting invasive species
- bioterrorrism and bioweapons
- re-ordering spaces through biosecurity
- studies of the changing relations between security structures, scientific research, capitalism and the state
- risk and safety
- case studies of biosecurity in practice
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