Securing life: the emerging practices of biosecurity
Securing life: the emerging practices of biosecurity
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DOI：
10.1068/a4054
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发表时间：
2008-07-01
影响因子：
4.2
通讯作者：
Bingham, Nick
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作者：
Hinchliffe, Steve;Bingham, Nick
在本文中，我们回顾了最近的社会科学工作的生物安全问题，并提出了地理学家和社会科学家可以接近和干预目前的生物安全实践的方式。我们的论点是，它是既有用又必要的，以定位和干预的网站，有序的biornatters是开放的怀疑和/或discrimination。我们将生物内在性和涌现性的论述与社会科学思维的形式相对立，后者倾向于追踪权力和政治问题中的总体逻辑或看似不可阻挡的力量。在承认这两种文献的重要性的同时，我们的目标是参与使生物体安全的充满经验的实际性，以便突出生命问题被任何数量的过程所模式化的方式，以及这些模式总是以社会物质的偶然性为条件的方式。
In this paper we review recent social science work on the issue of biosecurity and suggest ways in which geographers and social scientists can approach and intervene in current biosecurity practices. Our argument is that it is both useful and necessary to locate and intervene at sites where the ordering of biornatters is open to doubt and/or contestation. We pitch discourses of biological immanence and emergence against forms of social science thinking which tend to trace overarching logics or seemingly unstoppable forces in matters of power and politics. While acknowledging the import of both literatures, our aim is to engage with the fraught empirical practicalities of making biornatters secure in order to bring to the fore the ways in which life matters are patterned by any number of processes and the ways in which these patterns are always conditional on sociornaterial contingencies.