Emerging Geographies of Biosecurity 1
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Date: 3/23/2023
Time: 12:50 PM - 2:10 PM
Room: Virtual 8
Type: Virtual Paper,
Theme: Toward More Just Geographies
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Organizer(s):
Mollie Holmberg University of British Columbia
Chris Reimer University of British Columbia
Mohammed Rafi Arefin University of British Columbia
Carolyn Prouse Queen's University
Chair(s):
Rafi Arefin University of British Columbia
Carolyn Prouse Queen's University
Description:
Critical scholarship on biosecurity has long highlighted how science and governance intersect to (often violently) produce, manage, and enforce hierarchical social difference in the name of protecting lives, livelihoods, and geographies that the state and capital value. This scholarship is concerned with diverse responses to threats coded as both ‘biological’ and ‘foreign’ by the people and institutions that coordinate them. How then are current geographies of biosecurity emerging under interlocking and accelerating crises of fascist violence, capitalist extraction, climate change, and disease emergence? Furthermore, how are these geographies shaped by longer histories of colonization and racial capitalism (and resistance to them) that continue in the present? We invite paper submissions on topics that include but are not limited to:
New spatializations/materialities/geographies/temporalities of risk and risk governance;
For instance, if/how has COVID reoriented temporal logics of precaution, preemption, and preparedness (Anderson, 2010)? How have new spatial imaginaries of immunity (Hinchliffe et al, 2013; Barker, 2015) and risk (Guthman and Brown, 2016) influenced biosecurity programs?
Racialized/gendered dimensions of biosecurity;
For instance, how are racial immuno-logics (Benton, 2014) and/or Islamophobia (Raza Kolb, 2020) embedded in biosecurity regimes?
Structural inequalities, geopolitics and disease;
For instance, how have urban political ecology (Gandy, 2021), political geographies (Collier & Lakoff, 2008), and economic geography (Sparke & Williams, 2022) contributed to understanding the political and material basis for managing disease biopolitics?
Critical and emerging approaches to biosecurity;
For instance, what can Black studies (surveillance - Browne, 2015; abolition - Benjamin, 2019), Indigenous geographies (genomics - TallBear, 2013; decolonization - Belcourt, 2015; relationality - Todd, 2016; data sovereignty - Kukutai and Taylor, 2016; biosecurity - Lambert & Mark-Shadbolt, 2021), feminist geographies (embodiment - Mansfield, 2012; Patchin, 2020), multispecies geographies (socioecologies - Ahuja, 2016), disability justice (Chen, 2012; Johnk and Khan, 2019), and necropolitics (Puar, 2007) add to canonical conceptualizations of biosecurity, or even depart from them?
Presentations (if applicable) and Session Agenda:
Lotte de Jong |
Conserving Rhino to Extinction: Success in Rhino Conservation in Kenya |
Christopher Reimer, University of British Columbia |
The life of a Florida drone bill in the context of perceived ecological and cultural crises |
Killian McCormack |
The US Military and the Research and Development of the First Ebola Vaccine |
Mollie Holmberg, University of British Columbia |
Forecasting viral futures with USAID’s PREDICT: How data become multispecies security infrastructure |
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Emerging Geographies of Biosecurity 1
Description
Type: Virtual Paper,
Date: 3/23/2023
Time: 12:50 PM - 2:10 PM
Room: Virtual 8
Contact the Primary Organizer
Mollie Holmberg University of British Columbia
mollieh@student.ubc.ca
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