![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He is an elected Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and author and editor of numerous books and articles on issues ranging from risk and food, to biosecurity, urban ecologies and nature conservation. Steve Hinchliffe is Professor of Human Geography at Exeter University, UK. Uniquely brings together conceptual development with empirically and politically informed work on infectious and zoonotic disease, to produce a timely and important contribution to both social science and to policy debate.The book makes three main conceptual contributions, reconceptualising disease as situated matters, the spatial or topological analysis of situations and a reformulation of biopolitics.Demonstrates the importance of a geographical and spatial analysis, drawing together social, material and biological approaches, as well as national and international examples.Focuses on the food and farming sector, where the generation and subsequent transmission of disease has the ability to reach pandemic proportions.Uses empirical and social theoretical resources developed in the course of a 40-month research project entitled ‘Biosecurity borderlands’.Focusing on the food and farming sector, and mobilising social theory as well as empirical enquiry, Pathological Lives investigates current approaches to biosecurity and ask how pathological lives can be successfully ‘regulated’ without making life more dangerous as a result. Pandemics, epidemics and food borne diseases are a major global challenge. ![]()
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