Overview

Bio-Imperialism focuses on an understudied dimension of the war on terror: the fight against bioterrorism. This component of the war enlisted the biosciences and public health fields to build up the U.S. biodefense industry and U.S. global disease control. The book argues that U.S. imperial ambitions drove these shifts in focus, aided by gendered and racialized discourses on terrorism, disease, and science. These narratives helped rationalize American research expansion into dangerous germs and bioweapons in the name of biodefense and bolstered the U.S. rationale for increased interference in the disease control decisions of Global South nations. Bio-Imperialism is a sobering look at how the war on terror impacted the world in ways that we are only just starting to grapple with.

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Author:   Gwen Shuni D'Arcangelis
Publisher:   Rutgers University Press
Imprint:   Rutgers University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.004kg
ISBN:  

9781978814790

ISBN 10:   1978814798
Pages:   242
Publication Date:   18 December 2020
Recommended Age:   From 18 to 99 years
Audience:   College/higher education ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Contents List of Illustrations Introduction: Bio-imperialism and the Entanglement of Bioscience, Public Health, and National Security 1. The Making of the Technoscientific Other: Tales of Terrorism, Development, and Third World Morality 2. From Practicing Safe Science to Keeping Science Out of “Dangerous Hands”: The Resurgence of  U.S. “Biodefense” 3. Co-opting Caregiving: Softening Militarism, Feminizing the Nation   4. Preparedness Migrates: Pandemics, Germ Extraction, and “Global Health Security” Epilogue: Repurposing Science and Public Health Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index  

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In this astute and timely study, D'Arcangelis tracks the rise of a racialized and gendered 'bioterror imaginary' in the U.S. through science, politics, journalism, social media, and popular culture that facilitated the conversion of warnings of bioterror into a strategy for U.S. imperialism. Bio-Imperialism offers an urgent analysis of how the US produces the threats to the health of a population it ostensibly seeks to address. --Priscilla Wald author of Contagious: Cultures, Carriers, and the Outbreak Narrative D'Arcangelis provides a rich, timely, must-read account of the United States' 'bioterror imaginary' and its role in the construction of national fragility. Bio-Imperialism recounts tales of terrorism, technoscience, caregiving, and preparedness that are entangled in a nationalism conflating public health and national security. In so doing, the book provides impressive insight into the racialized and gendered dynamics underlying the United States' representation and repurposing of science and health, and the dangers therein. --Laura Sjoberg co-author of International Relations' Last Synthesis?

D'Arcangelis provides a rich, timely, must-read account of the United States' 'bioterror imaginary' and its role in the construction of national fragility. Bio-Imperialism recounts tales of terrorism, technoscience, caregiving, and preparedness that are entangled in a nationalism conflating public health and national security. In so doing, the book provides impressive insight into the racialized and gendered dynamics underlying the United States' representation and repurposing of science and health, and the dangers therein. --Laura Sjoberg co-author of International Relations' Last Synthesis? In this astute and timely study, D'Arcangelis tracks the rise of a racialized and gendered 'bioterror imaginary' in the U.S. through science, politics, journalism, social media, and popular culture that facilitated the conversion of warnings of bioterror into a strategy for U.S. imperialism. Bio-Imperialism offers an urgent analysis of how the US produces the threats to the health of a population it ostensibly seeks to address. --Priscilla Wald author of Contagious: Cultures, Carriers, and the Outbreak Narrative

D'Arcangelis provides a rich, timely, must-read account of the United States' bioterror imaginary and its role in the construction of national fragility. Bio-Imperialism accounts for tales of terrorism, technoscience, caregiving, and preparedness that are entangled in a nationalism that conflates public health and national security. In so doing, it provides impressive insight into the racialized and gendered tropes dynamics underlying the United States' re-presentation and repurposing of science and health, and the dangers therein. --Laura Sjoberg co-author of International Relations' Last Synthesis? In this astute and timely study, D'Arcangelis tracks the rise of a racialized and gendered 'bioterror imaginary' in the US through science, politics, journalism, social media, and popular culture that facilitated the conversion of warnings of bioterror into a strategy for US imperialism. Bio-Imperialism offers an urgent analysis of how the US produces the threats to the health of a population it ostensibly seeks to address. --Priscilla Wald author of Contagious: Cultures, Carriers, and the Outbreak Narrative

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Gwen Shuni D’Arcangelis is an associate professor of gender studies at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York.

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