Chemical regimes of living

Environmental History

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 695-703

  Murphy, Michelle ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

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Indexed keywords

BIOMONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL RISK; SOCIAL CHANGE;

EID: 57049161952     PISSN: 10845453     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (25)

1. See, for example, To the Tar Sands(Sierra Youth Coalition Campaign); Oil Sands Truth; Oil Sands Watch (Pembina Institute); Tar Sands Watch (Polaris Institute); Indigenous Tar Sands Campaign
2. Nikolas Rose, "Molecular Biopolitics, Somatic Ethics and the Spirit of Biocapital," Social Theory and Health 5 (2007).
3. Sarah Franklin, Dolly Mixtures (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006).
4. See also Carlos Novas and Nikolas Rose, "Genetic Risk and the Birth of the Somatic Individual," Economy and Society 29 (2000).
5. Bruce Braun, "Biopolitics and the Molecularization of Life," Cultural Geographies 14 (2007).
6. Collier and Lakoff develop a notion of "regime of living" as a "tentative and situated configuration of normative, technical, and political elements" in which "how to live is at stake," emphasizing in their definition the questions of ethics and kinds of reasoning. In this essay, my use of the term diverges from this definition in its emphasis on an assemblage of political economy, governmentality, and epistemology. Stephen Collier and Andrew Lakoff, "On Regimes of Living," in Global Assemblages, ed. Aihwa Ong and Stephen Collier (Oxford: Blackwell, 2004).
7. "Bioeconomy" is a term developed within the biotechnology industry sector, not by academicians. See Kean Birch, "The Neoliberal Underpinnings of the Bioeconomy: The Ideological Discourses and Practices of Economic Competitiveness," Genetics, Society, and Policy 2 (2006).
8. Sarah Lochlann Jain, Commodity Violence (Durham: Duke University Press, forthcoming).
9. Sarah Lochlann Jain, "Living in Prognosis: Toward an Elegiac Politics," Representations 98 (2007).
10. On regimes of imperceptibility, see Michelle Murphy, Sick Building Syndrome and the Problem of Uncertainty: Environmental Politics, Technoscience, and Women Workers (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006).
11. On the interrelationship between laborers considered disposable and distributions of legitimated violence, see Melissa Wright, Disposable Women and Other Myths of Global Capitalism (New York: Routledge, 2006).
12. Adriana Petryna, Life Exposed: Biological Citizens after Chernobyl (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002).
13. The concept is also developed in Vinh-Kim Nguyen, "Antiretroviral Globalism, Biopolitics, and Therapeutic Citizenship," in Global Assemblages, ed. Aihwa Ong and Stephen Collier (Oxford: Blackwell, 2004);
14. Nikolas Rose and Carlos Novas, "Biological Citizenship," in Global Assemblages, ed. Aihwa Ong and Stephen Collier (Oxford: Blackwell, 2004).
15. The literature here is large. See, for example, Barbara Allen, Uneasy Alchemy: Citizens and Experts in Louisiana's Chemical Corridor Disputes (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2003);
16. Phil Brown and Edwin Mikkelsen, No Safe Place: Toxic Waste Leukemia, and Community Action (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1997);
17. Robert Bullard, "Anatomy of Environmental Racism and the Environmental Justice Movement," in Confronting Environmental Racism: Voices from the Grassroots, ed. Robert Bullard (Boston: South End Press, 1993), 15-39;
18. Giovanna Di Chiro, "Living Is for Everyone: Border Crossings for Community Environment and Health," in Landscapes of Exposure: Knowledge and Illness in Modern Environments, ed. Gregg Mitman, Michelle Murphy, and Christopher Sellers, Osiris (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004);
19. and Eileen McGurty, Transforming Environmentalism: Warren County, Pcbs and the Origins of Environmental Justice (Rutgers University Press, 2007).
20. Partha Chatterjee, The Politics of the Governed: Reflections on Popular Politics in Most of the World (New York: Columbia University Press, 2006).
21. Importantly, activists have been able to negotiate acceptance of bucket air sample results by the U.S. EPA. See http://www.labucketbrigade.org/ index.shtml.
22. Murphy, Sick Building Syndrome.
23. Christopher Hatch and Matt Price, "Canada's Toxic Tar Sands: The Most Destructive Project on Earth" (Toronto: Environmental Defence, 2008).
24. Constanze Mackenzie, Ada Lockridge, and Margaret Keith, "Declining Sex Ratio in a First Nation Community," Environmental Health Perspectives 113 (2005).
25. Environmental Defence, "Toxic Nation on Parliament Hill: A Report in Four Canadian Politicians" (Toronto: 2007).