The MRSA Epidemic and/as Fluid Biopolitics

Newman, Joshua I.; Shields, Rachel; McLeod, Christopher M.

doi:10.1177/1357034x14551844

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“…In this way the ‘cloud’ or ‘bubble’ becomes an indefinite expression of both the biomedical mandate to avoid transmission through social distancing, but also the navigation of public space (Brown 2018, Brown and Nettleton 2017, Newman et al . 2016). Imagining and embodying ‘clouds’ or ‘bubbles’ repositions CF patients within the aerographic ‘spatiality of biopoliticized flesh’ as Esposito has put it (Esposito 2008: 160).…”

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Air care: an ‘aerography’ of breath, buildings and bugs in the cystic fibrosis clinic

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Sociology Health & Illness

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With significant relevance to the Covid-19 pandemic, this paper contributes to emerging 'aerographic' research on the socio-materialities of air and breath, based on an in-depth empirical study of three hospital-based lung infection clinics treating people with cystic fibrosis. We begin by outlining the changing place of atmosphere in hospital design from the pre-antibiotic period and into the present. We then turn to the first of three aerographic themes where air becomes a matter of grasping and visualising otherwise invisible airborne infections. This includes imagining patients located within bodily spheres or 'cloud bodies', conceptually anchored in Irigaray's thoughts on the 'forgetting of the air' and Sloterdijk's immunitary 'spherology' of the body. Our second theme explores the material politics of air, air conditioning, window design and the way competing 'air regimes' come into conflict with each other at the interface of buildings, bodies and the biotic. Our final theme attends to the 'cost of air', the aero-economic problem of atmospheric scarcity within modern high-rise, deep-density healthcare architectures.

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Section: Imagining Atmospheres – the Spherology Of ‘Cloud Bodies’mentioning

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Air care: an ‘aerography’ of breath, buildings and bugs in the cystic fibrosis clinic

Brown

Buse

Lewis

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Sociology Health & Illness

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“…The connection between biomedical immunity and political community has been approached as a historically shaped object in cultural history of science and biomedicine (Cohen, 2009). It has also been theorised as a biomedical phenomenon that undermines bodily and communal boundaries (Fishel, 2017;Newman et al, 2016). While these approaches differ considerably, they typically conceptualise immunity as an impossibility.…”

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Feminist Encounters: A Journal of Critical Studies in Culture a

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Founded in 2017, Feminist Encounters is a journal committed to argument and debate, in the tradition of historical feminist movements. In the wake of the growing rise of the Right across the world, openly neo-fascist national sentiments, and rising conservative populism, we feminists all over the world are needing to remobilise our energies to protect and advance gender rights. Feminist Encounters provides a forum for feminist theorists, scholars, and activists to communicate with each other, to better educate ourselves on international issues and thus promote more global understanding, and to enhance our critical tools for fighting for human rights. Feminism is an intellectual apparatus, a political agenda, and a programme for social change. Critical analysis of how gender discourses produce cultural identities and social practices within diverse lived realities is key to this change. We need to think more sharply in order to strategise well: as the discourses of conservatism renew and invigorate themselves, so we as feminist scholars need to be refining our amazonic swords in order not just to respond effectively but also to innovate our own ideas for equality and social justice. We are, of course, committed to intersectionality, a vital lens through which to see the contours of race/ethnicity, class, sexuality, age/ability, and explore how gendered scripts get lived, and filtered through these specificities of cultural organisation. Lived experience is never codified in terms of gender alone, and so our research will always be sensitive to the nexus of lived oppressions. The journal has a large editorial board and journal team, consisting of over forty scholars in twenty countries. This is deliberately inclusive in order that we can promote diversity and engage with different concerns from across the world. Our aim is not to simply talk to ourselves, reconfirming our localised assumptions, but to generate feminist encounters across regions, even if this is sometimes uncomfortable. Globalisation has been a triumph of neoliberalism, but digital technologies have also flattened and reduced the distance between us in dramatic ways, so that now we can talk to each other with unanticipated ease. This new access to each others' voices has also brought challenges to the way we think and do things, so that being a feminist today might be quite a different prospect to a person living in China, Iran, Norway, South Africa or the UK. Second Wave Feminism used the idea of 'sisterhood' to invoke solidarity between women. I've always rather liked Andrea Dworkin's claim, though, that: "Feminism is a political practice of fighting male supremacy in behalf of women as a class, including all the women you don't like, including all the women you don't want to be around, including all the women who used to be your best friends whom you don't want anything to do with anymore." The notion of sisterhood was challenged by Black feminists in the 1980s as being too conceptually white, thus bell hooks' trenchant critique that: "the idea o...

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“…Since the early 1990s health policy internationally has become increasingly preoccupied with resistant infections, the future of antibiotic efficacy and the legacy of their 'overuse'. Various reports presage a future 'post-antibiotic apocalypse' of global 'epidemic' proportions (Brown and Nettleton 2016;Nerlich and James 2009;Newman et. al.…”

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“…(ID19) This cosmopolitan immunitary horizon or plane highlights the significance of what Esposito refers to as the 'spatiality of biopoliticised flesh' (2008: 160). Here blog contributors spatialise familiar and unfamiliar experiences of infectivity Newman et. al.…”

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Bugs in the blog: Immunitary moralism in antimicrobial resistance (AMR)

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2017

Soc Theory Health

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This paper examines social theoretical literatures on immunity in the context of contemporary biopolitical debates about antibiotics and antimicrobial resistance (AMR). An exploration of contributions to the online forum 'Mumsnet' about antibiotic use and AMR serves as an empirical anchorage to these literatures. Five themes emerge from these data: 'temporal constraints and technological fixes'; 'restorative bodies'; 'spatial othering'; 'moral accountabilities' and 'domestic immunitary environments'. We offer the concept 'immunitary moralism' to capture the way antibiotics prompt moral reflection on immunity, biopolitical citizenship, bodily integrity and communal probity. We reveal how the moral politics of blame and immunitary othering are present in online debates about AMR, and explore the way these registers resonate with writings in biopolitical philosophy on the ascendency of immunitary individualism and tensions between community and immunity (communitas and immunitas).

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The MRSA Epidemic and/as Fluid Biopolitics

Cited by 14 publications

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Air care: an ‘aerography’ of breath, buildings and bugs in the cystic fibrosis clinic

Air care: an ‘aerography’ of breath, buildings and bugs in the cystic fibrosis clinic

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