Humans, Animals and Biopolitics

By bringing together historically-oriented approaches and contemporary ethnographies which engage with science and technology studies (STS), this book reflects the multi-sited, multi-species and multiple ways in which lives have been assembled, disassembled, practised, policed and politicized. The book not only asks how control and knowledge are and have been extended over life, but also what happens when control fails; at practices which defy orders, escape detection or fail to produce. In doing so the book problematises and extends the Foucauldian notion of biopolitics, providing a unique resource of cases and theory regarding the ways in which we live together with non-human others.