Murphy Michelle Murphy

Economization of Life (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

What is a life worth? In the wake of eugenics, new quantitative racist practices that valued life for the sake of economic futures flourished. In The Economization of Life, Michelle Murphy provocatively describes the twentieth-century rise of infrastructures of calculation and experiment aimed at governing population for the sake of national economy, pinpointing the spread of a potent biopolitical logic: some must not be born so that others might live more prosperously. Resituating the history of postcolonial neoliberal technique in expert circuits between the United States and Bangladesh, Murphy traces the methods and imaginaries through which family planning calculated lives not worth living, lives not worth saving, and lives not worth being born. The resulting archive of thick data transmuted into financialized "e;Invest in a Girl"e; campaigns that reframed survival as a question of human capital. The book challenges readers to reject the economy as our collective container and to refuse population as a term of reproductive justice.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Mai 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822373216
• Artikelnr.: 54794407

Autorenporträt

M. Murphy

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  vii
Introduction. Bottles and Curves  1
Arc 1. Phantasmagrams of Population and Economy
1. Economy as Atmosphere  17
2. Demographic Transitions  35
3. Averted Birth  47
4. Dreaming Technoscience  55
Arc II. Reproducing Infrastructures
5. Infrastructures of Counting and Affect  59
6. Continuous Incitement  73
7. Experimental Exuberance  78
8. Dying, Not Dying, Not Being Born  95
9. Experimental Otherwise  105
Arc III. Investable Life
10. Invest in a Girl  113
11. Exhausting Data  125
12. Unaligned Feeling  133
Coda. Distributed Reproduction  135
Notes  147
Bibliography  179
Index  211