Publication: Mikrobiopolitik in Kulturanthropologie und Europäischer
Ethnologie: Ein Versuch der Annäherung an mikrobielle
Beiträge zur Wissensproduktion
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Wolf, Meike
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Murcia: Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Murcia
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info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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Der Artikel greift mit dem von Heather Paxson skizzierten Konzept der
Mikrobiopolitik eine biopolitische Rezeptionslinie innerhalb des Fächerkanons
der Kulturanthropologie und Europäischen Ethnologie auf, um zu hinterfragen,
welche Praktiken und Politiken sich auf den regulierenden Eingriff in die
Interaktionsbeziehung zwischen Menschen und Mikroben gründen. Die Idee der
Mikrobiopolitik knüpft an naturwissenschaftliche sowie ethnografische Befunde
an, die den Beitrag von Mikroorganismen zu Prozessen von Krankheit und
Gesundheit, Evolution, Körpern und Körperpraktiken fokussieren. Basierend auf
der Annahme, dass Viren und Menschen in enger wechselseitiger Beziehung
zueinander stehen, wird das Beispiel der Influenza-Viren herangezogen, um zu
diskutieren, auf welche Weise Viren an der Gestaltung des menschlichen
Körpers sowie der Produktion von wissenschaftlichem Wissen beteiligt sind. Im
Vergleich zwischen Mikrobiopolitik und Biopolitik zeigt sich, dass beide
Perspektiven von der Prämisse ausgehen, dass Lebens- und Körperprozesse zum
Gegenstand von Macht- und Wissensordnungen werden und damit möglichen
politischen Interventionen einen Ansatzpunkt bieten. Beide Perspektiven
unterscheiden sich jedoch darin, welche Lebensprozesse als relevant gelten, in
welchen Zusammenhängen sich diese problematisieren lassen und welche Potenziale ihnen zugeschrieben werden. Für eine Mikrobiopolitik von
Infektionskrankheiten steht dabei weniger das pathogene Potenzial von
Mikroorganismen im Vordergrund, als vielmehr das biosoziale.
ABSTRACT The article takes up, through the concept of microbiopolitics outlined by Heather Paxson, a line of biopolitics reception within the framework of Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology, to investigate what policies and practices are based on medical regulated intervention in relationship within the interactions between men and microbes. The idea of microbiopolitcs is based on both natural-sciences diagnostics and ethnographic studies, putting the focus on the contribution of microorganism on disease processes and health, development, bodies and body practices. Based on the assumption that viruses and men are in close mutual relationships with one another, we take the example of the influenza virus, in order to discuss how viruses take part in the configuration of human bodies, as well as the production of scientific knowledge. In the comparison between microbiopolitics and biopolitics is shown that both perspectives are based on the premise that the body processes and life becomes the subject of orders of Power and Knowledge, and because of that, they are political interventions, which provide a starting point. However, they differ both perspectives in which processes of life are considered relevant, in which relationships they can be problematized and which potentials can be attributed to them. For a microbiopolitics of infectious disease which takes the spotlight is not much potential pathogenic microorganism, but the biosocial.
ABSTRACT The article takes up, through the concept of microbiopolitics outlined by Heather Paxson, a line of biopolitics reception within the framework of Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology, to investigate what policies and practices are based on medical regulated intervention in relationship within the interactions between men and microbes. The idea of microbiopolitcs is based on both natural-sciences diagnostics and ethnographic studies, putting the focus on the contribution of microorganism on disease processes and health, development, bodies and body practices. Based on the assumption that viruses and men are in close mutual relationships with one another, we take the example of the influenza virus, in order to discuss how viruses take part in the configuration of human bodies, as well as the production of scientific knowledge. In the comparison between microbiopolitics and biopolitics is shown that both perspectives are based on the premise that the body processes and life becomes the subject of orders of Power and Knowledge, and because of that, they are political interventions, which provide a starting point. However, they differ both perspectives in which processes of life are considered relevant, in which relationships they can be problematized and which potentials can be attributed to them. For a microbiopolitics of infectious disease which takes the spotlight is not much potential pathogenic microorganism, but the biosocial.
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