Failing kidneys

Hotspots, blind spots and biopolitics of indifference

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2289211
AutoresC Kierans (0000-0001-7268-4438, Department of Public Health, Policy and Systems The University of Liverpool Liverpool UK, autor correspondente), César Padilla‐altamira (0000-0003-2926-2592, Centre for Research and Higher Studies in Social Anthropology (CIESAS), Unidad Occidente Guadalajara Mexico)
Ano2024
Volume38
Fascículo1
Páginas24-39
Data de publicação2024-03-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoMedical Anthropology Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0745-5194 • E-ISSN: 1548-1387
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/maq.12820
PMID37853527
OpenAlexW4387765797
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas65

Chronic kidney disease of non-traditional cause (CKDnt) is commonly associated with monocropping agriculture, heat stress and impoverished working conditions, referred to as CKDnt "hotspots." The condition is also emerging in various sites of environmental contamination, raising questions as to whether multiple variants of the condition exist as a result of different ecologies and different human-environment interactions. This paper examines the emergence of CKDnt around Lake Chapala in Mexico, where we document local efforts to gain recognition and reparation for CKDnt. We follow the ways patients, families and activists have mobilized specific and interlocking infrastructural failures to enact complaint and confront state inaction and neglect of their bodies, communities, and environments. Though their labors have formally achieved little, we discuss how they make visible a biopolitics of indifference, one bound to the production of structural "blindspots

Biopower · Environmental ethics · Neglect · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Climate Change and Health Impacts · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Law · Medicine · Water Governance and Infrastructure