Urban Geography Plenary Lecture—Public Health as Urban Politics, Urban Geography
Venereal Biopower in Seattle, 1943-1983
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8097166 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael G Brown (0000-0002-2561-7037, University of Washington), Michael Brown (0000-0003-3839-9822, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-29 |
| Publication date | 2009-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Urban Geography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0272-3638 • E-ISSN: 1938-2847 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.2747/0272-3638.30.1.1 |
| OpenAlex | W1985069233 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 31 |
| References cited | 48 |
In this plenary, I call for urban geographers to frame public health as a form of urban politics, theorized as governmentality and biopower. I interpret the politics of venereal disease (VD) in Seattle during the mid-20th century this way, detecting a series of dualities in key dimensions of the governance of VD, thus extending geographers' work on these concepts. There was an epistemic duality between biomedical and social framings of disease, a simultaneous techne between ascending and descending modes of power; a duality between descriptive and predictive visibilities; an identity paradox around which bodies were at risk; and a duality in ethos between conservative and progressive principles. Interpreting the city politics of public health this way foregrounds this local-state function as an important topic for urban political geography and brings a series of literatures together into conversation that have tended to remain distinct
Biopower · Ethos · Governmentality · Political science · Politics · Public health · Social science · Sociology · Body Image and Dysmorphia Studies · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Medicine · Zoonotic diseases and public health · Law · Public Administration
Moving “Out,” Moving On
The Biopolitical Imperative
Gender and sexuality I
Mobilizing drug consumption rooms
HIV transmission, public health detention and the recalcitrant subject of discipline
The Birth of the (Gay) Clinic
Influence of the metropolitan environment on end-of-life decisions
Gay in a ‘government town’
Making space for fat bodies
Urban Politics and Public Health
"Commentary on "Public Health as Urban Politics, Urban Geography
Time, space, and the authorisation of sex premises in London and Sydney
They say it's more aggressive in black women”
Religion and governmentality
Placing HIV beyond the metropolis
The embodied state
Between anatamo- and bio-politics
Geography and Biopolitics
Obesity/Fatness and the City
Conservation, biopolitics, and the governance of life and death
Arguments in Health Geography
Mapping Urban Geographies of Food and Dietary Health
Pandemic cities
Multiple racial futures
Exploring race and nation in playground propaganda in early twentieth-century Toronto
From Budapest to Brussels
Urban Politics as the Unfolding of Social Relations in Place
Supportive measures, enabling restraint
Sex, drink, and state anxieties
Favelas and the divided city
From "Rust Belt" to "Fresh Coast
City of plagues
Working Political Geography Through Social Movement Theory
Heat Wave
The Imperative of Health
Places or polygons? Governmentality, scale, and the census in the Gay and Lesbian Atlas
Spaces of Colonialism
Foucault's population geographies
Flaccid theory and the geographies of sexual health in the age of ViagraTM
The role of nursing in governmentality, biopower and population health
Accumulating populations
Giorgio agamben and the new biopolitical nomos
Political geography II
Governmentality and power in politically contested space
At Street Level
Governmentality and the Spatialized Discourse of Policy
Placing geographies of public health
Governmentality and territoriality
From micro-powers to governmentality
Rethinking governmentality
Active citizenship and the governmentality of local lesbian and gay politics
Agamben's geographies of modernity
Governing through contingency
Re-fragmenting the 'political
Towards a bio-territorial conception of power
Prosaic geographies of stateness
Governmentality, Geography, and the Geo-Coded World
The modern cemetery
You Could Truly Be Yourself If You Just Weren't You
Pleasure and Propriety
Risk Culture, Self-Reflexivity and the Making of Sexual Hierarchies
How to Be a Happy Homosexual?!' Non-Monogamy and Governmentality in Relationship Manuals for Gay Men in the 1980s and 1990s
Biopolitics and the molecularization of life
The Politics of Life Itself
| Unique citing works | 31 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,82 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2024 (16) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 30 |