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In the past decade, our rapidly changing world faced terrorism, global epidemics, economic and social strife, new communication technologies, immigration, and climate change to name a few. These fears and tensions reflect an evermore-interconnected global environment where increased mobility of people, technologies, and disease have produced great social, political, and economical uncertainty. The essays in this collection examine how monstrosity has been used to manage these rising fears and tensions. Analyzing popular films and televisions shows, such as True Blood, Twilight, Paranormal Acti

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Governing Sexual Health: Bridging Biocitizenship and Sexual Citizenship -- 2. Carceral Biocitizenship: The Rhetorics of Sovereignty in Incarceration -- 3. Epigenetics and the Biocitizen: Body Temporality and Political Agency in the Postgenomic Age -- 4. Chronic Citizenship: Community, Choice, and Queer Controversy -- 5. The Necropolitical Functions of Biocitizenship: The Sixth International AIDS Conference and the U.S. Ban on HIV- Positive Immigrants -- 6. Exploiting Vulnerable Citizens: Drug Testing and the Mentally Ill -- 7. Feeding Hunger- Striking Prisoners: Biopolitics and Impossible Citizenship -- 8. Biocitizenship on the Ground: Health Activism and the Medical Governance Revolution -- 9. The Rise of Health Activism: The Importance of Social Class to Biosociality -- 10. Patient Activists: Experience with Public Engagement -- 11. Nonhuman Biocitizens: Lab Animals, Cruel Optimism, and the Politics of Death -- 12. The Citizens of Incubators: Vessels of Care and Control -- 13. The Supra- Cyborg: The Rise of Global Governing Corporatocracies -- Acknowledgments -- About the Contributors -- Index

Cover -- BIOCITIZENSHIP -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- Introduction -- PART I. CATEGORICAL UNDERSTANDINGS -- 1. Governing Sexual Health: Bridging Biocitizenship and Sexual Citizenship -- 2. Carceral Biocitizenship: The Rhetorics of Sovereignty in Incarceration -- 3. Epigenetics and the Biocitizen: Body Temporality and Political Agency in the Postgenomic Age -- PART II. MODES OF GOVERNANCE -- 4. Chronic Citizenship: Community, Choice, and Queer Controversy -- 5. The Necropolitical Functions of Biocitizenship: The Sixth International AIDS Conference and the U.S. Ban on HIV-Positive Immigrants -- 6. Exploiting Vulnerable Citizens: Drug Testing and the Mentally Ill -- PART III. ACTIVISM AND RESISTANCE -- 7. Feeding Hunger-Striking Prisoners: Biopolitics and Impossible Citizenship -- 8. Biocitizenship on the Ground: Health Activism and the Medical Governance Revolution -- 9. The Rise of Health Activism: The Importance of Social Class to Biosociality -- 10. Patient Activists: Experience with Public Engagement -- PART IV. BEYOND THE BIOCITIZEN -- 11. Nonhuman Biocitizens: Lab Animals, Cruel Optimism, and the Politics of Death -- 12. The Citizens of Incubators: Vessels of Care and Control -- 13. The Supra-Cyborg: The Rise of Global Governing Corporatocracies -- Acknowledgments -- About the Contributors -- Index.