Abstract
This proposal considers how the shift from discourse on hunger to food security follows changes in the technologies joined to liberal and neoliberal political economies. If, under liberalism, formulations of hunger appeared to support a world whose mechanisms for power and control underscored an impulse for prediction and standardization, with the techniques and technologies being organized in terms of a homeostasis and equilibrium that treated health as a property linked to the body’s capacity to do work, this way of organizing social and political life has come undone in recent years. The forms of uncertainty connected to life and the body today emphasize matters of food security unfolding alongside neoliberal technologies that make the body’s informational capacity a resource for a global financialized economy. This transition is explored in the knowledges that support these solutions, as the body’s configuration in discourses on nutrition and biological diversity direct us to the distinct political and economic arrangements supporting each of these solutions.
Presenters
Elizabeth BullockAssistant Professor of Sociology, Social and Behavioral Sciences, Alfred State College of Technology, SUNY, New York, United States
Details
Presentation Type
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Theme
Food Production and Sustainability
KEYWORDS
Neoliberalism, Biological Diversity, Food Security, Technical Solutions
