Bodily Fluids, Fluid Bodies and International Politics

In recent years, security actors have become increasingly concerned with health issues. Bodily Fluids, Fluid Bodies and International Politics reveals how understandings of race, sexuality, and gender are produced and reproduced through healthcare policy.

Analysing the plasma of paid Mexicana/o donors in the US, airport vomit during Ebola epidemics, and the semen of soldiers with genitourinary injuries, this book shows how security practices focus on governing bodily fluids.

Using a variety of critical scholarship—including feminist technoscience, queer studies, and critical race studies—this book utilises fluids to reveal the unequal distributions of life and death.