Cryopolitics: Frozen Life in a Melting World

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Joanna Radin (Assistant Professor of History of Medicine and History, Yale University) Emma Kowal (Associate Professor, Deakin University)

Cryopolitics

Frozen Life in a Melting World

Joanna Radin (Assistant Professor of History of Medicine and History, Yale University), Emma Kowal (Associate Professor, Deakin University), Joanna Radin (Assistant Professor of History of Medicine and History, Yale University) , Emma Kowal (Associate Professor, Deakin University)

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MIT Press
24 March 2017

Anthropology; Mathematics & Sciences; History of science; Nuclear issues

Series: Cryopolitics

The social, political, and cultural consequences of attempts to cheat death by freezing life.

As the planet warms and the polar ice caps melt, naturally occurring cold is a resource of growing scarcity. At the same time, energy-intensive cooling technologies are widely used as a means of preservation. Technologies of cryopreservation support global food chains, seed and blood banks, reproductive medicine, and even the preservation of cores of glacial ice used to study climate change. In many cases, these practices of freezing life are an attempt to cheat death. Cryopreservation has contributed to the transformation of markets, regimes of governance and ethics, and the very relationship between life and death. In Cryopolitics, experts from anthropology, history of science, environmental humanities, and indigenous studies make clear the political and cultural consequences of extending life and deferring death by technoscientific means.

The contributors examine how and why low temperatures have been harnessed to defer individual death through freezing whole human bodies; to defer nonhuman species death by freezing tissue from endangered animals; to defer racial death by preserving biospecimens from indigenous people; and to defer large-scale human death through pandemic preparedness. The cryopolitical lens, emphasizing the roles of temperature and time, provokes new and important questions about living and dying in the twenty-first century.

Contributors Warwick Anderson, Michael Bravo, Jonny Bunning, Matthew Chrulew, Soraya de Chadarevian, Alexander Friedrich, Klaus Hoeyer, Frederic Keck, Eben Kirksey, Emma Kowal, Joanna Radin, Deborah Bird Rose, Kim TallBear, Charis Thompson, David Turnbull, Thom van Dooren, Rebecca J. H. Woods

Contributions by: Joanna Radin (Assistant Professor of History of Medicine and History Yale University), Emma Kowal (Associate Professor, Deakin University), Michael Bravo (University Senior Lecturer and Fellow of Downing College, University of Cambridge)
Edited by: Joanna Radin (Assistant Professor of History of Medicine and History Yale University), Emma Kowal (Associate Professor, Deakin University)
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 19mm
Weight: 658g
ISBN: 9780262035859
ISBN 10: 0262035855
Series: Cryopolitics
Pages: 376
Publication Date: 24 March 2017
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Joanna Radin is Assistant Professor in the Program in History of Science and Medicine at Yale University. Emma Kowal is Professor of Anthropology at Deakin University, Melbourne. Joanna Radin is Assistant Professor in the Program in History of Science and Medicine at Yale University. Emma Kowal is Professor of Anthropology at Deakin University, Melbourne. Charis Thompson is Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Women's Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Making Parents- The Ontological Choreography of Reproductive Technologies (MIT Press)