代谢政治：比较综述

IF 3.3 1区社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers Pub Date : 2024-09-02 DOI:10.1111/tran.12712

Maan Barua

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新的权力安排正在出现，以应对改善生活和提高生产力的追求所产生的动荡。本文提出了新陈代谢政治的概念，从而明确了这种安排：一种从纪律转变为权力的机制，用于调节物质、身体和环境的转变。新陈代谢政治的主导功能是将活体的转化能力和物质的循环动力转化为治理的对象目标。通过对英国和印度工业家禽养殖污染治理的比较分析，本文确定了新陈代谢政治的逻辑，并将其与人口生物政治区分开来。新陈代谢政治需要针对环境而非异常人群进行干预；其行动除了提高身体的生产力外，还针对身体的转化能力；其治理模式通过监管而非仅仅是纪律来运作；其运作技术通过调节而非封闭来进行。代谢政治是一种横向的权力形式。它因地制宜，具有历史偶然性，而不是千篇一律，具有普遍性。作为对工业化和生活廉价化带来的危机的回应，新陈代谢政治为当代生活和物质世界的管理和治理提供了重要启示。

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Metabolic politics: A comparative synthesis

New arrangements of power are emerging in response to the turbulence generated by the quest to improve life and render it productive. This paper specifies such arrangements by developing the concept of metabolic politics: an apparatus that shifts from discipline to power regulating material, bodily, and environmental transformations. The dominant function of metabolic politics is to render the transformative capacities of living bodies and the circulatory dynamics of materials into object‐targets of governance. Through a comparative analysis of regulating pollution from industrial poultry units in Britain and India, the paper identifies logics of a metabolic politics and distinguishes these from the biopolitics of populations. Metabolic politics entails interventions targeting a milieu rather than deviant populations; its actions are directed at transformative capacities of bodies in addition to improving their productivity; its modes of governance operates via regulation and not just discipline; and its techniques of operation proceed through modulation instead of enclosure. Metabolic politics is a transversal form of power. It is situated and historically contingent, rather than uniform and universal. As a response to crises generated by the industrialisation and cheapening of life, metabolic politics furnishes vital insights into the administration and governance of the contemporary living and material world.

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