Residual Governmentality: Pesticide Policing in Neo-socialist China. Liao, Y. The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, 21(5):416–433, Routledge, October, 2020. _eprint: https://doi.org/10.1080/14442213.2020.1827020![Residual Governmentality: Pesticide Policing in Neo-socialist China [link]](https://bibbase.org/img/filetypes/link.svg "link")
Paper doi abstract bibtex This article examines how food safety is policed between Shanghai and the primary site of vegetable production in its food supply chain, Lanling, in order to illuminate how neo-socialist governmentality works in contemporary China. I describe the policing web that has taken shape since 2009 as a means of regulating pesticide residues in agri-products. Following Foucault, I analyse this as a form of governmentality, operating through technologies (of surveillance and measurement) and habits (of food producers, distributors and users). I argue that it is critical to understand connections between the biological residues of production (pesticides) and the political residues that influence the processes of distribution and consumption (cultural forms of social trust allowing collective resistance to state regulation). Such intervention draws particular attention to the making of commons and community commitment which, I argue, clearly distinguish China’s neo-socialist biopolitics from neoliberal strategies practised in other places.
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title = {Residual {Governmentality}: {Pesticide} {Policing} in {Neo}-socialist {China}},
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abstract = {This article examines how food safety is policed between Shanghai and the primary site of vegetable production in its food supply chain, Lanling, in order to illuminate how neo-socialist governmentality works in contemporary China. I describe the policing web that has taken shape since 2009 as a means of regulating pesticide residues in agri-products. Following Foucault, I analyse this as a form of governmentality, operating through technologies (of surveillance and measurement) and habits (of food producers, distributors and users). I argue that it is critical to understand connections between the biological residues of production (pesticides) and the political residues that influence the processes of distribution and consumption (cultural forms of social trust allowing collective resistance to state regulation). Such intervention draws particular attention to the making of commons and community commitment which, I argue, clearly distinguish China’s neo-socialist biopolitics from neoliberal strategies practised in other places.},
language = {en},
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keywords = {China, Food Safety, Governmentality, Pesticide Residues, Policing Web},
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