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Biological Citizens after Chernobyl

by Adriana Petryna (Author) (edit contributors)

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On April 26, 1986, Unit Four of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor exploded in then Soviet Ukraine. More than 3.5 million people in Ukraine alone, not to mention many citizens of surrounding countries, are still suffering the effects. Life Exposed is the first book to comprehensively examine the... read more

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  • “He characterized himself as one of the "living dead." "Our memory is gone. You forget everything - we walk like corpses."”
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  • The clinician’s wry observation suggests that being “healthy” today means being left alone, abandoned by the state, left exposed to the market, and without social supports. “Illness” provides some measure of protection against the vagaries of joblessness and social disorientation. People were converting themselves from Soviet citizens into biological citizens in their driving efforts to maintain a tie with the state and to avoid abandonment.
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  • One can describe biological citizenship as a massive demand for but selective access to a form of social welfare based on medical, scientific, and legal criteria that both acknowledge biological injury and compensate for it.
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  • Ukraine’s response to the Chernobyl legacy is unique in that it combines humanism with strategies of governance and state building, market strategies with forms of economic and political corruption.
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  • Citizens have come to rely on available technologies, knowledge of symptoms, and legal procedures to gain political recognition and access to some form of welfare inclusion.
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  • The traditional concept of citizenship casts citizens as bearers of natural and legal rights that are (and must be) protected as a matter of birthright.
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  • In the Ukrainian context, I consider the emergent form of biological citizenship from the following perspective: What is the value of life in that new political economy? How does scientific knowledge politically empower those seeking to set that value relatively high? What kinds of rationalities and biomedical practices are emerging with respect to novel social, economic, and somatic indeterminacies?
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  • For her, the real cause of their illness is not radiation but the loss of a work ethic and of lichnost’—a Russian word denoting a virtuous personality and often associated with a desire to work. She connected the illnesses of these new patients with a “struggle for power and material resources related to the disaster” (1995:23) and downplayed their symptoms as nonradiogenic.
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  • To be sick meant that one had to be equally motivated to work to obtain permission to be sick. This work folded organic and social processes into what might be called a sick role sociality.
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  • transformations are said to occur at two levels: that of the human body as the object of discipline and surveillance, and that of the population as the object of regulation, control, and welfare.
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  • Where ignorance once amounted to a form of repression (in the Soviet period), it is now used as a resource in the personal art of biosocial inclusion.
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On April 26, 1986, Unit Four of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor exploded in Ukraine, damaging human immunities and the genetic structure of cells, contaminating soils and waterways.

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  1. Adriana Petryna (Author)

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