Cells and the city: The rise and fall of urban biopolitics in San Francisco, 1970–2020

Author:

Murray Andy1ORCID,Browe Dennis2,Darling Katherine Weatherford3,Reardon Jenny2

Affiliation:

1. Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA

2. University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, USA

3. School of Nursing, University of Maine, Orono, ME, USA

Abstract

STS theories of biocapital conceptualize how biomedical knowledge and capital form together. Though these formations of biocapital often are located in large urban centers, few scholars have attended to how they are transforming urban spaces and places. In this paper we argue that the twinned technological development of cells and cities concentrates economic and symbolic capital and sets in motion contentious practices we name urban biopolitics. We draw on archival research and a nearly decade-long ethnography of the expansion of biomedical campuses in a major American city to show how the speculative logics of land development and biomedical innovation become bound together in a process we describe as speculative revitalization. We examine how the logics of speculative revitalization imagine a future in which cities and biomedicine produce wealth and health harmoniously together. However, in practice—as buildings of new biomedical urban campuses get built—the dreams of billionaire philanthrocapitalists to create global cities clash with the plans of biomedical researchers to create global health. We document the reproduction of stratified and racialized biomedical exclusions that result while also highlighting the unlikely opportunities for creating alliances committed to creating equitable biomedical research and healthcare in urban communities.

Publisher

SAGE Publications

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