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Bio-surveillance and The Immobilizing Journey in The Inheritance of Loss | ||
Journal of Language Horizons | ||
مقاله 2، دوره 7، شماره 2 - شماره پیاپی 16، آذر 2023، صفحه 33-54 اصل مقاله (381.65 K) | ||
نوع مقاله: Research article | ||
شناسه دیجیتال (DOI): 10.22051/lghor.2022.33233.1554 | ||
نویسنده | ||
Zahra Taheri* | ||
Assistant Professor of English Literature, University of Kashan, Iran | ||
چکیده | ||
This article focuses on the notion of bio-surveillance in Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss (2006) from the perspectives of Ajana and Foucault. It tries to discuss why postcolonial journeying, despite its reputation for upsetting the old colonial paradigms of cultural demarcations, has ended up in the invisible biocitizenship of diasporic figures. To this end, the article elaborates on the biometric measures, ranging from the classic model of Anthropometry to the most advanced biometric technologies, and their deployment at the service of securitization in the center of empire. It is argued that these measures, by keeping the colonial paradigm of otherization intact, have divided society into friends / enemies and, later, reduced the latter into the bare life of invisible biocitizenship. Hence, it can be remarked that postcolonial journeying, despite its apparent dissolution of meta-narratives of identity or cultural geography, underpins the ‘us-versus-them’ binary and proves immobilizing. This means that the open-gate policy cannot wipe out the racist blemish from the West’s reputation since the racism which roots in bodily features (including skin) conducts identity, citizenship, and immigration policies. Hence, racial minorities are always the other, even though their bodies are subject to change. | ||
کلیدواژهها | ||
biopower؛ post-colonial journeying؛ biometric measures؛ Kiran Desai؛ biocitizenship | ||
عنوان مقاله [English] | ||
زیست نظارت و سفر ایستا در میراثی از خسران | ||
نویسندگان [English] | ||
زهرا طاهری | ||
استادیار گروه ادبیات انگلیسی، دانشگاه کاشان، ایران | ||
چکیده [English] | ||
مقالۀحاضربه بررسی مقولۀ «نظارت زیستی» ونقش آن در تعیین گفتمان جغرافیای جهان امروز میپردازد. نویسنده با استفاده از رویکرد فرهنگی و بهرهگیری از نظریات منتقدانی نظیر تیحاجآ جاناو میشل فوکو درپی پاسخ به این پرسش کلیدی است که چگونه مهاجرت به غرب به مسخ وجودی مهاجران و تبدیل آنها به شهروندانِ زیستیِ نامرئی درنظام اجتماعی حاکم منجر میشود؟ از این رو، میراثی از خسران (2006)، نوشتۀ کیرن دسای، مورد بحث قرار میگیرد تا با تمرکز بر موضوعاتی نظیر «اقدامات بیومتریکی»، «هوموساکر» و «شهروندی زیستی» چگونگی کارکرد ساختارهای نظارتی نوین را تبیین و تشریح کند. چنین استدلال میشود که مقولۀ سفر، علیرغم تداعی آن با فروپاشی دوانگارههای نژادی قومیتی، خلق جغرافیایی چندفرهنگیِ سیال و چالش کلانروایتهای «هویت اصیل» و «ملیت»، خود به ابزاری در راستای کنترل اقلیت نژادی بدل شده که با اعمال نظارتهای بیومتریک، دوانگارۀ «خود/ دیگری» و مرزبندی استعماری را بیش از پیش پررنگ میکند. | ||
کلیدواژهها [English] | ||
سفر, زیست نظارت, اقدامات بیومتریکی, شهروند زیستی, کیرن دسای | ||
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