Dr Melinda Cooper
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ARC Future Fellow Department of Sociology and Social Policy Rooom 104 R.C. Mills, A26 The University of Sydney NSW 2006 Australia email: phone: +61 2 9351 2361 fax: +61 2 9351 3918 |
ARC Future Fellow (June 2011-June 2015)
Current Research
Between June 2011 and June 2015, I will be undertaking a Future Fellowship funded by the Australian Research Council. The title of the project is ‘Experimental Workers of the World – The Labour of Human Research Subjects in the Emerging Bioeconomies of China and India.’ I am also initiating a new project called ‘The Fundamentals of Desire – Neoliberalism, Welfare and the Reinvention of Genealogy’ investigating the rise of faith-based welfare in post-Fordist (US, UK, Australia), post-colonial and post-socialist contexts.
Academic Qualifications
- 2001 Doctorate University of Paris VIII Thesis – ‘Nouvelle alliance, nouvelle naissance: la question de la genèse dans la pensée de Deleuze et Guattari’, supervisors Françoise Duroux and Hélène Cixous
- 1994 DEA (Diplôme d’Études Approfondies), University of Paris VIII
- 1992 BA (Honours), First Class Honours and University Medal, University of Sydney
Publications
Monograph
1) Melinda Cooper, Life as Surplus: Biotechnology and Capitalism in the Neoliberal Era, In Vivo series of Washington University Press, 2008. ISBN-10: 029598791X, ISBN-13: 978-0295987910
Book Contract
2) Melinda Cooper and Catherine Waldby, Clinical Labour: Human Research Subjects and Tissue Donors in The Global Bioeconomy, under contract to Duke University Press. Manuscript due August 2011
Refereed Articles
1) Melinda Cooper 'Complexity Theory after the Financial Crisis: The End of Neoliberalism or the Triumph of Hayek?' Journal of Cultural Economy 4(4), 2011, in press.
2) Melinda Cooper ‘Experimental Republic – Medical Accidents (Productive and Unproductive) in Post-Socialist China’ EASTS (East Asian Science, Technology and Society – An International Journal), 5(3), 2011, Special Issue on Biopolitics in China
3) Melinda Cooper ‘Trial by Accident: Tort Law, Industrial Risks and the History of Medical Experiment’ Journal of Cultural Economy 4(1), 2011, Special Issue on Transnational Medical Research.
4) Melinda Cooper and Jeremy Walker ‘Genealogies of Resilience: From Systems Ecology to the Political Economy of Crisis Adaptation’ Security Dialogue, 41(2), April 2011, Special Issue on Global Governance of Security and Finance.
5) Melinda Cooper, ‘Turbulent Worlds: Between Financial and Environmental Crisis’ Theory, Culture and Society, 27(2-3), 2010, 167-190, Special issue on Global Heating.
6) Melinda Cooper and Angela Mitropoulos, ‘The Household Frontier’ Ephemera: Theory and Politics in Organization, 9(4), 2009, 363-368, Roundtable on the Global Financial Crisis. Downloadable at http://www.ephemeraweb.org/journal/9-4/9-4coopermitropoulos.pdf
7) Melinda Cooper and Catherine Waldby, ‘From Reproductive Work to Regenerative Labour: The Female Body and the Stem Cell Industries’ Feminist Theory, 11(1), 2009.
8) Melinda Cooper, ‘Regenerative Pathologies – Stem Cells, Teratomas and Theories of Cancer’ Medicine Studies, 1(1), 2009, 55-66.
9) Melinda Cooper, ‘Orientalism in the Mirror – The Sexual Politics of Anti-Westernism’ Theory, Culture and Society, 25(6), 2008, 25-47.
10) Melinda Cooper, ‘Experimental Labour-Offshoring Clinical Trials to China’ EASTS East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal, 2(1), March 2008, 73-92.
11) Melinda Cooper and Catherine Waldby, ‘The Biopolitics of Reproduction: Post-Fordist Biotechnology and Women’s Clinical Labour,’ co-authored with Catherine Waldby, Australian Feminist Studies, 23(55), 2008.
12) Melinda Cooper, ‘Life, Autopoiesis, Debt – Inventing the Bioeconomy’ Distinktion – Journal of Scandinavian Social Theory, May 2007, 25-43, Special Issue on Bioeconomics
13) Melinda Cooper, ‘Stem Cell Science in India: Emerging Economies and the Politics of Globalization’, co-authored with Brian Salter, Amanda Dickins, Valentina Cardo Regenerative Medicine, 2(1), January 2007, 75-89.
14) Melinda Cooper, ‘The Unborn Born Again: Neo-Imperialism, the Evangelical Right and the Culture of Life,’ Postmodern Culture (PMC), 17(1), Fall, 2006.
15) Melinda Cooper, ‘China and the Global Stem Cell Bioeconomy: An Emerging Political Strategy?’ Regenerative Medicine, co-authored with Professor Brian Salter and Amanda Dickins, 1(5), 2006, 671-683.
16) Melinda Cooper, ‘Preempting Emergence – The Biological Turn of the War on Terror’, Theory, Culture and Society, 23(4), July 2006, 113-135.
17) Melinda Cooper, ‘Resuscitations: Stem Cells and the Crisis of Old Age,’ Body and Society, 12(1), January 2006, 1-23.
18) Melinda Cooper, ‘Regenerative Medicine: Stem Cells and the Science of Monstrosity’, Medical Humanities, 30 (1), June 2004, 12-22.
19) Melinda Cooper, ‘On the Brink: From Mutual Deterrence to Uncontrollable War,’ Contretemps: An Online Journal of Philosophy, Issue 4, September 2004, 2-18.
20) Melinda Cooper, ‘Insecure Times, Tough Decisions: The Nomos of Neo-Liberalism’, Alternatives: Global, Local, Political, 29(4), December 2004, 515-534.
21) Melinda Cooper, ‘Rediscovering the Immortal Hydra: Stem Cells and the Question of Epigenesis’, Configurations: A Journal of Literature, Science and Technology, December 2003, 1-26.
22) Melinda Cooper, ‘The Living and the Dead: Variations on De Anima’, Angelaki – Journal of the Theoretical Humanities, 7(3), December 2002, 81-104.
23) Melinda Cooper, ‘Vitesses de l’image, puissances de la pensée: la philosophie épicurienne revue par Deleuze et Guattari’, French Studies: A Quarterly Review (Oxford), LVI(1), January 2002, 45-60.
24) Melinda Cooper, ‘Transgenic Life: Controlling Mutation’, Theory and Event, Volume 5(3), August 2001.
25) Melinda Cooper, ‘Le lieu de l’homme: la topologie de la différence sexuelle chez Jacques Lacan’, Australian Journal of French Studies, XXXIV(1), 1997.
Currently in Review
26) Melinda Cooper 'Liquid Foundations – Debt, Default and the Limits of Epistemology’
27) Melinda Cooper ‘Pharmacology in the Age of Distributed Experiment’
Book Chapters
28) Melinda Cooper ‘Revolutionary Conservatism – Heidegger’s Event Philosophy and the Emergency of Capitalist Time’ in Politica y Acontecimiento ed Miguel Vatter and Miguel Ruiz Still, Ediciones Manantial, Argentina, 2012.
29) Melinda Cooper ‘The Law of the Household – Foucault, Neoliberalism and the Iranian Revolution’ in The Government of Life: Michel Foucault and Neoliberalism, ed. Vanessa Lemm and Miguel Vatter, Fordham University Press, 2012.
30) Melinda Cooper 'Pharmakologie im Zeitalter des verteilten Experiments' in Dimensionen der Bioökonomie. Objekte, Praxen, Strukturen, ed. Susanne Lettow, Transcript-Verlag, Bielefeld, 2012.
31) Melinda Cooper ‘Marx beyond Marx, Marx before Marx: Negri’s Lucretian Critique of the Hegelian Marx,’ in Reading Negri, ed. Pierre Lamarche, David Sherman, Max Rosenkrantz, Open Court Press, 2010, 127-147. ISBN 978-0-8126-9655-4
32) Melinda Cooper ‘The Silent Scream: Agamben, Deleuze and the Politics of the Unborn’ in Deleuze and Law: Forensic Futures, ed. Claire Colebrook, Patrick Hanafin and Rosi Braidotti, Palgrave Macmillan, 2009, 142-62. ISBN-10: 0230210171
33) Melinda Cooper ‘Monstrous Progeny: The Teratological Tradition in Science and Literature,’ in Frankenstein’s Science, The Knowledge Traditions of Romantic Culture, 1780-1830, eds. Jane Goodall and Christa Knellwolf, Ashgate Press, 2007, 87-98. ISBN-10: 0754654478
Coordination of Journal Special Issue
Contingent Labour, Speculative Labour: New Spaces and Times of Work, special issue of South Atlantic Quarterly (SAQ), edited by Melinda Cooper and T. E. Woronov, forthcoming 2012
Special Biopolitics issue of refereed electronic journal Culture Machine, edited and prefaced by myself, Andrew Goffey (Middlesex University, UK) and Anna Munster (University of New South Wales), 2005.
Recent Presentations
2011 ‘There is Hope, but Not for Us: Marxism and Messianism’ panel at APSA (American Political Science Association), with Miguel Vatter, Wendy Brown, Bruno Bosteels, September 1-4, 2011.
2011 ‘Capital, Genealogy, Reproduction’ seminar presentation in World of Capital: Conditions, Meanings, Situations series, organized by Stathis Gourgouris, Department of Comparative Literature, Columbia University, April 28-29
2011 'Surplus Value, Surplus Life’ panel presentation organized by Neferti Tadiar at MLA conference, Los Angeles, 4-9 January
2010 'Biopolitics/Bioeconomics’, one week presentation of my work at BioPolitica Research Centre, Universidad Diego Portales, Chile
2010 ‘Turbulent Worlds: Between Financial and Ecological Crisis’, Finance in Question/Finance in Crisis, 12-14 April, University of Manchester
2009 ‘Experimental Labour: Multinational, Multisite Clinical Trials in China’, Panel II on East-Asian Biopolitics (with Professors Susan Greenhalgh, Mei Zhan, Catherine Waldby), 4S (Society for Social Studies of Science) Annual Conference, Washington DC, October-November 2009
2009 ‘Introduction to Adele Clarke’, introductory paper to Professor Adele Clarke ‘From the Rise of Medicine to Biomedicalization: US Healthscapes 1890-Present’, Centre for Values, Ethics and the Law in Medicine (VELIM), University Of Sydney, July 27
2009 ‘The Household Frontier’ with Angela Mitropoulos, A Crisis Like No Other? What’s Different About this Financial Crisis? Symposium organized by the Australian Working Group in Financialization (AWFG), University Of Sydney, July 27.
2009 ‘The Green New Deal,’ paper presented, Institute for Advanced Studies, Quadrant Programme (Environmental Studies Programme), University Of Minnesota, 12-19 April.
2008 ‘On Viral Sovereignty – The Indonesian Response to Avian Influenza’, The Politics of Life and Innovation Workshop, University Of New South Wales, Department of Philosophy, December.
2008 ‘On Globalizing Clinical Trials’, ‘Climate Change: Precipitation and Event’ The Center For Place, Culture And Politics, Cuny Graduate Center, Invited Speaker, March 2008.