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.

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细胞与城市：旧金山城市生命政治的兴衰，1970-2020


生物资本的 STS 理论概念化了生物医学知识和资本如何共同形成。尽管这些生物资本的形态通常位于大城市中心，但很少有学者关注它们如何改变城市空间和场所。在本文中，我们认为细胞和城市的孪生技术发展集中了经济和象征资本，并引发了我们称之为城市生命政治的有争议的实践。我们利用档案研究和近十年来美国主要城市生物医学园区扩张的民族志来展示土地开发和生物医学创新的投机逻辑如何在我们称之为投机复兴的过程中结合在一起。我们研究投机复兴的逻辑如何想象城市和生物医学和谐地共同创造财富和健康的未来。然而，在实践中，随着新的生物医学城市校园的建设，亿万富翁慈善资本家创建全球城市的梦想与生物医学研究人员创建全球健康的计划发生冲突。我们记录了由此产生的分层和种族化生物医学排斥的再现，同时也强调了创建致力于在城市社区创建公平的生物医学研究和医疗保健的联盟的不太可能的机会。