سياسات الجسد البشري: الاتجار بالأعضاء، والسلطة البيولوجية، وعدم المساواة العالمية عدم المساواة في رواية "الحصاد" لتيس جيريتسن

الملخص

The purpose of the present paper is to analyse the 1996 novel by Tess Gerritsen, Harvest, using a conceptual lens based on Michel Foucault's notion of (biopower) and Giorgio Agamben's degradation to 'bare life' together with socio-economic concepts from postcolonial and political economy scholarship about global inequality. The book is read as much less than popular fiction but as an ongoing cultural contest around the biopolitical regimes that determine not only which bodies become used up and disposed of on the world market, particularly in organs sold. Using Foucault's critique of the disciplinary management of populations, Agamben's concept of homo sacer, and the work of Scheper, Hughes, Lock and Cohen on organ commodification, it argues that Harvest outputs a narrative geography that embeds vulnerability in terms where the Global South body is reduced to a raw material from which affluent Global North bio-capital will be born. The paper also examines how Gerritsen uses the conventions of the thriller genre, procedural realism, a jeo-pardised woman protagonist, and a corrupt institutional context to investigate structural violence in the global organ market. In locating the novel within larger conversations on bioethics, medical tourism, and the necro-politics of resource extraction, this reading shows how the novel engages in a timely literary-political discourse about bodily autonomy, sovereignty and the commodification of human life.