The Biopolitics of Care in Second World War Britain

Cover
Halftitle page
Series page
Title page
Copyright page
Contents
Illustrations
Imperatives: A Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Read, Listen, Obey and Keep a Good Heart
	Mass Observation as source and agent
	Humanitarian reason on the home front
	Biopolitics, post-humanism and animacies
	Mass Observation and the biopolitics of care
1 Keeping Watch Over the Population
	What people say on a windy night in March
	Careful propaganda
	Mass Observation, rumours and morale on the home front
	Careful intelligence saves lives
2 Verminous House Guests and Good Hosts: Evacuation Stories
	Implementation
	Evacuation stories
	Contamination threats
	The good citizen and the ingrate
	Feckless Eve
	The kind warden’s wife
	Conclusion
3 Lazy Dogs
	Early days of war
	In the massacre’s wake
	‘Aeroplanes or Bacon?’: calculations
	Mass Observation dog surveys
	Conclusion
4 Confused Animacies on the Home Front
5 Careless Homes Cost Lives
	Being careful
	Dwelling between care and security
	The careless home and its ‘problem family’
	Mass Observation
Notes
Bibliography
Archival collections
Index