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2. Crisis accountability and aged “care” during COVID-19
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Twyford, Erin Jade
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- 2023
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3. Somebody is watching me: framing surveillance as rent-seeking behavior
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Dzhurova, Albena and Sementelli, Arthur
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- 2023
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4. YouTube and the protocological control of platform organisations
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Xiang, Yu
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- 2022
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5. Cultural competence as a technology of whiteness: race and responsibilisation in Scottish health and social care
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Russell, Lani
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- 2021
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6. Refugees as a key representation of vulnerability: politics and biopolitics
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Soultatou, Pelagia
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- 2022
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7. Three policy problems: biocreep and the extension of biopolitical administration.
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Powell, Henry and Beighton, Christian
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BIOPOLITICS (Philosophy) ,COVID-19 pandemic ,EDUCATION policy - Abstract
This paper critiques recent developments in educational discourse through an analysis of two UK Government White Papers and three specific problems. We argue that the latter herald forms of 'biocreep'. Echoing the analysis of such phenomena in the work of Michel Foucault, this gradual extension of 'biopolitics' into the field of education is a tendency which has accelerated with the Coronavirus pandemic and raises many questions for policy analysis. First, we show how the White Papers' approach to life and its related assumptions embody an attempt to further entrench the techniques of biopolitical population management in secondary and further education settings. Second, our analysis of the two Papers shows not just a deepening discursive shift towards ways of instrumentalising educational processes, but also identifies a triple problem of political assemblage: primo, this shift relies on the assemblage of a 'problematic subject'; secondo, it simultaneously assembles the problem of value extraction; and tertio, it obscures the problem of desire or unruliness of the assemblages created. Just as discursive practices of instrumentation, administration and evacuation try to manage these assemblages, they remain unable to contain the three problems they enshrine. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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8. Life, death, ethnography: epistemologies and methods of the quasi-event
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Posocco, Silvia
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- 2017
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9. Inoperativity and Destituent Power in Benjamin, Agamben and Spinoza.
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Richards, Serene
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CONSTITUENT power ,ANOMY ,GESTURE ,ONTOLOGY ,DISASTERS - Abstract
This paper examines the notion of destituent power in the work of Walter Benjamin and Giorgio Agamben. In contrast to constituent power's emphasis on the formation of a people relying on the metaphysical presuppositions this entails, including representation and identity, destituent power does away with such categories and renders them inoperative. This paper explores this gesture, together with the idea of a modal ontology that substitutes the "what" in the questions "what is being" for "how". It is argued here that this reconceptualization has the capacity to reorient the mode of politics functioning to take account of power's anomie and false promises to ever delay the catastrophe that has already arrived. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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10. Biopolitics and lifelong learning: the vitalistic turn in English further education discourse.
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Beighton, Christian
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FURTHER education (Great Britain) ,BIOPOLITICS (Philosophy) ,DISCOURSE ,VITALISM ,ADULTS ,CONTINUING education - Abstract
This paper argues that a shift in discourse about the nature and purpose of Further Education is under way in England. A recent White Paper, 'Skills for jobs: lifelong learning for opportunity and growth', issued by the UK government, is couched in terms which suggest that a prior reliance on the ideology of neoliberalism is now moving towards the objectives and instruments of what Michel Foucault termed biopolitics or the exploitation of life itself. I analyse the White Paper and related recent texts to show how a form of vitalist discourse accompanies attempts to accelerate potentially problematic processes of value-extraction. While these developments respond partly to the societal changes resulting from the threats to life of the Coronavirus pandemic and other existential crises, their likely impact suggests a shift in the discourses of lifelong learning: an existing apparatus of normalisation and control is now turning to biopolitical exploitation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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11. Intersex Epistemologies? Reviewing Relevant Perspectives in Intersex Studies.
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Suess-Schwend, Amets
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LITERATURE reviews ,INTERSEX people ,ORGANIZATIONAL citizenship behavior ,THEMATIC analysis ,THEORY of knowledge ,FRAMES (Social sciences) ,HUMAN rights ,HUMAN rights violations - Abstract
Over the last decades, intersex studies has achieved increasing development as a field of critical knowledge, in tight collaboration with discourses developed by intersex activism and human rights bodies. This paper proposes a self-reflexive review of epistemological perspectives in intersex studies within broader discursive fields, through a thematic analysis and comparative framing analysis. This analysis is based on a narrative literature review of academic contributions, activist declarations, and documents issued by human rights bodies conducted over the last decade as a work-in-progress project. Furthermore, it includes results of a scoping review of recent knowledge production in intersex studies carried out in Scopus within the subject area 'social sciences'. This paper focuses on the analysis of the following epistemological perspectives: human rights frameworks, legal perspectives and citizenship theories, reflections on biopolitics, medicalization and iatrogenesis, sociology of diagnosis framework, depathologization perspective, respectful health care models, and reflections on epistemological, methodological, and ethical aspects. The literature review raises questions about the existence of specific intersex epistemologies in intersex studies, their interrelation with discourses contributed by intersex activism and human rights bodies, and the opportunities for a contribution of theory making in intersex studies to the human rights protection of intersex people. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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12. Feeding Experts: Hunger Crisis and the Discourses of Eugenics in the Habsburg Empire, 1916–1918.
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Pojar, Vojtěch
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EUGENICS ,WORLD War I ,AUSTRIAN history ,HUNGER ,FOOD shortages ,IMPERIALISM ,FOOD preferences - Abstract
Large segments of Austria-Hungary’s population were affected by an escalating food shortage during World War I, leading to widespread undernourishment, particularly in urban areas. This paper argues that this impending crisis significantly empowered scientific experts. Operating between civil society and the imperial state, these experts multiplied and strengthened their connections to both spheres during the war, emerging as major producers of policy advice. This was true even in the realm of biopolitics, where decisions were made about whom to let live and whom to let die. Focusing on eugenics and its scientific proponents, this paper traces their growing interactions with voluntary associations providing food aid and civil administration at central, municipal, and local levels. Spanning four distinct urbanized contexts in the Habsburg Empire – Vienna, Budapest, Northern Bohemia, and Prague – the analysis reveals that eugenic ideas increasingly permeated discussions about food provisioning during the war in each of these locations. By the conflict’s end, eugenics had become a pivotal discourse framing public debate on the hunger crisis, depicting it in racialized terms as an intergenerational biological threat. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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13. A Genealogical Study of Facemasks in China: From Hygienic Modernity to Care
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Gong, Buyun
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SARS ,Original Paper ,Facemask ,Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) ,Biopolitics ,Subjectification ,General Social Sciences ,Care ,Manchurian plague - Abstract
Despite the omnipresence of facemasks in the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, recent studies on their sociopolitical aspects remain insufficient. This article conducts a genealogical study that investigates the emergence of two differing masking strategies in two epidemic events in Chinese history. First, during the Manchurian plague 1910/11, it shows how the germ theory and historical anecdotes made anti-plague masks thinkable and practicable as a solution not only for airborne contagion but also for the biopolitical problem of ‘unhygienic’ population. In the second part, the analytical focus is shifted to the emergence of collective mask-wearing practices during SARS 2002/03 from the vantage point of subjectification. Facemasks then became a symbol of care in the neoliberal regime of responsibilization. This article concludes by arguing for a rethinking of facemasks as actants who actively participate in the constitution of the world we share.
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- 2022
14. Nursing in deathworlds: Necropolitics of the life, dying and death of an unhoused person in the United States healthcare industrial complex.
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Jenkins, Danisha, Chechel, Laura, and Jenkins, Brian
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PALLIATIVE care nursing ,HEALTH care industry ,TERMINAL care ,HEALTH services accessibility ,TERMINALLY ill ,PRACTICAL politics ,EXTRACORPOREAL membrane oxygenation ,MEDICAL care ,SOCIOECONOMIC factors ,PSYCHOSOCIAL factors ,CRITICAL care medicine ,HOMELESS persons ,DEATH - Abstract
This paper begins with the lived accounts of emergency and critical care medical interventions in which an unhoused person is brought to the emergency department in cardiac arrest. The case is a dramatised representation of the extent to which biopolitical forces via reduction to bare life through biopolitical and necropolitical operations are prominent influences in nursing and medical care. This paper draws on the scholarship of Michel Foucault, Giorgio Agamben, and Achille Mbembe to offer a theoretical analysis of the power dynamics that influence the health care and death care of patients who are caught in the auspices of a neoliberal capitalist healthcare apparatus. This paper offers analysis of the overt displays of biopower over those individuals cast aside as generally unworthy of access to healthcare in a postcolonial capitalist system, in addition to the ways in which humans are reduced to 'bare life' in their dying days. We analyse this case study through Agamben's description of thanatopolitics, a 'regime of death', and the technologies that accompany the dying process, particularly in that of the homo sacer. Additionally, this paper illustrates the ways in which necropolitics and biopower are integral to understanding how the most advanced and expensive medical interventions make visible the political values of the healthcare system and how nurses and healthcare functions in these deathworlds. The purpose of this paper is to develop a greater understanding of biopolitical and necropolitical operations in acute and critical care environments, and to offer guidance to nurses in these spaces as they work to uphold ethical duties in a system that increasingly dehumanises. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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15. حالة الاستثناء والإنسان المستباح عند جورجيو أغامبين.
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محمد الهادي عمري
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- 2024
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16. La biopolítica racial del humanitarismo en África: examinando la construcción de la resiliencia europea en el Sahel y en la cuenca del lago Chad.
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OYAWALE, AKINYEMI
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FORCED migration ,INTERNATIONAL economic assistance ,HUMANITARIAN assistance ,BORDER security ,WATERSHEDS ,HUMANITARIANISM - Abstract
Copyright of Relaciones Internacionales (1699-3950) is the property of Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain, International Relations Studies Group (GERI) Law Faculty and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)
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- 2024
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17. Conservation beyond biopolitics: Vulnerability and abundance in Chennai's nature‐cultures.
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Srinivasan, Krithika
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LANDSCAPES , *POSSIBILITY , *HABITATS , *SPECIES - Abstract
This paper examines the possibilities for nature in contemporary times through a ground‐up investigation of nature practices in Chennai, India. It navigates dissonant strands of scholarship on the promise of urban regions as sites of exemplary social natures with an analytical framework that examines how autonomous nonhuman life in Chennai is variously enabled and inhibited. By studying a breadth of natures and nature practices within this urban site (instead of focusing on a particular species or habitat), the paper illuminates the socio‐material processes that undermine some natures even while supporting others, highlighting paradoxical responses to nonhuman agencies and resilience within the domain of ecological concern. The simultaneous analysis of Chennai's abundant and diminishing natures explains dissonances in urban natures scholarship, while offering fresh insights on more equitable approaches to nonhuman nature in human‐dominated landscapes. Specifically, it points to the value of reconfiguring concepts and practices of nature, both within and beyond conservation, in ways that are attentive to the plural forms of nonhuman flourishing and experiential vulnerability. Any meaningful prospect for more‐than‐human futures in urbanising worlds, the paper argues, rests not on biopolitical conservation that seeks to reproduce the past or build future ecologies of ‘legitimate’ natures, but on desisting from the displacement of, and re‐allowing room – conceptual, material and ethical – for already existing natures, whether scientifically valued or unintentional, whether imperilled or flourishing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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18. Metabolic politics: A comparative synthesis.
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Barua, Maan
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INDUSTRIAL pollution , *COMPARATIVE government , *DIRECT action , *INDUSTRIALIZATION , *TURBULENCE - Abstract
New arrangements of power are emerging in response to the turbulence generated by the quest to improve life and render it productive. This paper specifies such arrangements by developing the concept of metabolic politics: an apparatus that shifts from discipline to power regulating material, bodily, and environmental transformations. The dominant function of metabolic politics is to render the transformative capacities of living bodies and the circulatory dynamics of materials into object‐targets of governance. Through a comparative analysis of regulating pollution from industrial poultry units in Britain and India, the paper identifies logics of a metabolic politics and distinguishes these from the biopolitics of populations. Metabolic politics entails interventions targeting a milieu rather than deviant populations; its actions are directed at transformative capacities of bodies in addition to improving their productivity; its modes of governance operates via regulation and not just discipline; and its techniques of operation proceed through modulation instead of enclosure. Metabolic politics is a transversal form of power. It is situated and historically contingent, rather than uniform and universal. As a response to crises generated by the industrialisation and cheapening of life, metabolic politics furnishes vital insights into the administration and governance of the contemporary living and material world. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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19. Respect the power of the beast: an ecocritical analysis into interspecies relationships in Shaun Tan's Tales from the Inner City.
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Baghban, Zohreh and Poursanati, Susan
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ECOCRITICISM ,HUMAN-animal relationships - Abstract
The picturebook Tales from the Inner City (2018), created by Shaun Tan, encompasses various surreal mysteries about humans and animals. His stories represent a sociopolitical intervention, beyond the conventional purpose of animal/object representation serving humanistic allegories and show animals as autonomous beings finding their long-ignored place in the world. These imaged stories stretch literature's ability at interactions between humans and animals. Tan's experiment with new styles of reading calls for a reconfigured rhetoric. An interdisciplinary approach of ecocriticism and biopolitics creates sufficient grounds to examine the boundaries of what is human/animal. It questions the centrality of humans in literature. This article uses the biopolitical readings of Mario Ortiz-Robles as he moves beyond allegorical readings of animal tropes, the companion species of Donna Haraway as she observes animal/human relations, and Frank Serafini's methods at interpreting visual aspects of picturebooks. This paper looks at the selected tales – 'Fox', 'Eagle', 'Hippo', 'Lungfish', and 'Frog' to examine how Shaun Tan transforms humans in body and dreams through forceful encounters with animals, thus repositioning the power dynamic in human/animal relations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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20. Watchmen: critical criminology and biopolitical semantics.
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Koros, Dimitris
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CRITICAL criminology ,FASCISM ,BIOPOLITICS (Sociobiology) ,NOIR fiction - Abstract
The paper attempts to critically examine Allan Moore's Watchmen in terms of its elements that could be utilised for critical power thinking and the critique of fanatic and/or apolitical self-proclaimed saviours of society. The first part of the paper attempts to read Rorschach through the prism of critical criminology, as he represents the novel's most distinct expression of revenge and retribution, which, eventually, is linked to fascist-like practices. The second part of the paper is dedicated to the reading of Veidt's macabre plan and his set of advice for self-care in terms of a twofold biopolitical strategy that entails both the thanatopolitical effect of killing millions for the sake of life itself and preaching the need for the latter's optimisation to achieve individual and collective happiness. In the end, Watchmen is a 'superhero neo-noir' critique to both worldviews, since its point of departure is the critique of superheroes overall, as 'nothing works' and therefore 'nothing ever ends' if the structural reasons behind unfairness and oppression remain untouched. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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21. Immunitarianism: defence and sacrifice in the politics of Covid-19
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Btihaj Ajana
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Immunity, Herd ,History ,Vaccination Coverage ,media_common.quotation_subject ,0603 philosophy, ethics and religion ,Geopolitics ,Global Health ,03 medical and health sciences ,Politics ,0302 clinical medicine ,History and Philosophy of Science ,Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) ,State (polity) ,Sacrifice ,Ethnicity ,Humans ,030212 general & internal medicine ,Roberto esposito ,media_common ,Government ,Original Paper ,Community Participation ,Immunity ,COVID-19 ,06 humanities and the arts ,Armed Conflicts ,Solidarity ,Coronavirus ,Social Class ,Biopolitics ,Philosophical analysis ,Political economy ,Intergenerational Relations ,060302 philosophy ,Metaphor ,Biopower - Abstract
As witnessed over the last year, immunity emerged as one of most highly debated topics in the current Covid-19 pandemic. Countries around the globe have been debating whether herd immunity or lockdown is the best response, as the race continues for the development and rollout of effective vaccines against coronavirus and as the economic costs of implementing strict containment measures are weighed against public health costs. What became evident all the more is that immunity is precisely what bridges between biological life and political life in the current climate, be it in terms of the contentious notion of herd immunity, the geopolitical struggle for vaccines, or the possible emergence of “Covid-elite”, i.e. holders of so-called “immunity passports”. Immunity, as such, is certainly not only a matter of science and biology alone, but is inherently political in the way that pandemics themselves are often highly politicised. Drawing on the work of Roberto Esposito and other literature from the field of biopolitics and immunology, this paper provides a critical examination of the concept of immunity in light of the recent events, highlighting the intersections between the politics of defence and the politics of sacrifice which animate governments’ immunitary responses to the Covid-19 pandemic. The paper ends with a discussion on the forms of solidarity and local initiatives that have been mobilised during the current pandemic and their potential for an affirmative form of biopolitics. Overall, the main aim of this paper is to provide a critical cultural and philosophical analysis of Covid-19 debates and responses and a nuanced account on the biopolitical effects of the current pandemic, highlighting the paradoxical nature of immunity which straddles at once negative practices of defence and sacrifice as well as affirmative forms of community and solidarity beyond state apparatuses.
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- 2021
22. Evolutionary emotion of AI and subjectivity construction in The Windup Girl
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Jiang, Yuqin
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- 2024
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23. UNDERSTANDING THE DISASTER UNCONSCIOUS: THE MARICHJHAPI MASSACRE DEPICTING PRECARIOUS LIVES AND VULNERABLE ECOLOGIES IN AMITAV GHOSH'S THE HUNGRY TIDE.
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RAY, Ranit and SENGUPTA, Samrat
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MASSACRES ,ECOFEMINISM ,POSTCOLONIAL literature ,POSTCOLONIALISM ,DISASTERS ,LOCAL history ,REFUGEES - Abstract
The paper situates the massacre of Dalit refugees of Marichjhapi Island (1978-79) in West Bengal, India through a multidisciplinary reading of Amitav Ghosh's novel The Hungry Tide (2004) along with local history, vernacular literature, reports and experiential narratives. The refugees from East Pakistan/Bangladesh who settled on the island of Marichjhapi at Sundarbans (currently one of the most ecologically endangered places on Earth) were forcefully evicted by the government citing ecological issues. Utilizing a framework that incorporates both ecocriticism and postcolonial theory, this paper reads the vulnerable humans and non-humans, especially the island's unique ecosystem and fauna as victims of anthropocentrism and biopolitics, propelled by ecological and political factors acting together. Taking up from Ghosh's own interventions on ecological thought and the Sundarbans, the paper further delves into the concept of "the disaster unconscious" in postcolonial literature as suggested by Pallavi Rastogi through a close reading of The Hungry Tide. It describes the co-constitution of precarious lives (both human and non-human) and fragile environments during disaster as what Blanchot would call "outside of temporality" marking the 'necroeconomy' of the nation-state, as conceptualized by Achille Mbembe. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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24. Reading Chinese anti-COVID-19 pandemic narratives on facemasks as the art of disaster governance: a semiotic and biopolitical survey.
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Han, Lei
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NARRATIVE art ,GROUP psychotherapy ,COVID-19 pandemic ,PANDEMICS ,DISASTERS - Abstract
In China and around the world, the global spread of COVID-19 has made wearing a facemask more than a pragmatic or aesthetic individual-level issue: it has instilled in people deontic value. In Chinese anti-epidemic narratives, the semiotic ideology of wearing a facemask has been closely related to collectivism, patriotism and, to a certain degree, nationalism. The facemask not only serves as a protective biomedical device but also as a cultural, political and spatial sign of the line of defence against disorders of the natural system, to establish the order of the social system. This paper argues from the perspective of semiotics and life politics that such mask narratives have effectively helped China prevent the large-scale spread of the epidemic across the nation and have served as a means of collective psychotherapy, paradoxically transforming individual separation into collective spiritual cohesion. Previous semiotic studies of disaster have not paid much attention to plagues or disaster governance discourse, between which biomedicine plays an important role. Thus, this paper aims to shed light on how biomedicine works with politics in coding and decoding the relationship between the natural system of the plague and the social system of governance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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25. Care for Transactions.
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Bailey, Adrian J., Breines, Markus, Emmerson, Phil, Esson, James, Halvorsen, Sam, Hope, Jessica Chloe, Joronen, Mikko, Koh, Sin Yee, Krishnan, Sneha, Lai, Karen, McFarlane, Colin, McLean, Jessica, Reid, Louise, and Sparke, Matthew
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GEOGRAPHERS ,POLITICAL ecology - Abstract
In this editorial we ask key questions about what it means to publish 'a journal' in a world of publishing which is driven by individual article metrics and online access. Seeing the value of journals as venues for intellectual debate, we therefore set out a renewed vision as to how the Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers can provide space for more collective and collaborative approaches to geographical debate. This approach revolves around the idea of 'transactions' itself and creating spaces in the journal for more commentary, debate and dialogue, alongside continuing to publish landmark papers. In this editorial we ask key questions about what it means to publish 'a journal' at the current moment, and set out a renewed vision as to how Transactions of the Insittute of British Geographers might provide space for more collective approaches to geographical debate. This approach revolves around the idea of 'transactions' itself and creating spaces in the journals for more commentary, debate and dialogue, alongside continuing to publish landmark papers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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26. Genome editing: From bioethics to biopolitics
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Sparrow, Robert and Mills, Catherine
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- 2022
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27. Worlding and weirding with beaver: A more‐than‐human political ecology of ecosystem engineering.
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Lorimer, Jamie
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POLITICAL ecology , *BEAVERS , *GLACIAL Epoch , *ECOSYSTEMS , *ENGINEERS , *BIOMIMICRY , *AGRICULTURAL scientists - Abstract
Scientists and policy‐makers promote 'Nature‐based Solutions' to the interconnected challenges associated with the Anthropocene. Often these involve the strategic use of ecosystem engineers: animals, plants, and microbes with disproportionate ecological agency capable of regional or even planetary‐scale niche construction. This environmental mode of biopolitics is promoted as biomimicry: restoring, rewilding, or rewetting diverse ecological systems. This paper critically examines the multispecies relations promised by this model through a focus on beaver in Britain over the last 12,000 years. It begins with beaver making Britain hospitable for early settlers and agriculturalists as they returned after the last ice age. It traces the subsequent demise of beaver due to hunting and land use change, and then follows the recent return of beaver as tools for natural flood management and nature recovery. It attends to situations in which these multispecies world‐making projects go awry in the weird ecologies of the Anthropocene. This story of beaver helps situate enthusiasms for proactive ecosystem engineering in deeper time. It highlights the beguiling potential of Nature‐based Solutions while cautioning against tendencies towards anthropocentrism, an apolitical mononaturalism, and an ecomodernist hubris. The paper combines concepts from archaeology, ecology, anthropology, and geography into a new framework for theorising multispecies acts of worlding and weirding. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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28. Ethopolitical media: Organizing Assistive Technology, disability and care in the platform society.
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Napolitano, Domenico and Sicca, Luigi Maria
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ASSISTIVE technology ,DIGITAL technology ,DISABILITIES ,HIGH technology industries ,HEALTH self-care ,DISABILITY studies - Abstract
In this paper we prompt a re-reading of Assistive Technology (AT) as a media system that organizes disability in the framework of digital health-care and the platform society. Drawing on disability media studies and organization studies, we investigate how the arrival of big tech and digital platforms in the field of AT reconfigures ways to account for, classify and potentially discriminate against disability. We argue that this new configuration can be explained as a shift from a biopolitical model – oriented toward disability normalization – to an ethopolitical model, oriented toward optimization and health enhancement. In the conclusions, we put forward the concept of ethopolitical media and discuss the implications of this for wider debates in media and cultural studies which deal with the relationship between media, health, and self-care. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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29. Para una genealogía de la biopolítica italiana: Roberto Esposito y la recepción temprana de los cursos de Michel Foucault.
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Castro, Edgardo
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MARXIST philosophy , *MACHIAVELLIANISM (Psychology) , *TRANSLATING & interpreting , *LECTURES & lecturing , *CRISES , *GOVERNMENTALITY - Abstract
This paper deals with the reception of the Foucauldian notion of governmentality in Roberto Esposito's thought by taking into account the Italian translation of Foucault's lectures of 1977 and 1978 at the Collège de France. First, the different contexts of reception of these lectures are presented, in particular the Anglo-Saxon studies of governmentality and the crisis of Italian Marxism in the late 1970s. Secondly, Foucault's position in his courses of these years is analyzed from the perspective of the opposition between Machiavellianism and anti-Machiavellianism, precisely in view of the Italian reception. Finally, this paper analyses the reception of the notion of governmentality by Roberto Esposito in his 1980 work La politica e la storia. The paper shows the importance of this early reception of Foucault's lessons regarding the formation of the Italian biopolitical current and its specificities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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30. Forced Migration as a "State of Exception": The Precarious Lives of Migrant Women of Jammu and Kashmir in Kulvir Gupta's Embers the Beginning and Embers the End of Mirpur.
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Bali, Rishav and Malhotra, Isha
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FORCED migration ,WOMEN ,IMMIGRANTS - Abstract
This paper explores the lost stories of the precarious lives of thousands of migrant women from the community that the Indian government officially calls Displaced Persons of Pakistanoccupied Jammu and Kashmir (DPs of PoJK). We examine the stories of those who survived the painful migration that followed tribal raids in the western parts of the kingdom of Jammu and Kashmir, which ceased to exist after its accession with the Union of India on October 26, 1947. Drawing on the concept of precarity as propounded by Judith Butler, this paper critically examines the torturous experiences of women in Kulvir Gupta's autobiography, Embers the Beginning and Embers the End of Mirpur (2018). The paper also employs Agamben's conception of "camp" to analyze the unlawful and inhumane treatment these women received in migrant camps such as Kalghar and Alibegh. It shows how their life was relegated to "bare lives" while being differentially subjected to gender-based violence amidst the territorial conquest in the region. This paper concludes that these migrant women from Mirpur and the entire western region of the erstwhile Jammu and Kashmir were highly vulnerable to sexual exploitation in the contemporary political order of the region. This paper, being the first of its kind on the select migrant group, attempts to voice the pains and struggles of these courageous migrant women of whom only a few are alive today. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
31. Visioning Alternatives to Segregated Education: A Disability Justice and Access-Centered Pedagogy Approach.
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Acevedo, Sara M., Brown, Lydia X.Z., and Cowing, Jess L.
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SPECIAL education ,SEGREGATION in education ,ABLEISM ,DISCRIMINATION against people with disabilities - Abstract
In the United States, as in most of the Global North, disability has historically been regarded as a deficit, requiring clinical intervention, professional oversight, and special schooling. This ideology, referred to as ableism, is linked with settler colonialism and the matrix of oppression that upholds racial capitalism. The aims of this paper are twofold: First, we examine the correlation among normative whiteness, racialized exploitation, and the depiction of disabled Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) as disposable others. Second, we employ a joint biopolitical and settler colonial analysis to re-examine US special education drawing on our experiences as disabled, critical disability studies scholars—two of whom are negatively racialized and two of whom are queer. Finally, we draw upon the principles of Disability Justice and Access-Centered Pedagogy to formulate recommendations for an alternative to segregated education for all students, centering the experiences of those disproportionately impacted by systemic oppression. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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32. Postdigital-biodigital: An emerging configuration.
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Peters, Michael A., Jandrić, Petar, and Hayes, Sarah
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DIGITAL technology ,BIOECONOMICS ,SUSTAINABILITY ,POSTHUMANISM ,POSTMODERNISM (Philosophy) - Abstract
This dialogue (trilogue) is an attempt to critically discuss the technoscientific convergence that is taking place with biodigital technologies in the postdigital condition. In this discussion, Sarah Hayes, Petar Jandrić and Michael A. Peters examine the nature of the convergences, their applications for bioeconomic sustainability and associated ecopedagogies. The dialogue paper raises issues of definition and places the technological convergence ('nano-bio-info-cogno') – of new systems biology and digital technologies at the nano level – in an evolutionary context to speculate, on the basis of the latest research, future possibilities. The paper also reviews these developments within familiar landscapes of posthumanism and postmodernism, raises the question of political bioeconomy and the role of postdigital education within it. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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33. "I Can't Read This": Plagiarism, Biopolitics, and The Production of The Trans‐Dividual Student.
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Iantosca, Tony
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HONESTY ,PLAGIARISM ,STUDENT cheating ,EDUCATION ethics ,EDUCATORS ,STUDENTS ,UNIVERSITIES & colleges - Abstract
In this paper, Tony Iantosca situates the academic integrity policies of US colleges and universities, as well as student plagiarism, in biopolitical frameworks. By examining the aporias that result from student plagiarism in the context of neoliberal knowledge production, which produces and depends upon individualized, skills‐bearing students, Iantosca interrogates what educators can learn philosophically and pedagogically from the mutual misrecognition that occurs between institutional policy and the transgressing student. He frames this discussion with Michel Foucault's classic work on biopolitics as well as Roberto Esposito's immunitary paradigm in order to examine the implications of student illegibility for what Bernard Stiegler has called education's trans‐individuating potential. The argument that emerges is that student plagiarism has multiple, contradictory significances that can nonetheless teach educators important lessons about property and individualism, and these lessons must be retained as we reinitiate, rather than punish, plagiarizing students. Iantosca then closes the paper with a brief consideration of the pedagogical implications of this argument. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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34. Health, hygiene, and the formation of school subjects.
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Ziols, Ryan and Ghosh, Abhinav
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CURRICULUM ,HYGIENE ,SCHOOL hygiene - Abstract
By tracing roughly 200 years of the formation of American school subjects, this paper complicates some of the self-evidence for calls to adapt school subjects according to complex health concerns, more recently amplified by COVID-19. To do so, the paper diagrams a counter-memory of three key amalgams of health related to the makings of school mathematics and reading-as-literacy: balancing mind–body-spirit-matter-nation networks, scientizing a hygiene of instruction for 'ethnic' minds, and reconfiguring bio-psycho-social adjustment – all pursued as problems of duration, intensity, and distance from differently dynamic and/or racializing norms. Throughout, we draw attention to how both universalizing and ethno-specific orthodoxies and their proposed alternatives have produced school subjects as self-evident strategic sites for addressing health concerns that invite underappreciated dangers today. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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35. The discourse of delivering person‐centred nursing care before, and during, the COVID‐19 pandemic: Care as collateral damage.
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Byrne, Amy‐Louise, Harvey, Clare, and Baldwin, Adele
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NURSES , *MEDICAL protocols , *MEDICAL care , *NURSING , *PATIENT-centered care , *CHRONIC diseases , *NURSING practice , *PUBLIC administration , *COVID-19 pandemic , *LABOR supply - Abstract
The global COVID‐19 pandemic challenged the world—how it functions, how people move in the social worlds and how government/government services and people interact. Health services, operating under the principles of new public management, have undertaken rapid changes to service delivery and models of care. What has become apparent is the mechanisms within which contemporary health services operate and how services are not prioritising the person at the centre of care. Person‐centred care (PCC) is the philosophical premise upon which models of health care are developed and implemented. Given the strain that COVID‐19 has placed on the health services and the people who deliver the care, it is essential to explore the tensions that exist in this space. This article suggests that before the pandemic, PCC was largely rhetoric, and rendered invisible during the pandemic. The paper presents an investigation into the role of PCC in these challenging times, adopting a Foucauldian lens, specifically governmentality and biopolitics, to examine the policies, priorities and practical implications as health services pivoted and adapted to changing and acute demands. Specifically, this paper draws on the Australian experience, including shifting nursing workforce priorities and additional challenges resulting from public health directives such as lockdowns and limitations. The findings from this exploration open a space for discussion around the rhetoric of PCC, the status of nurses and that which has been lost to the pandemic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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36. Education for sustainable development among rich and poor: didactical responses to biopolitical differentiation.
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Bylund, Linus
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SUSTAINABLE development education , *PHILOSOPHY of education , *SOCIAL responsibility - Abstract
Previous literature informed by biopolitical theory has shown how global education for sustainable development differentiates between populations by assigning different roles, responsibilities, and lifestyles to rich and poor. Taking these arguments as a point of departure, this paper first identifies three different 'problems' pertaining to biopolitical differentiation within this literature and then elaborates on potential didactical responses to such problematic differentiation. The suggested didactical responses draw on Judith Butler's theories of vulnerability, Jacques Rancière's ideas of a presupposition of equality, and Michel Foucault's writing on ethics and self-formation. The paper contributes to previous research on biopolitical differentiation in education for sustainable development by suggesting potential didactical responses to the problematics put forth in these works. It also contributes to previous literature on how Butler's, Rancière's and Foucault's theories are relevant to education by relocating the arguments to the context of global implementation of education for sustainable development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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37. Earthquake, disaster capitalism and massive urban transformation in Istanbul.
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Güney, K. Murat
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EARTHQUAKES , *HOUSING , *BUILDING sites , *NATURAL disasters , *CAPITALISM , *SHOCK therapy , *RIGHTS - Abstract
In this paper, I discuss how the earthquake risk is exploited by 'disaster capitalism', in order to convert Istanbul to a massive construction site. The shock of the 1999 Marmara Earthquake has been effectively used by the neoliberal market and government as 'a shock therapy' to implement a construction‐led development model for Turkey and to favour the construction sector by introducing new incentives, exceptional rights and interventions, which otherwise might be challenged. The current Turkish government justify the ongoing massive urban transformation and new mass housing projects as an improvement of the housing stock to make residential buildings stronger and more resilient to earthquakes. However, areas actually under earthquake risk do not match the areas that are officially declared under disaster risk by the government. The Disaster Law #6306 that granted the government the absolute right to expropriate land based on the justification of 'protecting residents against earthquakes and other natural disasters' was applied in a selective way to seize valuable land in Istanbul. In the paper I explore how the disaster was quickly converted to an opportunity for economic growth. To do that I introduce stories of three different neighbourhoods in Istanbul, namely Moda, Tozkoparan and Fikirtepe, each of which experience the ongoing massive urban transformation differently based on the land value of the neighbourhoods, class position of the residents, and residents' capacity to organise in order to protect their rights. I describe, how disaster capitalism is lived and experienced differently in these three neighbourhoods. Although the massive construction projects are indifferent to life's sustainability, those projects are justified as interventions in terms of public health and safety through making housing resilient to earthquakes. I critically discuss how in each case biopolitics presents disaster capitalism's massive urban transformation projects as a manifestation of liveliness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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38. Contesting the man-eater animal(ity): changing paradigms of the colonial-colonised relationship
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Rani, Parul and Kumar, Nagendra
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- 2021
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39. Social, Moral and Legal Rules, Biopolitics and the Covid-19 Crisis.
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Garbarino, Carlo
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COVID-19 pandemic ,SOCIAL norms ,TAXONOMY ,ETHICS ,NORMATIVITY (Ethics) - Abstract
The article relies on the social and legal perspective not only to better understand how norms are created and change through interactions among agents, but also to shed light on how norms are internalized in social practice. The article is organized as follows. Initially the article explores the basic assumption that deontic operators acquire their meaning via social conventions generating "personal rules" having a "mental content" which belongs to a wider "normative mind", a mind that obviously encompasses all sorts of choices. The article then describes the different types of personal rules, distinguishing social, moral, and legal rules across the normative mind, focusing on social rules within institutions, conceived as sets of rules in equilibrium. The core of this study puts to the test the taxonomy of personal (social, moral, and legal) rules within the normative mind by exploring a situation of "dense normativity" addressed by a 2021 Lancet paper concerning findings about "tight–loose cultures" during the Covid-19 crisis, and, for the sake of explanation, focuses on one of the main normative constraints that epitomizes the challenge of the Covid-19 crisis to "tight–loose" cultures: the "wear-mask rule". These observations can be extended to other normative constraints of that crisis, but in essence they parse the interplay between the different types of personal rules, which not only are social, but also moral and legal, drawing conclusions that complement the findings of the Lancet paper with some critical observations. The article critically concludes with remarks about the co-existence of different normative systems of personal rules in a context of biopolitics and suggests that individual morality appears to be the core of normativity to address collective threats such as those caused by the Covid-19 crisis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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40. The Other Body in us: Pregnancy, Abortion, and Creativity in Chinese Women's Writing.
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MING-BAO YUE
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CHINESE women authors ,ABORTION in literature ,FEMINISM in literature - Abstract
This paper examines three contemporary stories focusing on pregnancy and abortion, by contemporary Chinese women writers Zhong Ling (Taiwan), Tang Min (China), and Xi Xi (HK), in light of current feminist intervention into Michel Foucault's theory of biopolitics. In particular, the paper turns to Elizabeth Grosz' notion of corporal feminism and Julia Kristeva's conceptual explorations on her theory of the abject in order to propose a notion of female creativity that is grounded within women's bodily experiences and a notion of subjectivity that takes maternity as its epistemological model. The paper concludes with an extension of corporeal feminism to women's writing in the area of cultural translation as mastering what Mary Zournasi has called "the art of foreignness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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41. O DIREITO AO ESQUECIMENTO COMO FORMA DE BIOPODER.
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Miranda Jorge, Carlos Henrique, Aparecido Dias, Jefferson, and Heinrich Ferrer, Walkiria Martinez
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RECOLLECTION (Psychology) - Abstract
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42. Segmented prizing: biopolitical differentiation in education for sustainable development.
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Knutsson, Beniamin
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INDIVIDUALIZED instruction ,EDUCATIONAL planning ,STUDENT leadership - Abstract
Prizes and awards have received limited attention in scholarly research. The present paper engages with the prestigious UNESCO-Japan Prize on Education for Sustainable Development, which annually honours three outstanding projects related to education for sustainable development (ESD). Drawing on biopolitical theory, the paper explores what this prize can tell us about the global community's quest for sustainable development. While the award is global in scope and alludes to humanity's joint responsibility for the planet, the analysis shows that the winning organisations approach rich and poor populations around the world in entirely different ways; assigning to them different roles, responsibilities and lifestyles. ESD discourse thus displays a remarkable ability to accommodate the lifestyle divide that separates rich and poor; suggesting that inequality has become effectively normalised. Ultimately it is argued that differentiating practices in the global implementation of ESD constitutes an urgent area of further research for comparative and international education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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43. Becoming a Population: Seeing the State, Being Seen by the State, and the Politics of Eviction in Cape Town
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Levenson, Zachary
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- 2021
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44. Reframing female bodies in Sri Lankan cinema: 28 and Asandhimitta revisited.
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Warnapala, Kanchanakesi
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VIOLENCE in motion pictures ,FEMALES ,MASS surveillance ,VIOLENCE against women - Abstract
The paper provides a comparative reading of the female protagonists in two Sri Lankan films, focusing on how the female body becomes a contentious site of gendered violence, subject to state and male surveillance and containment. Through a close analysis of Prasanna Jayakody's 28 (2014) and Asoka Handagama's Asandhimitta (2019), this paper attempts to reveal how Sri Lankan cinema violently reconfigures the female body as a site of negotiation for articulation of victimhood and desire and becomes a potential space for the inscription of feminist issues. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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45. Regulating pests—material politics and calculation in integrated pest management.
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Wolff, Leon
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INTEGRATED pest control ,PEST control ,ENVIRONMENTAL security ,PESTS ,FOOD security ,BIOLOGICAL pest control - Abstract
This paper attempts to shed some light on current biopolitics of food and environmental security by analyzing the strategy of Integrated pest management (IPM). IPM is an ecological form of pest management that emerged in the United States in the 1950s in response to the pesticide crisis and now informs numerous pesticide legislations around the world. The paper analyzes IPM as a governmental hinge that aims to reconcile the conflicting goals of food security and environmental security. To this end, the paper makes three intertwined arguments. First, through an examination of scientific texts from the field of economic entomology, the paper shows how biological and chemical pest control methods are produced as two conflicting materialities that must be mediated. In a second step, the text shows how economically defined thresholds and cost-benefit analyzes are used to level the difference between these two materialities and make them commensurable. Finally, it elaborates how IPM aims primarily at transforming farmers' practices. The use of chemicals in agriculture is to be reduced by transforming farmers into calculating subjects. Overall, the article aims to show how IPM, as an important element of contemporary ecological governmentality, seeks to realize positive environmental effects in the quantitative medium of economics and science. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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46. When Biopolitics Turn Digital: Transparency, Corruption, and Erasures from the Infrastructure of Rationing in Delhi.
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Dandurand, Guillaume
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CORRUPTION ,ELECTRONIC records ,FOOD security ,ELECTRONIC authentication ,NATIONAL security ,ANALOG-to-digital converters - Abstract
Following the ratification of the National Food Security Act (NFSA) in 2013, the Indian state digitized its food rationing infrastructure, replacing paper‐based ration cards with digital rationing documents and other technologies of authentication. The shift from analog to digital documentary practices has rematerialized documents and devices to enable closer monitoring of the exchange of food entitlements in ration shops. Making biopolitics digital has enabled the state to exert greater control over rationing practices by rendering them more transparent. However, the state's obsession with preventing practices of corruption has hindered, rather than facilitated, access to entitlements for some rightful beneficiaries of the NFSA. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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47. 'We must urgently learn to live differently': the biopolitics of ESD for 2030.
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Bylund, Linus, Hellberg, Sofie, and Knutsson, Beniamin
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BIOPOLITICS (Philosophy) ,ENVIRONMENTAL education ,SUSTAINABLE development ,EDUCATION policy ,SOCIAL context - Abstract
Recently, the new global policy framework for implementing education for sustainable development (ESD) – ESD for 2030 – was launched officially. Drawing on Foucauldian theory, this paper explores biopolitical elements in ESD for 2030. The paper contributes to previous research on ESD policy by employing a biopolitical perspective, and by highlighting problematic aspects of the framework's will to include and to adapt to different contexts. The analysis brings attention to the framework's notions of life and to how different human populations are separated. Furthermore, the analysis of the framework demonstrates how notions of transformative pedagogy, community, and the individual, assume the functions of biopolitical techniques. The findings point to a biopolitical differentiation where rich and poor populations are assumed to need different educational interventions, adapted to their socio-economic contexts, in the global educational policy quest for sustainable development. Ultimately, we consider the potential of Foucauldian ethics as an affirmative alternative to the current mode of biopolitical differentiation in global ESD policy [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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48. Authority, Sensory Power and the Appification of Biocitizenship: From Tracking the Pandemic to Vaccine Passports.
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Alevizou, Giota and Murchison, Eve
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VACCINE passports ,COVID-19 pandemic ,PANDEMICS ,SOCIAL impact ,HUMAN body ,DIGITAL technology - Abstract
This paper examines how authority and governmentality were enacted through digital technologies during the COVID-19 pandemic. Through the proliferation of track and trace apps, as well as digital vaccine passports, the contemporary 'biocitizen' became someone who was at once participatory and sacrificial for the 'greater good'. Advancing a notion of sensory power (Isin and Ruppert, 2020) and app-enabled 'biopolitical authority' as a novel form of governmentality, this paper explores how the tracking and monitoring of individual bodies renders them 'sense-able beings' through the devices, apps, and platforms that they engage with. Drawing on a discourseoriented analysis of UK-based government visuals and news reports surrounding the promotion (and controversies) of tracking apps and vaccine passports, we demonstrate that partaking in society as a 'good' biocitizen meant allowing COVID-19 technologies to pre-empt and influence bodily movements on both a micro and macro scale. As such we argue that COVID-19 technologies, ranging from tracking apps to vaccine passports, became 'pre-emptive' technologies that codified human bodies and their infectious status through alerts and notifications, which in turn, validated and reified a sense of belonging as a good and healthy 'biocitizen'. This paper will unpack these themes to propose ways in which sensory power was deployed to organise and structure societies, first at a responsibilised individual level, and then as a societal collective, throughout the pandemic. In doing so, this paper seeks to address the varying forms of control that came out of the pandemic, as well as the social implications that they then had on biocitizenship and belonging. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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49. DYSTOPIA, UTOPIA, AND ANTHROPOLOGY ON THE CROSSROAD.
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Muhić, Maja
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SOCIETIES ,HUMAN life cycle ,ANTHROPOLOGY ,ETHNOLOGY ,SCIENCE fiction - Abstract
Krotz (2018) argues that the interest in different societies and therefore, the variety of forms of organizing human life are shared by, what seem to be distinctive forms of knowledge, anthropology and utopia. According to him, the category of alterity is what brings them closer and makes them complement each other. This paper looks into the similarities between the dystopian literary genre and cultural anthropology. It does so, by looking at some of the contemporary problems that cultural anthropology treatsand the themes of dystopian literature. The origins of the dystopian novel go back to around 1880s, marked by the strong intervention of sciences in human life. Most of these dystopian novels, talk about the perils of technology, technocracy and its controlling power. It is interesting to analyze then, that much of the contemporary problems that anthropology deals with in the 21st century, fall within the realm of dystopian literature. The rising trend of new dystopian novels can offer foundations for a vision, whereby dystopian literature can serve as a warehouse of topics from which social anthropology can borrow in its active engagement with contemporary global issues and the new human condition. Comparing the motives of dystopian literature, its questioning of the moral and human aspects of war, science, violence, technology, etc, with the most recent issues that contemporary cultural anthropology deals with will be the primary focus of this paper. The aim to show the strengths of this interdisciplinarity for a critical grasp of the contemporary human condition, underpins this work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
50. Violence as method: the “white replacement”, “white genocide”, and “Eurabia” conspiracy theories and the biopolitics of networked violence.
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Davis, Mark
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In this paper, I consider the “white replacement”, “white genocide”, and “Eurabia” conspiracy theories and the cycles of violence they have inspired, including mass murders in Norway, New Zealand, and the United States. Working from Foucault’s theories of biopolitics and “race struggle”, I investigate how these events enact a form of “networked violence” that combines offline and online actions to enact a distributed strategy of biopolitical control in an effort to discipline and control the bodies of people of colour, migrants, and in particular Muslims. Based in historical and ideological analysis of the three theories and their network logics, the paper aims to extend Foucault’s theories of “race struggle” and governmentality by demonstrating how right-wing extremist strategies of biopolitical control are now digitally networked and use online platforms to predicate and enact alternative systems of governmentality based in race. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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