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From bare life and necropolitics to a feminist care ethic: ageism in the COVID-19 pandemic and future directions [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers in Sociology
This perspective paper begins with discussing how COVID-19 magnified the pre-pandemic ‘bare life’ conditions which exposed older people’s lives to risks and indignities in the health and social care system.
Bethany Simmonds
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Potentiality, Sovereignty and Bare Life A Critical Reading of Giorgio Agamben [PDF]

open access: greenIdeas y Valores, 2014
This article presents a critical account of Agamben’s understanding of the logic of sovereignty and of the notion bare life, particularly Agamben’s approach to the paradox of sovereignty and its relation to Aristotle’s metaphysical category of ...
German Eduardo Primera Villamizar
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The law of bare life

open access: diamondNorthern Ireland Legal Quarterly, 2021
2020 proved to be a remarkable year. Not the least remarkable was the realisation that, in a moment of perceived crisis, the instinctive response of the UK Government was to sweep away various so-called rights and liberties which might, in a calmer moment, have been presumed fundamental, and to rule by means of executive fiat.
I. M. Ward
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Experimental Norms: Power–Knowledge, Bare Life and Medical Trials

open access: diamondLaw, Technology and Humans, 2020
Humans experimenting on other humans sits precisely at the junction of law, technology and the humanities, synthesising descriptive, normative and creative elements in relation to reality.
Edwin Bikundo
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The Construction of the Other: (Re)producing Bare Life [PDF]

open access: diamondAM: Art + Media, 2017
This paper proposes a critical reading of the formation of the Other within capitalism and coloniality. Through an analysis of the master/slave relation, the master/slave dialectic and bare life/sovereignty, the research intends to prove that the ...
Sebastjan Leban
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Beckett and Bare Life: Post-war Political Subjectivity in Molloy [PDF]

open access: diamondEstudios Irlandeses, 2019
What can Beckett offer political theory concerned with subjecthood in the aftermath of the Nazi concentration camps? I suggest in this essay that Molloy provides a literary terrain through which to explore the collapse of the Enlightenment and the ...
John Parker Evans
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Failing to Protect Bare Life During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Forced Migrants as Carriers of the Virus

open access: diamondStudies in Social Justice
This study compares the restriction of mobility of forced migrants during the COVID-19 pandemic between March 2020 and December 2021 in the United States and Ecuador.
Claudia Donoso
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Narrative of Obsession: Manipulated Identities, Labyrinthine Emotions in Iris Murdoch’s A Word Child

open access: yesCritical Literary Studies, 2023
The theoretical discussion of the present paper is particularly based on the insights of Giorgio Agamben contextualized in Iris Murdoch’s novel, A Word Child (1975), written in the transitional period of the seventies England.
Nazila Herischian   +2 more
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Refugee agency through bare life? New forms of voice and strategies of imperceptibility at the European borders

open access: yesDeusto Journal of Human Rights, 2022
In the course of the comparatively high numbers of refugees arriving in Europe in 2015 and 2016, several practices of the European border regime became more restrictive.
Maria Ullrich
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