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‘We lived upon jagged teeth in the dark’: The Housing Estate in Guy Gunaratne’s In Our Mad and Furious City and Nikesh Shukla’s Run, Riot

Études Britanniques Contemporaines, 2022
This article examines the representation of the council estate in Guy Gunaratne’s In Our Mad and Furious City (2018) and Nikesh Shukla’s Run, Riot (2018) using a geocritical lens.
Rebecca Blanchard
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Introduction

Études Britanniques Contemporaines, 2017
This introduction traces back the conditions of emergence of the concept of bare life, from Foucault, though Agamben to more contemporary followers like De Boever and Lemke.
Jean-Michel Ganteau, Christine Reynier
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Kolbari and Its Identity Implications: Thematic Analysis of the Narrative of Kolbars in Baneh [PDF]

Strategic Research on Social Problems, 2023
IntroductionBaneh, located in Iranian Kurdistan, is a mountainous city situated near the border. Due to its distance from the city center and chronic underdevelopment, the border has emerged as a sustainable livelihood option for the region.
Omid Ghaderzadeh, Adill Rasooli
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Mazanet's 1693 "Report to the Viceroy:" The Role of Alterity, Bare Life, and Agency in the Attitude of a Spanish Friar against Texas Amerindians

The Coastal Review, 2018
This study evaluates Spanish missionary Damián Mazanet’s beliefs and attitudes about the Texas Indians expressed in a 1693 letter. In order to control the Amerindians, Mazanet represents them as beings with bare life, which gives him permission to ...
Pedro Cebollero
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The Secret Agency of Dispossession

Études Britanniques Contemporaines, 2017
What happens if the homo sacer kills before he can be killed? What if the dispossessed repossess what was taken from them? What if some agent declares a state of exception to the state of exception?
Stephen Ross
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Paclitaxel-eluting stents versus bare-metal stents in acute myocardial infarction. [PDF]

, 2009
BACKGROUND: There is no consensus regarding the safety and efficacy of drug-eluting stents, as compared with bare-metal stents, in patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction who are undergoing primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI)
Brodie, Bruce R., Wong, S Chiu, Peruga, Jan Z., Parise, Helen, Möckel, Martin, Stone, Gregg W., Pocock, Stuart J, Witzenbichler, Bernhard, HORIZONS-AMI Trial Investigators, Stone, Gregg W, Dudek, Dariusz, Kellock, Alison, Gersh, Bernard J, Peruga, Jan Z, Lansky, Alexandra J, Ochala, Andrzej, Guagliumi, Giulio, Brodie, Bruce R, Lansky, Alexandra J., Pocock, Stuart J., Dangas, George, Gersh, Bernard J., Mehran, Roxana, Wong, S. Chiu   +23 more
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‘The Barest of Lives: Looking at War from the Heart of Things in Harry Parker’s Anatomy of a Soldier (2016)’

Études Britanniques Contemporaines, 2017
At a time when the physical reality of bodies at war has become both omnipresent and increasingly mediated, Harry Parker’s debut novel Anatomy of a Soldier (Faber and Faber, 2016) chooses to displace the narrative logic of war and to reveal its organic ...
Catherine Bernard
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Health States of Exception: unsafe non-care and the (inadvertent) production of 'bare life' in complex care transitions.

Sociology of Health and Illness, 2019
This paper draws on the work of Giorgio Agamben to understand how the social organisation of care transitions can reduce people to their 'bare' life thereby making harmful and degrading treatment seemingly legitimate.
J. Waring, Simon Bishop
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‘A compound fenced off from the rest of the world’: Motherhood as the Stripping of One’s Self in Rachel Cusk’s A Life’s Work: On Becoming a Mother.

Études Britanniques Contemporaines, 2017
Society and the media would have us believe that giving birth to a child and the first months of motherhood are the happiest moments in a woman’s life.
Alice Braun
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Biopolitical Nomos and “Bare Life” in Arundhati Roy’s Novels

Crossroads, 2021
Biopolitics—the maneuvers and stratagems employed to regulate, manage and govern people—is one of the most contested theoretical paradigms, which deals with the relation between state politics and human lives. While Foucault links the biopolitical nomos
Khandakar Ashraful Islam
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