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Uneven Geographies of COVID‐19 III: Social Geographies of a Syndemic

open access: yesGeography Compass, Volume 20, Issue 9, September 2026.
ABSTRACT In this final of a three‐part series of review articles on the uneven geographies of COVID‐19, we zoom in on the social geographies of COVID's pandemic phase. We discuss research findings from across the globe that offer insights into the ways in which this phase was experienced by different populations and in various socio‐spatial contexts ...
Jonathan Everts   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Alegal: Biopolitics and the Unintelligibility of Okinawan Life [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Okinawan life, at the crossroads of American militarism and Japanese capitalism, embodies a fundamental contradiction to the myth of the monoethnic state. Suspended in a state of exception, Okinawa has never been an official colony of the Japanese empire
Shimabuku, Annmaria M.
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The Kinetic Materialism of ‘Close Capitalism’: Exploiting and Shaping Health and Wellbeing

open access: yesGeography Compass, Volume 20, Issue 9, September 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper considers health geography's past engagements with capitalism and proposes a basis for future ones. Looking back, it notes a number of implicit, indirect and partial engagements in five core research pillars of the subdiscipline. Looking forward, it then makes a case for a more explicit, direct and full engagement with capitalism ...
Gavin J. Andrews, Cameron Duff
wiley   +1 more source

Posthumanism and Cybernetic Art: An Esthetic Exploration of Technology and Human Identity

open access: yesSociology Lens, Volume 39, Issue 3, Page 469-481, September 2026.
ABSTRACT Posthumanism is a contemporary intellectual movement that redefines the relationship between humans, technology, biology, and culture. While questioning the traditional humanist perspective that places humans at the center of the universe, it also examines the transformative effects of technology on human identity.
Evren Kavukcu
wiley   +1 more source

An Examination of Cultural Transformation in Türkiye After 1980 in the Context of “Neoliberal Governmentality”

open access: yesSociology Lens, Volume 39, Issue 3, Page 522-542, September 2026.
ABSTRACT The January 24 Decisions of 1980 and the subsequent Özal era marked a profound rupture, carrying Türkiye from an import substitution economy to an outward‐oriented, “free‐market” order. Drawing on Michel Foucault's concept of neoliberal governmentality, this study conducts a qualitative, interpretivist discourse analysis of Turgut Özal's ...
Muhammed Salim Danış
wiley   +1 more source

Breathing through the rage: Maternal refusal as ethnographic method

open access: yesMedical Anthropology Quarterly, Volume 40, Issue 3, September 2026.
Abstract This article theorizes maternal rage as an ethnographic method and affective archive, drawing on interviews with birthing people of color navigating medical neglect, obstetric violence, and postpartum abandonment. Rather than treating rage as an excess or failure of care, I frame it as a form of witnessing and refusal, a bodily record of harm ...
Lalaie Ameeriar
wiley   +1 more source

Beyond Biopolitics Essays on the Governance of Life and Death

open access: yes, 2011
Under the auspices of neoliberalism, technical systems of compliance and efficiency have come to underwrite the relations among the state, the economy, and a biopolitics of war, terror, and surveillance. In Beyond Biopolitics, prominent theorists seek to
Topal, Çağatay
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Biopolitical Strategies in Media Discourses: Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic in Russia, Germany, and France

open access: yesVestnik MGIMO-Universiteta
The objective of this study is to conduct a comparative analysis of how media outlets in Russia, France, and Germany reported on events during the COVID-19 pandemic.
N. K. Radina   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

(Im)possibility of Redress: Mega‐Infrastructures and the Voided Politics of Contestation

open access: yesTransactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 51, Issue 3, September 2026.
ABSTRACT Drawing on critical geography's recent engagement with negativity, this article intervenes in dominant relational approaches to infrastructure by examining the (im)possibility of redress under mega‐infrastructure development through a case study of the Lamu Port–South Sudan–Ethiopia Transport (LAPSSET) Corridor in coastal Kenya.
Gediminas Lesutis
wiley   +1 more source

Biopolitics

open access: yes, 2014
Biopolitics, as defined by Michel Foucault, is what makes life and its mechanisms enter the explicit calculations of government. As with other notions in the philosopher's work, biopolitics evokes a methodological turn to the archaeological or ...
Angela M. Filipe   +3 more
core   +1 more source

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