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Impossible protest: noborders in Calais [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Since the closure of the Red Cross refugee reception centre in Sangatte, undocumented migrants in Calais hoping to cross the border to Britain have been forced to take refuge in a number of squatted migrant camps, locally known by all as ‘the jungles ...
Agamben G.   +28 more
core   +3 more sources

Breathing through the rage: Maternal refusal as ethnographic method

open access: yesMedical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
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

Multiple Frames: Remarks on the Framing of Borders and Migration

open access: yesOn_Culture
This _Essay attempts a preliminary framing of what we can understand by the work of ‘framing’ in the context of borders and migration and its inherent tensions.
Heidrun Friese
doaj   +1 more source

The Child to Come: Life After the Human Catastrophe by Rebekah Sheldon [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Review of Rebekah Sheldon\u27s The Child to Come: Life after the Human ...
Tebokkel, Nathan
core   +1 more source

A State of Crisis: Macrobiotic Theory and the Production of Fukushima [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
In the face of the disaster and devastation wrought by both the tsunami and nuclear reactor meltdown of March 11, 2011, everything from organizing to theorizing appears unable to go on as usual, encapsulated by the recurrence of the descriptor ‘shinsai ...
Hallingstad O'Brien, Dylan James
core  

Beyond safety net value(s): Tourist hotel rooms for people experiencing homelessness

open access: yesMedical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the shape of care and value through an ethnographic study of an intensive, temporary housing intervention for people experiencing homelessness in San Francisco, California, during the COVID‐19 pandemic. Building on a new anthropological theory of value, the results highlight the slipperiness between surveillance and care,
Naomi C. Schoenfeld
wiley   +1 more source

Obstetric racism in Europe: Linguistic racism, exoticization, and uneven reproduction in the Netherlands

open access: yesMedical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article, we conceptualize how Davis’ two concepts of uneven reproduction and obstetric racism—both rooted in the US context—are effectuated in the Netherlands. We consider uneven reproduction to consist of bio‐ and necropolitics, namely the management and regulation of a population's bodies, life and death.
Rodante van der Waal   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Biopolitical studies and research of biopolitics

open access: yesPhilosophy Journal, 2023
Within the academic environment, we find the using of the term of biopolitics difficult because of its rather ambiguous definition. As a result, we can see either its naturalistic interpretations in which biopolitics is the application of life sciences (ethology, physio­logy, genetics, sociobiology, cybernetics, bioelementology, etc.) in modern ...
openaire   +1 more source

Human security and the rise of the social [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
As the concept of human security has become part of the mainstream discourse of international politics it should be no surprise that both realist and critical approaches to international theory have found the agenda wanting.
Aisenberg   +94 more
core   +1 more source

Erased by law: Kinship, care, and bureaucratic exclusion at the end of life in South Korea

open access: yesMedical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines how institutional frameworks in South Korea erase nonlegal caregiving relationships within hospice care environments. Drawing on seven months of ethnographic fieldwork, the study delineates how patients are categorized as “unclaimed” despite the presence of long‐term companions or cohabitants who provide intimate end‐of ...
Seok Joo Youn
wiley   +1 more source

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