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Biopolitics & Zootechnics

open access: yesHistoria y Sociedad, 2013
This paper aims to study from the seventeenth century, in which way the constitution as objects of government of men and the species as "living beings” –what Michel Foucault calls "biopower"– provides the ability to transfer techniques and problems ...
Claude-Olivier Doron
doaj  

Epilogue: Towards an Abolitionist Camp Studies

open access: yesPopulation, Space and Place, Volume 32, Issue 2, March 2026.
ABSTRACT Camp studies have grown markedly in recent years. While the field has by and large been critical of camps as spatial technologies of protective custody, biopolitical control, minority oppression, racial segregation, custodial care, militarised rule and colonisation, there has been a reluctance to embrace more overtly abolitionist approaches ...
Hanno Brankamp
wiley   +1 more source

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

Refugee Camps as Contested Gendered Spaces: Afghan Women's Liminality, Inequality, and Agency in Germany

open access: yesPopulation, Space and Place, Volume 32, Issue 2, March 2026.
ABSTRACT This article examines how migrant women from Afghanistan who arrived in Germany in or after 2015—including asylum seekers, refugees, and those with rejected cases—experience and contest the everyday challenges within the liminal and precarious confines of camps and camp‐like structures, including asylum reception and collective accommodation ...
Sayed Mahdi Mosawi
wiley   +1 more source

For a critique of neoliberal green economy a foucauldian perspective on ecological crisis and biomimicry [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Este artículo pretende explorar cómo categorías foucaultianas como la biopolítica y la gubernamentalidad –tanto liberal como neoliberal– pueden arrojar nueva luz sobre las formaciones discursivas que en los últimos años han adquirido importancia, a saber,
Leonardi, Emanuele
core   +2 more sources

Hair as sensory skin: sensitive bodies, ritual shaving, and the maintenance of bodily boundaries in Hindu Suriname De la pilosité comme peau sensorielle : corps sensibles, rasage rituel et maintien des limites du corps chez les hindous du Surinam

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 32, Issue 1, Page 269-292, March 2026.
Hair is an integral part of the skin's interface and has sensory capacity. It actively contributes to processes of bodily materialization and facilitates transactional exchange with other social actors and environments, particularly regarding energies and vibrations that can be perceived as subtle matter.
Sinah Theres Kloß
wiley   +1 more source

On Medical Domination

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, Volume 77, Issue 2, Page 189-200, March 2026.
ABSTRACT In this article, I propose and define the concept of medical domination by combining insights from political sociology, Bourdieu's theory of domination, and intersectional perspectives. Drawing on a multi‐sited ethnographic study of abortion services in France, I analyse how a set of legitimised and institutionalised power practices shape ...
Raphaël Perrin
wiley   +1 more source

Pedagogies of Well‐Being: Disciplinary and Moral Concerns

open access: yesAnthropology &Education Quarterly, Volume 57, Issue 1, March 2026.
ABSTRACT Worldwide, emphasis on student well‐being and interventions like social emotional learning has necessitated investigations around its pedagogies. Taking the example of Happiness Class in India, I show that pedagogies of well‐being in this context are deeply intertwined with disciplinary and moral concerns.
Neha Miglani
wiley   +1 more source

Archiving Futurity Within the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women's Crisis

open access: yesAmerican Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 1, Page 85-96, March 2026.
ABSTRACT In this article, we examine how settler colonization and gendered violence against Indigenous women are remembered and recorded in two archival registers: 18th‐century records from the Massachusetts Archives Collection (MAC) and a 21st‐century corpus of posts using the hashtag MMIW (Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women) on X (formerly Twitter)
Lindsay Martel Montgomery   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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