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Introduction: Sex and the (Motor) City: Ecologies of Middlesex [PDF]
This special cluster consists of twelve short essays, originally presented in two linked roundtables at the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) conference in Detroit in June 2017, examining Jeffrey Eugenides\u27 2002 Pulitzer ...
Blanchard, Kaitlin, Sandilands, Catriona
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Affective Infrastructure: Capitalism's Specters in the Ecovillage Findhorn Community
ABSTRACT The Ecovillage Findhorn Community (EFC) in Northeast Scotland seeks to live in harmony with nature. How the community has done this over its 60‐plus years has changed from social communalism, where residents lived in cheap caravans, to now mostly privately‐owned expensive ‘eco’ houses with green technology.
Kelsey D. Grubbs
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O presente artigo tem por objetivo compreender a influência da categoria biopolítica de Foucault nas estratégias científicas utilizadas para o controle da AIDS.
Leandro Castro Oltramari
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On colonial blind spots, ego-politics of knowledge and 'Universal Reason' [PDF]
This paper examines the notion of death as a philosophical and counter-hegemonic subject ‘erased’ from the imperialist cartography of knowledge. It revolves around three main points: the ‘loss’ of death from the imperialist epistemology of the global ...
Stamenkovic, Marko
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The “Pesticide Chip”: Chemical Legacies and Agrarian Futures in Costa Rica
Abstract For decades, agro‐industrial capital has adopted cascading chemical and biotechnical interventions, or fixes, to secure accumulation through the cultivation of monocrops. We develop a framework that centres on how monocrop‐induced susceptibility to pests and pathogens—and the patchwork of fixes to address these—produces uneven chemical ...
Soledad Castro‐Vargas, Marion Werner
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The genome incorporated: constructing biodigital identity [PDF]
The Genome Incorporated examines the proliferation of human genomics across contemporary media cultures. It explores questions about what it means for a technoscience to thoroughly saturate everyday life, and places the interrogation of the science/media
O'Riordan, Kate
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Abstract Following the lead of labour movements, this article frames slums as labour geographies whose evictions constitute the devaluation of labour in spatial terms. This devaluation occurs in two modes: in the first, through the rendering of workers as “encroachers” or “the urban poor” in policy documents and public discourse, thereby unmooring ...
Priti Narayan
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Managing Ambiguous Amphibians: Feral Cows, People, and Place in Ukraine’s Danube Delta [PDF]
This paper analyzes how a herd of feral cattle emerged in the core zone of Ukraine’s Danube Biosphere Reserve and why it still exists despite numerous challenges to the legality of its presence there.
Richardson, Tanya
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Abstract The paper examines the existing relationships between universities and Frontex, investigating and problematising the intersection between the higher education sector and the violence of the European border regime. We introduce the concept of positivist dissonance to conceptualise these relationships within the wider “industrial‐military ...
Giulia Corgnier +3 more
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Abstract This paper focuses on the everyday experiences of carcerality of a community, known as Kathputli Colony, that has been waiting to be rehoused by the state for over a decade in Delhi, India. We draw on Kathputli Colony's everyday experiences to argue that state‐led housing policies and practices produce carceral socio‐spatialities, rather than ...
Syeda Jenifa Zahan +1 more
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