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Contesting Genetic Knowledge-Practices in Livestock Breeding: Biopower, Biosocial Collectivities, and Heterogeneous Resistances [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Cattle and sheep breeders in the UK and elsewhere increasingly draw on genetic techniques in order to make breeding decisions. Many breeders support such techniques, while others argue against them for a variety of reasons, including their preference for
Holloway, Lewis, Morris, Carol
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Biopolitical subjectification

open access: yesSign Systems Studies, 2019
The article proposes a semiotic interpretation of the concept of biopolitics. Instead of a politics that takes “life itself ” as its object and, as a result, separates life as an object from subjects, biopolitics is read as subjectification – a ...
Ott Puumeister
doaj   +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
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Culture and carelessness: Constituting disability in South India [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
This is the author's accepted manuscript. The final published article is available from the link below.Professional and lay explanations of disability, collected via interviews and participant-observation during fieldwork in Hyderabad, South India ...
Allen   +37 more
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The Purview of the Particular: Power and Method in Foucaultian Genealogy

open access: yesConstellations, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT If Foucault was anything, he was a particularist. And yet, if we are to find valuable tools in his method today, they must be able to assist our framing and analysis of non‐particular issues. By what means can Foucault's methods grasp trans‐contextual problems?
Matt Kelley
wiley   +1 more source

The conceptual question among sovereignty, biopolitics and law: a sensible point between Foucault and Agamben [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
The concept of biopolitics has its origin on the Michel Foucault works developped since 1975 to 1979. In this period, the author introduced the foundations for a new approach about the modern government, based in both crescent enpowerment on individuals ...
Chaves, João
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South Asian Bodies at British Borders in the 1970s: From the Ugandan Asian ‘Stateless Husbands’ to ‘Virginity Testing’

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article looks at two critical moments in British immigration – the case of the ‘stateless’ Ugandan Asian husbands, whose wives successfully argued for their entry in Britain in 1973 and the ‘virginity test’ performed on Mrs K at Heathrow Airport in 1979.
Antara Datta, Jinal Parekh
wiley   +1 more source

Tendencies in the bioethics-biopolitics encounter: visualization in ibero-america indexed journals

open access: yesRevista Colombiana de Bioética, 2015
The biolaw studies, starting from Foucault, relate the administration of life and power relations. Therefore two concepts appear: biopolitics and biopower.
Laity Velásquez Fandiño
doaj   +1 more source

Biopolitical conservatism and “pastoral power”: a Russia – Georgia meeting point. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
The paper applies the concept of biopolitics to the analysis of Russia's relations with Georgia.
Makarychev, Andrey
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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
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