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AUGURAL TERRITORIES: On the Prophetic Organizing of the Mid‐range

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article I introduce the concept of augural territories to theorize the urbanism that emerged during pandemic lockdowns. I draw on ethnographic research in Madrid to examine how community‐based responses—including mutual aid networks, food pantries and neighbourhood associations—disrupted the spatial and temporal logics of territorial ...
Alberto Corsín Jiménez
wiley   +1 more source

The Biopolitics of Social Re_production. Feminist Foucauldian and Marxist Perspectives

open access: yesGenealogy+Critique
The paper develops a Feminist Foucauldian and Marxist theoretical framework of the biopolitics of social re_production. While Marxist feminism has long highlighted the role of re_productive labour in sustaining capitalism, feminist Foucauldian ...
Friederike Beier
doaj   +2 more sources

Biopolitics and/or biopower [PDF]

open access: yesFilozofija i Društvo, 2008
The author of this article thematizes the meanings of life in political philosophy. There are two answers to the question concerning the legitimacy of life in the political philosophy.
Lošonc Alpar
doaj   +1 more source

COMMON SENSE LAW: Making Right/s in the Liberal City

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article, co‐authored by encampment and university scholars, is concerned with how homeless persons challenge rightlessness. We do so by advancing a conceptual framework of common sense law, arguing that such contestations take place not only in courtrooms but also in the lived spaces of homelessness.
Ananya Roy   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Divenire penultimo. Per una biopolitica semiotica delle culture ultime = Become a penultimate. For a semiotic biopolitics of the last cultures

open access: yesH-ermes: Journal of Communication, 2018
Become a penultimate. For a semiotic biopolitics of the last cultures. In this paper I will try to build a Semiotic Biopolitics, in order to deal with the problem of cultural domination and integration. I will do that from the point of view of the theory
Claudio Paolucci
doaj   +1 more source

The Unbecoming Ghost: Spectropolitics in the Making and Unmaking of BHU's Bhoot Vidya Ayurveda Certificate Program

open access: yesAnthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This essay examines the controversy surrounding the Bhoot Vidya certificate program proposed by the Faculty of Ayurveda at Banaras Hindu University in 2019. Drawing on media coverage, curricular materials, and government policy, I analyze how the debate reveals broader tensions in the politics of contemporary Ayurveda, nationalism, and ...
Thomas Seibel
wiley   +1 more source

Genealogy of Biopolitics: The Biology of the State

open access: yesPraktyka Teoretyczna, 2013
The aim of the paper is to analyze a popular pseudo-scientific discoursein Germany in the twenties that developed an idea of a state as a living organism.The discourse was sometimes named “the biology of the state”.
Mikołaj Ratajczak
doaj   +1 more source

Between Care and Control: Age Assessments and the Regulation of Unaccompanied and Asylum‐Seeking Children

open access: yesChild &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article offers a critical conceptual review of age assessments in England and examines their implications for unaccompanied asylum‐seeking children (UASC). Drawing on Foucault's theories of biopower and governmentality, age assessments are conceptualied as technologies of control that set the parameters for who is deemed ‘deserving’ of ...
Ama‐Rose Greaves
wiley   +1 more source

The unrequited love of power: biopolitical investment and the refusal of care

open access: yesFoucault Studies, 2007
Despite its increasing prominence in critical political and IR theory, the significance of the Foucauldian problematic of biopolitics remains underestimated.
Sergei Prozorov
doaj   +1 more source

The Catastrophe of Images [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
A review of:Allen MeekBiopolitical Media: Catastrophe, Immunity and Bare LifeRoutledge, Abingdon, 2016ISBN 9781138887060 RRP £90.00 ...
Randell-Moon, Holly
core   +3 more sources

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