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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

Die rassistische Utopie der Biopolitik - Rütger Esséns De släckta metropolerna

open access: yesNORDEUROPAforum - Zeitschrift für Kulturstudien, 2018
Biopolitics is a pillar of right-wing ideology. The family is seen as the people’s, i.e. the Volks core, and therefore the core of the nation which stands as the absolute principle of this ideology. Biopolitics is the means to protect the reproduction of
Julian Bruns
doaj  

The problem of “harm” in the theory of international relations

open access: yesVestnik MGIMO-Universiteta, 2019
The article provides an analytical review of the literature on the issue of harm in the theory of international relations, as a result of which this issue has been supplemented and expanded.
M. A. Gadzhiev
doaj   +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

Activist Media and Biopolitics

open access: yes, 2012
After tactical media became less important, many media activist projects repositioned themselves: in the context of biopolitics they challenge the hegemony of biopower.
Wolfgang Sützl, Theo Hug (dir.)
core  

Resilience: an all-encompassing solution to global problems? A biopolitical analysis of resilience in the policies of EC, FEMA, UNDP, USAID, WB, and WEF [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This thesis examines the use of resilience in international policy-making. A concept that originally meant an ability of ecosystems to absorb disturbance has not only been welcomed in many disciplines outside ecology, but lately become popular in the ...
Jakola, Iiris
core   +2 more sources

Humans, Animals and Biopolitics: The More-than-Human Condition

open access: yesNordic Journal of Science and Technology Studies, 2017
Edited by Kristin Asdal, Tone Druglitrö and Steve Hinchliffe (Routledge, 2017) Michel Foucault’s concept of biopolitics captures the way a decentralized form of governing measures and mobilizes life itself through a number of technologies, such as ...
David Redmalm
doaj   +1 more source

Straddling “The Gulf Between Medicine and Law”: Medico‐legal addiction and Japanese psychiatry

open access: yesMedical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Increasing punitive drug regulations in Japan amplify longstanding tensions within psychiatric practice, pushing psychiatrists to balance clinical obligations with complex socio‐legal demands. This article analyzes how psychiatrists specializing in illicit substance use disorders to navigate escalating criminalization by developing diagnostic ...
Selim Gokce Atici
wiley   +1 more source

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