The entanglement between the IUCN Red List and international biodiversity law
Conservation Biology, EarlyView.Abstract The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species (red list) is of fundamental importance for nature conservation and biodiversity protection. I considered the interaction between the red list and international biodiversity law (IBL), the legal regime that aims to protect biodiversity at a global level ...
Rens Claerhoudt
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Middlesex and the Biopolitics of Modernist Architecture [PDF]
, 2018 Highlighting the architecture of the Middlesex house of Eugenides’ novel as a major technology of modernity, Seymour argues for the biopolitical understanding of such modernist architecture and for the ways in which it often works against the ...
Seymour, Nicole
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Islam in China: Uyghurs in Crisis [PDF]
, 2020 Islam has been in China for hundreds of years and has been the religion to ten people groups in China, including the Uyghur people group. The Uyghurs have been under China’s domain since the mid-1700s and since then have stood out among the fifty-five ...
Baez, Isabella
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Predator empire: the geopolitics of U.S. drone warfare [PDF]
, 2013 This paper critically assesses the CIA’s drone program and proposes that the use of unmanned aerial vehicles is driving an increasingly paramilitarized U.S. national security strategy. The paper suggests that large-scale ground wars are being eclipsed by
Shaw, Ian G. R.
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Posthumanism and Cybernetic Art: An Esthetic Exploration of Technology and Human Identity
Sociology Lens, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Posthumanism is a contemporary intellectual movement that redefines the relationship between humans, technology, biology, and culture. While questioning the traditional humanist perspective that places humans at the center of the universe, it also examines the transformative effects of technology on human identity.
Evren Kavukcu
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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]
, 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
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The discursive construction of EU counter-terrorism policy: writing the ‘migrant other’, securitisation and control [PDF]
, 2009 This article argues that the EU counter-terrorism policy reflects a deep-rooted mistrust or fear of the ‘migrant other’. The first half of the article focuses on the discursive construction of terrorism and the concept of securitisation.
Baker-Beall, C
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Zoonotic anxieties: The cultural politics of Nepal's quest for pandemic preparedness
Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Based on fieldwork conducted in Nepal (2022–2024) and by paying attention to how local and transnational notions of epidemiological risk are deployed, this ethnography introduces the concept of “zoonotic anxieties” to make sense of the multi‐species relational ethos that contemporary global health regimes propose.
Max D. López Toledano +3 more
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Biopolitics, population and control
Educación Física y Ciencia, 2010 Studies on the power turned some time ago to biopolitics, seen as the interference of power and the politics in life. It is positive and negative. Hence the discussion about the social control as an expression of modern biopolitics.
José Luis Tejeda González
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A Santa with a Butt Plug:Paul McCarthy and the Obliterating Violence of Positivity [PDF]
, 2020 Kitsch is often seen as the denial of shit. Kitsch excludes from view everything that is unacceptable in human existence. In Paul McCarthy’s oeuvre, there is no such dichotomy.
Lushetich, Natasha
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