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Toward a Politics of (In)Fertility: Reproductive Debility in Africa
American Anthropologist, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Sub‐Saharan Africa has some of the highest estimated rates of infertility or involuntary childlessness in the world, leading epidemiologists to refer to parts of the region as the “infertility belt.” The medicalization of infertility and the situating of assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) as the treatment for infertility have siphoned ...
Tessa Moll
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On Life, Bodies and Matter – (e Limits of Bio- politics. Introduction
Praktyka Teoretyczna, 2011 Qe primary aim of this paper is to analysethe limits of biopolitics (both in the strict, spatial-material sense and from the historical point of view).Qe discussion will focus only on the conditions ofgiving an answear to the title question and on ...
Mateusz Falkowski
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Tracing Digital Foodwork in the Transnational Family Across Southeast Asia
Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.ABSTRACT While increasing scholarly interest in ‘digital foodscapes’ has highlighted the politics of food‐based capitalism and the digitalisation of food in urban contexts, less attention has been paid to the everyday digital practices around foodwork in transnational households connecting migrants and their left‐behind families. The failure to account
Kristel Acedera +2 more
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Reproductive Injustice: The Sexual and Reproductive Health of Refugees in Switzerland
Birth, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objective This study applied the reproductive justice framework to analyze refugee women's access to sexual and reproductive healthcare, specifically their access to contraception in Switzerland and their experiences of parenthood. Design Based on 14 semi‐structured interviews, this qualitative study used a participatory approach.
Milena Wegelin +10 more
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The Human Difference: Beyond Nomotropism
Eidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture, 2017 The main theme of this essay is f i n i t e l i f e, which is the bedrock of modern biopolitics. In the series of lectures devoted to the ‘birth of biopolitics,’ Michel Foucault defines it as a new system of ‘governing the living’ based on the natural ...
Agata Bielik-Robson
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Child &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
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Gender, Work &Organization, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Managing the work‐fertility interface is a major challenge for organizations when implementing fertility policies. These policies cover a broad spectrum of areas including clinical treatments, preservation and storage of eggs and sperm, preimplantation and diagnostics, and non‐clinical family‐building assistance. They also differ from standard
Clíodhna MacKenzie +2 more
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Die rassistische Utopie der Biopolitik - Rütger Esséns De släckta metropolerna
NORDEUROPAforum - 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
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The problem of “harm” in the theory of international relations
Vestnik 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
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The Legal Status of Conjoined Twins in Islamic Law: A Socio‐Legal Analysis
Sociology Lens, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Conjoined twins are a rare congenital anomaly. Conjoined twins can occur in various morphological types. Conjoined twins are perceived not only as a physical difference but also as a subject of interest and curiosity in many areas of society.
Merve Yiğitoğlu
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