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Self-tracking modes: reflexive self-monitoring and data practices [PDF]
, 2014 The concept of ‘self-tracking’ (also referred to as life-logging, the quantified self, personal analytics and personal informatics) has recently begun to emerge in discussions of ways in which people can voluntarily monitor and record specific features ...
Deborah Lupton
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Refusal and Aporia: At the Limits of Anthropological Knowledge
American Anthropologist, EarlyView.ABSTRACT As anthropologists increasingly take up refusal, opacity, and other forms of resistance to surveillance and subjugation, this paper questions what implications this has for the discipline in practice. Considering anthropology's enduring centrality in defining what it means to be human, including the various ways that this category has been ...
Cory‐Alice André‐Johnson
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The bare life and (the) modern law : a journey to some key concepts or conceptions of Agamben [PDF]
, 2012 This text is imitating a journey which tries to explore what is completely unknown. It starts Homo Sacer and traces some key concepts namely der Muselmann, bare life, state of exception, sovereignty and nihilism in law.
Türkbağ, Ahmet Ulvi
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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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Anthropology 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
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, 2015 AbstractThis chapter discusses the scholarly treatment of the term biopolitics from the mid-1970s to the present, and it describes how feminist theorists have influenced and also departed from this treatment. In the process, it addresses two questions.
Takács, Ádám, Losoncz, Márk
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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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The Child to Come: Life After the Human Catastrophe by Rebekah Sheldon [PDF]
, 2017 Review of Rebekah Sheldon\u27s The Child to Come: Life after the Human ...
Tebokkel, Nathan
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Designed to fail : a biopolitics of British Citizenship. [PDF]
, 2004 Tracing a route through the recent 'ugly history' of British citizenship, this article advances two central claims. Firstly, British citizenship has been designed to fail specific groups and populations.
Imogen Tyler +15 more
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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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