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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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Ecological Biopower, Environmental Violence Against Animals, and the "Greening" of the Factory Farm [PDF]
, 2012 The promulgation of pollution control regulations governing factory farms has led to a striking new way of representing and intervening in the bodies of farmed animals: the body is being represented as a source of pollution, and various technological ...
Jonathan L. Clark
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Sociology Lens, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article uses the case of living organ donation from daughters to mothers in Türkiye to examine how maternal subjectivities are constructed, enacted, and transformed within specific cultural contexts. In Türkiye, motherhood is both culturally idealized and politically reinforced as the moral core of womanhood.
Sezen Demirhan, İlknur Gürses Köse
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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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Cancer and Capitalism: Towards a Critical Sociological Agenda
Sociology Lens, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article considers the relationship between cancer and capitalism from the perspective of political economy. It argues that this perspective is crucial for producing a critical agenda in the sociological study of cancer, which has otherwise and traditionally neglected the question of capital as social totality.
Faisal Al‐Asaad
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Humans, Animals and Biopolitics: The More-than-Human Condition
Nordic 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
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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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Emotional Biosensing: Exploring Critical Alternatives [PDF]
, 2018 Emotional biosensing is rising in daily life: Data and categories claim to know how people feel and suggest what they should do about it, while CSCW explores new biosensing possibilities.
Chuang, John +4 more
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Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines the embodied and institutional forms of marginalization experienced by Mexican deportees in Tijuana. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in clinics and social service organizations, it explores how deportees are corporeally stigmatized, denied legal recognition, and pathologized as addicts in need of coercive ...
Carlos Martinez
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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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