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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]

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
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Biopower, food and space

open access: yes, 2015
This paper schematically considers the exercise of biopower in the regulation of food and drink, tracing the spatiality of biopower and biopolitics as they play out in the trajectory of regulation of two key types of beverage: alcoholic beverages and fluid milk.
openaire   +1 more source

Intersex and Healthcare: A Narrative Review of Social Sciences Perspectives

open access: yesScience & Philosophy
Intersex individuals—those whose physical sex characteristics do not align with conventional male or female categories—encounter considerable challenges within healthcare systems, which often medicalize their bodies through invasive treatments aimed at ...
Davide Costa
doaj   +1 more source

A Foucauldian Theory of American Islamophobia [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Journal of Islamic Thought, 2016
With the emergence of ISIS andAmerican public furor over allowing Syrian refugees safe haven, Muslim Americans find themselves once again in the cross-hairs of a nation obsessed with searching for answers and someone to blame.
SHYAM K. SRIRAM
doaj  

The Disaster Empire in The Wandering Earth 2

open access: yesHumanities
This paper analyzes how the 2023 Chinese science fiction blockbuster The Wandering Earth 2 constructs what I call a “disaster empire”—a biopolitical system that seamlessly integrates authoritarian governance with capitalist logic through the constant ...
Ping Zhu
doaj   +1 more source

Blood driven biopower cells: Acquiring energy from reverse electrodialysis using sodium concentrations from the flow of human blood

open access: hybrid, 2021
Efecan Pakkaner   +4 more
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