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2021
Abstract Virginia Woolf lived and worked during the ascendancy of Euro-American biopower. This essay takes up the tools of queer, crip, and antiracist theories to analyse Woolf’s engagement with three strands of biopower—state racism, heteronormativity, and ableist normativity—as well as a fourth Woolfian form elaborated upon in Three ...
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Abstract Virginia Woolf lived and worked during the ascendancy of Euro-American biopower. This essay takes up the tools of queer, crip, and antiracist theories to analyse Woolf’s engagement with three strands of biopower—state racism, heteronormativity, and ableist normativity—as well as a fourth Woolfian form elaborated upon in Three ...
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Demographic aging and biopower
Journal of Aging Studies, 2019The aging of the world's population is an unprecedented recent phenomenon in human history, as for millennia - at least from the Neolithic to the mid-18th century - the age structures of human populations have changed little. The question posed by this anthropological perspective seems at first sight quite simple: how did this aging come to be? We will
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Journal of Chemical Education, 1983
The remarkable capacity of the mitochondrial electron transfer chain for generating metabolic power is compared to an electrical circuit. ; © 1983 American Chemical Society.
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The remarkable capacity of the mitochondrial electron transfer chain for generating metabolic power is compared to an electrical circuit. ; © 1983 American Chemical Society.
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Biopower and the Liberationist Romance
Hastings Center Report, 2010Bioethics lives in the shadow of great structures and practices of power, and yet, it has not been notable for its contributions to an understanding of power. (1) Indeed, the narrative that bioethics has fashioned for itself has been mainly a liberationist romance: a quest narrative in which the individual, seeking autonomy, struggles against ...
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Journal of Vietnamese Studies, 2023
This article examines the shifting biopolitical significance of poverty in Vietnam’s post-reform period, drawing on ethnographic interviews with poor Hanoians. Concomitant with the political economic and sociocultural shifts of market transition, public accounts of poverty’s nature and causes have transformed.
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This article examines the shifting biopolitical significance of poverty in Vietnam’s post-reform period, drawing on ethnographic interviews with poor Hanoians. Concomitant with the political economic and sociocultural shifts of market transition, public accounts of poverty’s nature and causes have transformed.
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Michel Foucault introduced the concepts of biopower and biopolitics to avoid the shortcomings of a hegemonic concept of power in political theory, which defines power in terms of sovereignty and the state and does not account for how power functions outside the state in institutions like the family, physician–patient relationships, or in the workplace.
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Philosophy Today, 2016
The modern Greek word for "monster" is "τ?ρας," a word which, according to J. B. Hofmann's Etymological Dictionary of Ancient Greek, in ancient Greek meant a "rare sign, an unusual natural phenomenon," including a "wonder" and "everything that functioned as a portent sign," an "inauspicious omen," not unlike the Latin "monstrum," which also meant an ...
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The modern Greek word for "monster" is "τ?ρας," a word which, according to J. B. Hofmann's Etymological Dictionary of Ancient Greek, in ancient Greek meant a "rare sign, an unusual natural phenomenon," including a "wonder" and "everything that functioned as a portent sign," an "inauspicious omen," not unlike the Latin "monstrum," which also meant an ...
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Foucault on methadone: Beyond biopower
International Journal of Drug Policy, 2009This essay reviews four texts which critically analyse methadone maintenance therapy using Foucault as a key theoretical framework: [Friedman, J., & Alicea, M. (2001). Surviving heroin: Interviews with women in methadone clinics. Florida: University Press of Florida], [Bourgois, P. (2000).
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TOPIA, 2011
At a zombie walk, participants dress up as zombies and parade through the city performing a spectacular representation of a “zombie apocalypse.” The popularity of these events has increased dramatically since the first recorded walk took place in Toronto in 2003.
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At a zombie walk, participants dress up as zombies and parade through the city performing a spectacular representation of a “zombie apocalypse.” The popularity of these events has increased dramatically since the first recorded walk took place in Toronto in 2003.
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