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Demographic aging and biopower

Journal of Aging Studies, 2019
The 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
Enguerran, Macia, Dominique, Chevé, Joann M, Montepare   +2 more
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Biopower

Journal of Chemical Education, 1983
© 1983 American Chemical Society.
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On track to biopower? Toward a conceptual framework for user compliance in digital self-tracking

The Information Society, 2022
Digital self-tracking technologies, such as mobile applications and wearables have become commonplace, mediating users’ fitness and health management efforts by providing performance recommendations.
K. Reiby, Alexander Buhmann, Christian Fieseler   +2 more
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Human–technology entanglement in digital-human themed talent shows programmes: multi-interactivity of biopower in Alter Ego

Information, Communication & Society
This study explores the integration of digital-humans in the talent show Alter Ego and its ramifications. It aims to examine how, and to what extent, biopower is exercised by performers and manifested among judges, hosts, contestants, and audiences ...
Yupei Zhao, Wanyan Wu, Hong Zhang
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Modern Life-Building as a Biopower Strategy: Developing Sports Spaces in Urban, Rural and Industrial Areas in Turkey

International Journal of the History of Sport
In the early Republican period of Turkey (1923–1945), the newly established state provided a biopolitical agenda for developing modern and secular life in order to break the Ottoman heritage religious-traditional social structure.
H. Doğan
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In the Time of Pandemic, the Deep Structure of Biopower Is Laid Bare

Critical Inquiry, 2021
:The pandemic revealed the workings of biopower in relation to people with disabilities. In focusing on lives worth living, decisions were made based on metrics about the quality of life of various groups.
L. Davis
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Of vaccines, biopower, subjects and governmentality: an ethnographic enquiry into the Zimbabwean Covid-19 vaccination drive

Anthropology Southern Africa
The article highlights the politics of the Covid-19 vaccination drive in Zimbabwe. It interrogates questions of individual agency and institutional power in the administration of the vaccine. It is framed within Foucauldian scholarship, particularly that
Talent Moyo
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"Gummy Bears" and "Teddy Grahams": Ultrasounds as religious biopower in Crisis Pregnancy Centers.

Social Science & Medicine (1967), 2021
Scholars, activists, and medical professionals critique Crisis Pregnancy Centers (CPCs) for disseminating medical misinformation and deceptive counseling practices.
K. Hutchens
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Measuring non-Han bodies: Anthropometry, colonialism, and biopower in China's south-western borderland in the 1930s and 1940s

History of the Human Sciences, 2021
This article examines the biopower of non-Han bodies by considering the intersections of anthropology, racial science, and colonial regimes. During the 1930s and 1940s, when extensive anthropometric research was being undertaken on non-Han populations in
Jing Zhu
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Eating at school: on children, biopower and care in Turin, Italy

Children's Geographies, 2021
Food concerns practices with material and discursive effects on bodies, involving, at the same time, relations of power and care. The international debate has widely analysed food in terms of biopolitical technologies and ethics of care, paying ...
Alessia Toldo
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