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Bedside Politics and Precarious Care: New Directions of Inquiry in Critical Nursing Studies. [PDF]

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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
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Life, Science, and Biopower

Science, Technology, & Human Values, 2009
This article critically engages with the influential theory of ‘‘molecularized biopower’’ and ‘‘politics of life’’ developed by Paul Rabinow and Nikolas Rose. Molecularization is assumed to signal the end of population-centred biopolitics and the disciplining of subjects as described by Foucault, and the rise of new forms of biosociality and ...
Raman, Sujatha, Tutton, Richard
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Eternal Life and Biopower [PDF]

open access: possibleCR: The New Centennial Review, 2010
Foucault introduced the concept of biopower to explain how something like "thanatopolitics," the mobilization of entire populations "for the purpose of wholesale slaughter in the name of life necessity,' * became the norm in the twentieth century (1990, 137).
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Biopower

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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Biopower and the Liberationist Romance

Hastings Center Report, 2010
Bioethics 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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HIV, Constructionism and Biopower

Distinktion: Journal of Social Theory, 2009
In recent years we have seen the emergence of a wide range of critical analyses of political and social practices conducted under the heading of ‘constructionism’. Drawing on Michel Foucault's historical work on sexuality and the formation of the sexed body, a branch of constructionist analysis has taken as its primary task to question the cultural ...
Peter Triantafillou, Naja Vucina
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From biopower to necroeconomies: Neoliberalism, biopower and death economies

Philosophy & Social Criticism, 2018
The deaths of millions from war, genocide, poverty and famine are symptomatic of a crisis that extends beyond site-specific failures of governance, culture or economies. Rather than reiterate standard critiques of capitalism, uneven development and inequality, this article probes and maps a shift in both the global economy and logic of capital that ...
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Biopower and International Relations

2017
Michel Foucault’s critical approach to understanding power has become very influential in the study of global politics, especially in the work of (critical) IR scholars. The Foucauldian kind of power conception has influenced some IR scholars who adopt key insights from post-structuralist theory to world politics, thus producing an analytical ...
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Foucault on methadone: Beyond biopower

International Journal of Drug Policy, 2009
This 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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