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Biopolitics and/or biopower [PDF]

Filozofija i Društvo, 2008
The author of this article thematizes the meanings of life in political philosophy. There are two answers to the question concerning the legitimacy of life in the political philosophy.
Lošonc Alpar
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Contesting Genetic Knowledge-Practices in Livestock Breeding: Biopower, Biosocial Collectivities, and Heterogeneous Resistances [PDF]

, 2012
Cattle and sheep breeders in the UK and elsewhere increasingly draw on genetic techniques in order to make breeding decisions. Many breeders support such techniques, while others argue against them for a variety of reasons, including their preference for
Holloway, Lewis, Morris, Carol
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State Racism and the Paradox of Biopower

Foucault Studies, 2015
As it has often been emphasised, through the concept of biopower, Foucault attempts to move away from the problem of sovereign power. Yet, after exposing Foucault’s conceptualisation of biopower, in this article I argue that he cannot simply leave this ...
Elisa Fiaccadori
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The World is One Great Hospital

Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy, 2010
This article attempts to locate the origin of Foucault’s work on biopolitics and biopower in his writings on medicine and medicalization.  Though the concept of biopower is most closely associated with Foucault’ genealogy of the dispositif of sexuality ...
David-Olivier Gougelet
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Regimes of freshness

Medicine Anthropology Theory, 2020
Today, it seems that nearly every aspect of life is affected by cryogenic techniques: we cool our food, environments, drugs, organs, eggs, milk, semen, tissue, blood and much more.
Alexander Friedrich, Stefan Höhne
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Control over biopower in cognitive and surveillance capitalism [PDF]

Srpska Politička Misao, 2023
Biopower is a form of power that regulates social life from its interior, following it, interpreting it, absorbing it, and rearticulating it. Power can achieve an effective command over the entire life of the population only when it becomes an integral ...
Stanković-Pejnović Vesna
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Foucauldian Peacekeeping: On the Dispersion of Power and the Futility of Change [PDF]

, 2009
Foucault is widely known for the radical nature of his work, for his idiosyncratic approach to history, and for his reconfiguration of the concept of power. Curiously though, his conceptions of history and power might act to undermine their potential to
Allen, Ansgar
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The Weight Attached to Dieting: Health, Beauty and Morality in Sweden from the End of the Nineteenth Century to the Present Day [PDF]

Athens Journal of Health and Medical Sciences, 2019
Over the last hundred years a new ideal body norm has been established. We should be thin, or at least strive to be. Consequently, dieting has become a topical subject.
Pia Lundquist Wanneberg
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Commercial and Corporate Provision of Healthcare, Capitalism and the State. [PDF]

Sociol Health Illn
ABSTRACT This paper explores the role of the capitalist state in promoting the commercial and corporate provision of healthcare (CCPH). First, it reviews the breadth of CCPH in contemporary liberal democracies and identifies its strengths and weaknesses for the delivery of public health.
Fox NJ.
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Arguments for exception in US security discourse [PDF]

, 2017
In his influential State of Exception, Giorgio Agamben proposes that, even in apparently liberal western democracies, the state will routinely use the contingency of national emergency to suspend civil liberties and justify expansion of military and ...
Hunter, Duncan, MacDonald, Malcolm N
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