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Conatus - Journal of Philosophy, 2019 The relationship between the British and Nazi eugenics movements has been underexamined, largely because of the more obvious ties between the American and Nazi programs and the lack of a state-sponsored program in Britain.
Amanda M. Caleb
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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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From biopower to affirmative biopolitics: A (bio)political ecology of becoming with wolves
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 50, Issue 3, September 2025.Abstract Effective, equitable and just strategies for multispecies coexistence are increasingly the focus of research and policy. The critical social sciences, such as political ecology, have been particularly interested in this topic recently, exploring the production of human–wildlife interactions and the resulting (uneven) outcomes for different ...
Valerio Donfrancesco, Chris Sandbrook
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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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The Biopower of Abundance: Towards Agroecological Worldings
Bulletin of Latin American Research, Volume 44, Issue 3, Page 263-273, July 2025.Abstract This article examines how grassroots agroecological practices, as carried out by small farmers and neorurals in the Cerro Manjui cloud forest of Colombia, hinge on a continuum that connects agricultural techniques, soil health, microorganismic life and forest ecosystems. Drawing on posthumanist scholarship on biopolitics and morphogenesis, the
Juan Camilo Cajigas
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A Path Forward for Low Carbon Power from Biomass
Energies, 2015 The two major pathways for energy utilization from biomass are conversion to a liquid fuel (i.e., biofuels) or conversion to electricity (i.e., biopower). In the United States (US), biomass policy has focused on biofuels.
Amanda D. Cuellar, Howard Herzog
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Foucault, Biopower & International Relations: A New Conceptualization of Global Biopower [PDF]
, 2021 <p>The purpose of this paper is, first and foremost, to accurately describe how biopower enters IR. It does this because so far IR theorists have inaccurately deployed the concept. Due to the tripartite nature of biopower – sovereign, disciplinary, biopolitical – and idiosyncratic conceptualizations of sovereignty by predominant theorists, a ...
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Biopolitical Education: The Edukators and the Politics of the Immanent Outside
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature, 2016 The article examines the relationship of biopower and cinema through the analysis of a specific film, Hans Weingartner’s The Edukators (2004). It argues that in the age of biopower, resistance to power cannot be conceived of in terms of a radical ...
Roland Vegso
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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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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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