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A Genealogical Analysis of the Medical Model of Problem Gambling
Critical Gambling Studies, 2021 By applying Foucault’s genealogical approach, this article understands the ascension of the medical model of problem gambling as a happenstance and contingent effect of a new form of social control (biopower).
Sean Wilcox
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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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The contested aesthetics of farmed animals : visual and genetic views of the body [PDF]
, 2015 Farmed animals have long been the subject of aesthetic appreciation. They are valued for their particular contribution to the aesthetics of agricultural landscapes and can act as important visual signifiers of geographical locality (Evans and Yarwood ...
Holloway, Lewis, Morris, Carol
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Applications of Biopower to NGO-Donor Partnerships for HIV Prevention in Jordan
The Journal for Undergraduate Ethnography, 2021 NGOs serving marginalized groups in the developing world often lie under heavy donor influence, so they must toe the line between compliance with and resistance against their funders to best promote the well-being of their beneficiaries. Jordanian health
Zachary Gallin
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The Catastrophe of Images [PDF]
, 2016 A review of:Allen MeekBiopolitical Media: Catastrophe, Immunity and Bare LifeRoutledge, Abingdon, 2016ISBN 9781138887060 RRP £90.00 ...
Randell-Moon, Holly
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Coshaping Digital and Biological Animals
Humanimalia, 2015 This paper considers how video games featuring animals as biological resources are simulating the types of “messy coshapings” that Donna Haraway values in companion species relationships, despite relocating these coshapings to a digital environment. The
Stina Attebery
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Political ecologies of biopower: diversity, debates, and new frontiers of inquiry
Journal of Political Ecology, 2018 This article reviews recent literature on the political ecologies of conservation and environmental change mitigation, highlighting the biopolitical stakes of many writings in this field.
Connor J Cavanagh
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Biofuels, Bioproducts and Biorefining, EarlyView.Abstract The premise of a bioeconomy is the replacement of nonrenewable and unsustainable fossil‐derived resources and associated technologies with more sustainable alternatives. The adoption of biobased chemicals contributes toward the growth of a bioeconomy and is dependent on market and industry requirements.
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Divulging Biopower Through Dystopian Novels
Ars & HumanitasIn a world where survival is dictated by those in power, control extends beyond politics to the very essence of life itself. This study analyses The Maze Runner and The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes through the lens of biopower, a concept introduced by
Esme Robina R., Keerthana M.
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Culture and carelessness: Constituting disability in South India [PDF]
, 2012 This is the author's accepted manuscript. The final published article is available from the link below.Professional and lay explanations of disability, collected via interviews and participant-observation during fieldwork in Hyderabad, South India ...
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