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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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Fight the biopower! Mixed martial arts as resistance
International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 2021 Globally, mixed martial arts has seen a staggering level of growth in participation and fandom over the past 20 years. This paper presents the results from an immersive participant ethnography of an urban mixed martial arts gym in England’s North West ...
J. Sugden
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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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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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Energies, 2022 Despite the rapid development of electric vehicles, the shrinking number of fossil fuels that are the source of electricity remains conventional. The availability of energy sources and technology is sometimes naturally limited, high-priced, and might be ...
T. A. Rizal +6 more
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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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Medical Humanities, 2022 During the COVID-19 pandemic, restrictions for visitors and caregivers in healthcare settings and long-term care (LTC) facilities were enacted in the larger context of public health policies that included physical distancing and shelter-in-place orders ...
J. Rangel +3 more
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Disability Studies Quarterly, 2023 This article offers an alternative genealogy for disability accounts of normalcy by analyzing American poet Thylias Moss’s 2004 neo-slave narrative in verse, Slave Moth.
Sarah L. Orsak
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Uncovering the influence of community nursing on health promotion in China: A biopower analysis.
Social Science & Medicine (1967)The importance of community nursing in health promotion is increasingly acknowledged, yet limited research has explored how it shapes this domain through power dynamics. This article examines the role of community nursing in health promotion within China'
Bo Li
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Racial states - gendered nations: On biopower, race, and sex [PDF]
, 2020 This chapter critically engages with Michel Foucault’s biopower analytic as an apt conceptual framework to account for the endurance of race and racism and their functioning within modern states.
Solomos, J. +2 more
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