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Modelling Suicide‐Related Communication Dynamics: A Socio‐Cybernetic Framework for Governance

Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Suicide‐related phenomena (SPS) are often approached through individual‐level risk factors or moral framings, yet their population‐level dynamics depend critically on how ‘suicide’ becomes observable, circulates and is governed across functionally differentiated systems.
Enrique Fernández Vilas, Juan R. Coca
wiley   +1 more source

Divulging Biopower Through Dystopian Novels

Ars & Humanitas
In 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.
doaj   +1 more source

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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Injustice, relational violence, and the foster system

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Political theorists have not paid sustained attention to the foster system or treated it as a political institution. Despite this, scholars and social movement advocates have identified the system as a site of social and political injustice. This paper develops an account of racial, class, and relational injustice in the contemporary US foster
Emma Ebowe
wiley   +1 more source

Climate and air pollution impacts of generating biopower from forest management residues in California

Environmental Research Letters, 2023
California faces crisis conditions on its forested landscapes. A century of aggressive logging and fire suppression in combination with conditions exacerbated by climate change have created an ongoing ecological, economic, and public health emergency ...
Kevin R Fingerman, Jerome Qiriazi, Cassidy L Barrientos, Max Blasdel, Jeffrey M Comnick, Andrew R Harris, Carisse Geronimo, Chih-Wei Hsu, Jeffrey M Kane, Elaine Oneil, Sabrinna Rios-Romero, Luke W Rogers, Mark Severy, Micah C Wright   +13 more
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Toward a Politics of (In)Fertility: Reproductive Debility in Africa

American Anthropologist, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sub‐Saharan Africa has some of the highest estimated rates of infertility or involuntary childlessness in the world, leading epidemiologists to refer to parts of the region as the “infertility belt.” The medicalization of infertility and the situating of assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) as the treatment for infertility have siphoned ...
Tessa Moll
wiley   +1 more source

The Philosophical Debate and Convergence of Biopower Theory and Medicalization Theory

Yixue yu zhexue
Modern medical technology and its relationship with ordinary social individuals are primarily analyzed through theoretical frameworks including biopower theory, medical technology democracy theory, and medicalization theory.
Dongwei YUAN, Yuena CUI
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Between Care and Control: Age Assessments and the Regulation of Unaccompanied and Asylum‐Seeking Children

Child &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article offers a critical conceptual review of age assessments in England and examines their implications for unaccompanied asylum‐seeking children (UASC). Drawing on Foucault's theories of biopower and governmentality, age assessments are conceptualied as technologies of control that set the parameters for who is deemed ‘deserving’ of ...
Ama‐Rose Greaves
wiley   +1 more source

It Is Because of Our Society, but Inside the Child: Ambiguity in Dutch Youth Health Care Professionals' Understanding of Normalisation

Children &Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In response to the rising number of children in youth care in the Netherlands, the Dutch Youth Act calls for normalisation, de‐medicalisation and unburdening. The present study investigated the views of physicians and nurses working in youth healthcare on the concept of normalisation.
Eva L. van Dijk, Sanne te Meerman, Ernst D. Thoutenhoofd, Albert W. Wienen, Donald G. van Tol, Tessa Overmars‐Marx, Els Evenboer, Laura Batstra   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Menopause in the French Workplace: Embodiment, Regulation, and Digital Resistance

Gender, Work &Organization, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Menopause remains largely invisible in workplace discussions, despite its impact on women's wellbeing and careers. Shaped by norms that prioritize youth, bodily control, and constant productivity, menopause is often treated as a personal health issue rather than an organizational concern.
Lara Bertola, Belinda Steffan, Akanksha Jalan   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source