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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
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Is Biopower Carbon Neutral? [PDF]
, 2011 This report assesses the variables involved in determining whether or not biopower (i.e., electricity generated from biomass) is a carbon-neutral alternative to fossil fuels as a way to help meet meet U.S. energy demands and reduce U.S.
Bracmort, Kelsi
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Resistance to molecular biopower [PDF]
, 2020 En Towards a genealogy of pharmaceutical practice (Camargo y Ried, 2016), sostuvimos que la práctica farmacológica daba lugar a un nuevo tipo de biopoder (“biopoder molecular”), con tecnologías y racionalidades propias, que lo distinguían del biopoder ...
Camargo Brito, Ricardo +3 more
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Pensar, 2021 This article intends to examine, under the influx of technological advances, new forms of fake news, fake faces, and deepfakes that have been disseminated by social bots, among others, with the purpose to interfere in the electoral process.
Jefferson Aparecido Dias +2 more
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“Nowhere else to go”: Slow abandonment and (en)closures of long‐term care in Los Angeles
Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Residential long‐term care facilities, known in California as “board and care” homes, have been closing rapidly in the last decade. Proponents assert these provide vital forms of housing and care to the poor and must be saved, while critics contend they perpetuate the institutionalization of people with disabilities and should be abolished ...
Maxwell A. Hellmann
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Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract In this article, we conceptualize how Davis’ two concepts of uneven reproduction and obstetric racism—both rooted in the US context—are effectuated in the Netherlands. We consider uneven reproduction to consist of bio‐ and necropolitics, namely the management and regulation of a population's bodies, life and death.
Rodante van der Waal +3 more
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Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract This article explores how students experiencing mental unwellness negotiate psychiatric constructs of mental health to make their suffering morally legible within the North American University context. I argue while the psychiatric construct remains pervasive, students are ambivalent toward it as a metaphor for their distress.
Adrianna Nicole Wiley
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, 2000 Biomass is a proven option for electricity generation. A diverse range of biopower producers includes electric utilities, independent power producers, and the pulp and paper industry.
Shepherd, P.
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Science and power over life: science fiction and biotechnology in films
Intexto, 2012 This paper discusses the informational status related to a future projection about the future of biotechnology and the human body from the analysis of "Gattaca”.
Carmen Irene Oliveira +2 more
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Sociedade e Estado, 2006 Este artigo analisa discursos acerca do desenvolvimento rural e sua aproximação com um particular entendimento de exercício de poder, com base em entrevistas realizadas com agentes do denominado campo tecnocientífico vinculado às ciências agrárias no sul
Adriano Premebida, Jalcione Almeida
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