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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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Foucault, Biopower & International Relations: A New Conceptualization of Global Biopower
, 2013 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.
Kendrick, Jamie Brian William +1 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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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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Frischeregime: Biopolitik im Zeitalter der kryogenen Kultur.
Glocalism: Journal of Culture, Politics and Innovation, 2014 Feeding people means producing population. Biotechnology, encompassing food production as well as assisted reproductive technology (ART), currently emerges as a most important apparatus (dispositif) of governing populations.
Alexander Friedrich, Stefan Höhne
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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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Technique, medicalization and virtualization of the body
Trilogía Ciencia Tecnología Sociedad, 2010 This paper discusses on the technique as something unique to humans, as a first expressed memory, as a human millieu that serves as a determinant of the corporal confrontation of reality or “work”.
Jorge Márquez Valderrama
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Oscillating Whiteness: A Conceptual Framework for Analysing Transnational Ethno‐Racial Privilege
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article advances oscillating whiteness as a conceptual framework for analysing ethno‐racial privilege across geopolitical settings. The framework theorizes whiteness as a dynamic resource governed by four mechanisms: recognition (how bodies are classified as white), performativity (how whiteness is enacted through cultural scripts ...
Reza Hasmath
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Biopower and International Relations
, 2017 Michel Foucault’s critical approach to understanding power has become very influential in the study of global politics, especially in the work of (critical) IR scholars.
Angélica Guerra-Barón
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Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, EarlyView.This paper examines how the politics of water governance intersected with germ suppression during US colonial rule in the Philippines. Drawing on historical materials and policy documents, we critically trace two interrelated processes of hydroterritorialization through which cholera outbreaks in the early 1900s spurred the production of sanitary ...
Rhomir S. Yanquiling +2 more
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