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The Legacies of Lockdown: Moral Logics of Exchange and Mistrust in Postpandemic China

Economic Anthropology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT When Shanghai entered an extended lockdown under China's Zero‐COVID policy in spring 2022, residents found themselves confined within their residential compounds, cut off from conventional supply chains, and dependent on improvised systems of local provisioning and state rationing. From the perspective of economic anthropology, such conditions
Erika Kuever
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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
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Biopower, heterogeneous biosocial collectivities and domestic livestock breeding [PDF]

, 2017
This chapter explores Foucault’s concept of biopower and its focus on the regulation and fostering of life. It examines the analytical potential of Foucault’s anthropocentric conceptualisation in examples involving nonhuman animals.
Holloway, Lewis, Morris, Carol
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Impact of biopower generation on eastern US forests

, 2022
International audienceAbstract Biopower, electricity generated from biomass, is a major source of renewable energy in the US. About ten percent of US non-hydro renewable electricity in 2020 was generated from biomass.
Aguilar, Francisco, Mirzaee, Ashkan, Schliep, Erin, Mcgarvey, Ronald, Schliep, Erin M.,, Mirzaee, Ashkan,, Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet., Aguilar Cabezas, Francisco X,, McGarvey, Ronald G.,, Aguilar, Francisco X,, Ashkan Mirzaee, Ronald G. McGarvey, Erin M. Schliep, Francisco X. Aguilar   +13 more
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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.
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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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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
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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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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

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
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