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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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Ambiguous Bodies, Biopower and the Ideologies of Science Fiction [PDF]
, 2016 Contemporary Hollywood film narrates the fear of monstrous science; attending to the modulations of medicine, capital and the body. The filmic body is employed to illustrate the power of the new biotechnologies to create and sustain life and the new ...
Flynn, Susan
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“A minimum of domination”—the overt normative orientation of Foucault's work
European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.Abstract Answering the charge of ‘crypto‐normativity’ that has long overshadowed Michel Foucault's work, I argue that this work is animated by an overt normative orientation to keep domination to a minimum. This orientation operates both at the level of content and form.
Fabian Freyenhagen
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Body of suffering: philosophic-anthropological interpretation
Бюллетень сибирской медицины, 2006 The author’s concept of anthropology of suffering and embodiment of biopower is discussed in the context of bioethical prob- lems. Basic prerequisites for division of human totality into soul (selfhood) and body are described with reference to ...
P. D. Tischenko
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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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Le biopouvoir chez Foucault et Agamben
Methodos, 2004 According to Foucault, a transformation in the way of exerting power can be discerned from the 18th century onwards, as life becomes a topic of concern for power itself.
Katia Genel
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The 2002 Farm Bill: Revitalizing the Farm Economy Through Renewable Energy Development [PDF]
, 2001 2002 Policy Report.Reduced profit margins and low commodity prices have forced many to leave farming in the past decade, or rely increasingly on off-farm income, while more attractive opportunities in less volatile industries have deterred many young ...
Carol Werner, Jeremy Ames
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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.
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Bibliopolitics: The History of Notation and the Birth of the Citational Academic Subject
Foucault Studies, 2018 The paper builds upon a growing body of critical research on the proliferating use of bibliometrics as a means to evaluate academic research, but brings to it a specifically Foucauldian, genealogical approach. The paper has three parts.
Matthew Sharpe, Kirk Turner
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Ecological Biopower, Environmental Violence Against Animals, and the "Greening" of the Factory Farm [PDF]
, 2012 The promulgation of pollution control regulations governing factory farms has led to a striking new way of representing and intervening in the bodies of farmed animals: the body is being represented as a source of pollution, and various technological ...
Jonathan L. Clark
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