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Slow Death and Key Workers: The Ordinary Crisis of Waste Work During the COVID‐19 Pandemic
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 51, Issue 2, June 2026.Short Abstract This article examines the experiences of waste workers in Glasgow during the COVID‐19 pandemic to show how the everyday operations of the UK waste industry push bodies and infrastructures towards collapse. Drawing on interviews with waste workers, and Lauren Berlant's concepts of ‘slow death’ and the ‘crisis ordinary’, it argues that ...
Thom Davies +5 more
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Relaciones Internacionales, 2023 Reseña de: Agamben, G., ŽiŽek, S., Nancy, J.L., Berardi, F., López Petit, S., Butler, J., Badiou, A., Harvey, D., Han, B.C., Zibechi, R., Galindo, M., Gabriel, M., Yañez González, G., Manrique, P., Preciado, P.B. (2020). Sopa de Wuhan.
María Juarez Camacho
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The Political Economy of Emergency: Postcolonialism, Crisis Governance and Decolonial Alternatives
Journal of Law and Society, Volume 53, Issue S1, Page S73-S92, April 2026.Abstract The political rhetoric surrounding the Horn of Africa is perpetually framed through narratives of crisis, tragedy and emergency. These labels, rather than simply being used to describe instability, function as tools of governance to normalise dysfunction and entrench cycles of dependency.
HOPE JOHNSON
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Nietzsche y la historia. La infelicidad del animal y la esperanza del hombre
Ideas y Valores, 2014 La Segunda consideración intempestiva delimita una relación funcional con la historia: esta beneficia a la vida cuando se posiciona desde una perspectiva ilusoria, disimulada y estratégica.
Tuillang Yuing Alfaro +1 more
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Neo‐Slavery as Instrumentalization: Amazon, Surrogate Motherhood, and Mobile Phones
Sociology Lens, Volume 39, Issue 1, Page 97-105, March 2026.ABSTRACT Despite being perceived as a remnant of the past, slavery persists in today's increasingly economized and biopoliticized world. To thematize the actuality of slavery, we initially return to Aristotle's discussion/justification of slavery as instrumentalization of human beings. Then we revisit Plato's allegory of the cave through three distinct
Bülent Diken +2 more
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Recensione a G. Agamben, Il Regno e il Giardino
, 2020 Hoy, que no parece haber alternativa al Apocalipsis secularizado, cuando parece inevitable la catástrofe climática que está llevando adelante la extinción de millones de especies de vivientes y promete incluso la de la especie humana, quizás sea urgente poner en cuestión el mitologema que subyace a nuestro horizonte, aquel que señala que todo destino ...
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Understanding Public Sector Risk Management in Contexts of Hybridity: A Structured Literature Review
Financial Accountability &Management, Volume 42, Issue 1, Page 119-140, February 2026.ABSTRACT As risk management (RM) becomes more prevalent and public sector reforms increasingly blur the lines between the public and private spheres, understanding RM in these potentially hybridized settings becomes ever more critical. Building on the four dimensions of hybridity proposed by Denis et al.—namely, governance structures, agency and ...
Sarah Russo +3 more
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Camp Time: Heterochronies in ‘Other Spaces'
Population, Space and Place, Volume 32, Issue 1, January 2026.ABSTRACT Contemporary global apartheid is built upon temporal discord, with refugee camps playing a central role. Yet camp studies have largely neglected the temporal dimensions of displacement, leading to reductive notions of time in the camp as a paradox of permanent temporariness.
Melissa Gatter
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Recensione di G. Agamben, Il Regno e il Giardino
, 2020 In uno studio ormai classico, I fanatici dell’apocalisse, Norman Cohn ha scritto che «l’eresia del Libero Spirito ha […] diritto a un posto in ogni rassegna dell’escatologia rivoluzionaria; e ciò rimane vero anche se i suoi adepti non furono rivoluzionari sociali» (Milano 1965, p. 179). Un’affermazione a prima vista incongruente, ma che aiuta in realtà
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Antipode, Volume 58, Issue 1, January 2026.ABSTRACT This paper addresses stories of surveillance of Brazilian critical/radical geographers, drawing on innovative sources. That is, the folders and reports through which the political police and related institutions watched critical and radical scholars during the 20th century in all Brazilian states and abroad, under both ‘dictatorial’ and ...
Federico Ferretti, Guilherme Ribeiro
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