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From bare life and necropolitics to a feminist care ethic: ageism in the COVID-19 pandemic and future directions [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers in Sociology
This perspective paper begins with discussing how COVID-19 magnified the pre-pandemic ‘bare life’ conditions which exposed older people’s lives to risks and indignities in the health and social care system.
Bethany Simmonds
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Necropolitics [PDF]

open access: yesPolitical Theology, 2020
Necropolitics: The Religious Crisis of Mass Incarceration in America explores the pernicious and persistent presence of mass incarceration in American public life. Christophe D. Ringer argues that mass incarceration persists largely because the othering and criminalization of Black people in times of crisis is a significant part of the religious ...
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Necropoetic gestures

open access: yesHorizontes Antropológicos, 2023
If necropolitics, according to Achille Mbembe, involves “contemporary forms of subjugation of life to the powers of death,” necropoetics, as proposed here, involves the poetic and gestural interruption of necropolitics.
Scott Head
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The Necropolice Economy: Mapping Biopolitical Priorities and Human Expendability in the Time of COVID-19

open access: yesSocieties, 2021
Necropolitics centers on the dark side of biopolitics, but if we are to take seriously Jacques Ranciere’s reassignment of ‘politics’ and ‘police,’ then what is revealed by necropolitical analysis is not simply the capacity to ‘make and let die’, but also
Mark Howard
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2/ LGBTQ+ necropolitics

open access: yesWhatever, 2021
This is part 2 of 6 of the dossier What do we talk about when we talk about queer death?, edited by M. Petricola. The contributions collected in this article sit at the crossroads between thanatology, gender studies, and LGBT+ studies and tackle ...
Varpu Alasuutari   +5 more
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Bio/nekropolityka

open access: yesPoliteja, 2023
BIO/NECROPOLITICS: SPHINX The article examines two sculptures, one by Krzysztof M. Bednarski (Sphinx: To Great Builders from the Pharaohs to Joseph Stalin, 1984), the other by Kara Walker (A Subtlety, or the Marvelous Sugar Baby, 2014).
Patrycja Cembrzyńska
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Mapping a Contested Space: Northeast India Through the Ages

open access: yesSpace and Culture, India, 2023
Northeast India, home to diverse ethnic communities, has often been described as the cauldron of ethnic violence and insurgencies. The ongoing crisis in Manipur (in the form of a fratricidal war between the Meiteis and Kukis) and the State’s failure to ...
Debajyoti Biswas
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Torture, that recurring nightmare. Social crisis and pandemic

open access: yesTorture, 2022
This  article addresses the summative effects of the social crisis and the Covid-19 pandemic on the health-disease-care process at the level of Chilean society in the neoliberal context.
Carlos Madariaga
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A Necropolítica Genocida de Bolsonaro em tempos de Pandemia e o Projeto Ultra-Neoliberal

open access: yesRevista Interdisciplinar em Cultura e Sociedade, 2020
Este artigo questiona como a pandemia do Covid-19 evidencia o substrato que sustenta o projeto ultra-neoliberal do governo Bolsonaro, sob as estruturas do colonialismo, racismo e cis-hetero-patriarcado que degrada os indesejáveis e o próprio Estado ...
LUANA ROSÁRIO
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“So what?” Life government and death production during the pandemics in Brazil

open access: yesO Que Nos Faz Pensar, 2020
The text interrogates the relations between life and death in the Brazilian politics, departing from the idea that the main philosophical task is to think the present, i.e, the effects of the pandemics in the country.
André Duarte
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