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Crise global e a necropolítica do governo Bolsonaro em tempos de pandemia
Ciências Sociais Unisinos, 2020 This article aims to analyze the crisis of global capitalism and the response of the Brazilian State to safeguard the contradictory interests of capital and labor in times of pandemic. It is theoretically based on the conceptions of structural crisis by
Osmar G. Alencar
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Kvinder, Køn & Forskning, 2023 Drawing on narrative interviews with people who have recently or in the past fled to Denmark, this article examines experiences of being cast as refugees within the Danish asylum and integration bureaucracy.
Tine Brøndum
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The Political Economy of Emergency: Postcolonialism, Crisis Governance and Decolonial Alternatives
Journal of Law and Society, EarlyView.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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The Necropolitics of Liberty: Sovereignty, Fantasy, and United States Gun Culture
Lateral, 2020 This article approaches the speculative fiction of the survivalist right as an archive that can illuminate the continuities between the fantasies of necropolitical power that animate the radical right and undergird the sovereignty of the United States ...
Alex Trimble Young
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Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines the embodied and institutional forms of marginalization experienced by Mexican deportees in Tijuana. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in clinics and social service organizations, it explores how deportees are corporeally stigmatized, denied legal recognition, and pathologized as addicts in need of coercive ...
Carlos Martinez
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Raído, 2020 In this article, we want to discuss the novel Assim na terra como embaixo da terra (2017), by Ana Paula Maia. The work invites us to think about the penal system in an apparent extreme situation, in which prisoners are murdered by the administrator of a ...
Maria Perla Araújo Morais
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Beyond safety net value(s): Tourist hotel rooms for people experiencing homelessness
Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines the shape of care and value through an ethnographic study of an intensive, temporary housing intervention for people experiencing homelessness in San Francisco, California, during the COVID‐19 pandemic. Building on a new anthropological theory of value, the results highlight the slipperiness between surveillance and care,
Naomi C. Schoenfeld
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Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract This article draws on four years of ethnographic fieldwork in Los Angeles’ (LA) jail mental health facility to describe the interrelated crises of rising numbers of people declared incompetent to stand trial and the recurrent failure of managing madness in jail.
Jeremy Levenson
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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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Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Using the case of Polish far‐right activists in Britain, this paper explores how migrants joining far‐right groups in countries of residence reconcile their own transnational lives with nativist attachment to the national soil. The paper adopts an anthropological framework on discursive and performative strategies used to navigate this ...
Rafal Soborski +2 more
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