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Thanatopolitics: Mutilating Autodefensas
Film-Philosophy, 2019 The state response is to capture and disband the autodefensa movement. This is thanatopolitics mutilating life, collapsing living death into institutional power. It reproduces a closed (read: mutilated) body that either confirms the state or is disbanded. Mutilation is the basis for thanatopolitical rule.
R Guy Emerson
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The Death of Others. On the Narrative Rhetoric of Neoliberal Thanatopolitics
Disability Studies Quarterly, 2022 Euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide (PAS) are deeply controversial topics both within and beyond disability studies, involving issues of structural ableism, discrimination, and the right to self-determination. A common defence of the legalization of PAS, as distinct from euthanasia, rests on the right of an individual to freely choose when to end
Jan Grue
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Milking Welfare: Bovis Sacer and the Inclusive Thanatopolitics of the Dairy Farm
Antipode, 2023 AbstractAgricultural technologies in dairy farming facilitate increased animal productivity while simultaneously supporting appeals to animal welfare. Dairy producers operationalise these technologies to shape cows’ subjectivities to be compatible with industrial production and consumer preferences. Through this subject formation, cows are incorporated
Evan Klasky, Bilal Butt
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Contemporary Extinctions and Multispecies Thanatopolitics
The Journal of Population and SustainabilityContrary to what Foucault argued, modern biopolitics is inherently thanatopolitical, i.e., it is a politics of life premised on a politics of death. This becomes clear when non-human elements are given greater relevance than Foucault afforded them.
João Aldeia
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From «thanatopolitics» to the universalization of economic rationality: «thanatoeconomy»
Revista Colombiana de Bioética, 2015 The article has as an objective to put into evidence the progression from biological totalitarianism to totalitarianism of the life death market in world society. With this end a track is marked through the history of thanatopolitics and its etymological relationship.
Abdénago Yate Arévalo +1 more
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Biopolitical Correspondences: Settler Nationalism, Thanatopolitics, and the Perils of Hybridity
Australian Literary Studies, 2011 How does (post)colonial literary culture, so often annexed to nationalist concerns, interface with what Michel Foucalt called biopolitics? Biopolitics can be defined as the regularisation of a population according to the perceived insistence on norms.
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Hambre de tinieblas. Caníbales, zombis y vampiros en tres novelas contemporáneas del Cono Sur
Amerika, 2023 The intention of this paper is to formulate the concept of 'monstrous hunger' as the center of proposals and actions in three contemporary novels from the Southern Cone that fall within the horror genre: Cadáver exquisito (2018), by Agustina Bazterrica ...
Liliana Lara
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Nursing Philosophy, Volume 24, Issue 4, October 2023., 2023 Abstract This paper begins with the lived accounts of emergency and critical care medical interventions in which an unhoused person is brought to the emergency department in cardiac arrest. The case is a dramatised representation of the extent to which biopolitical forces via reduction to bare life through biopolitical and necropolitical operations are
Danisha Jenkins +2 more
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History Compass, Volume 21, Issue 2, February 2023., 2023 Abstract This article examines the relative absence of historical literature pertaining to the battlefield disposal of military corpses during and shortly after the First World War. It posits that while First World War Studies constitute an enormously rich field of research, scholars are yet to consider corpses and their disposal as a central topic of ...
Romain Fathi
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Camp methodologies: The “how” of studying camps
Area, Volume 54, Issue 3, Page 338-346, September 2022., 2022 Abstract This special section contributes to the growing interdisciplinary field of camp studies by examining the ways in which scholars methodologically approach and study camps and camp‐like spaces. The characteristics of camps, which render them of interest to scholarship in the first place, simultaneously generate methodological, ethical, and ...
Yolanda Weima, Hanno Brankamp
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