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Liberal Thanatopolitics and the HIV/AIDS Pandemic

Alternatives: Global, Local, Political, 2013
The strength of Roberto Esposito’s immunitary reading of biopolitics lies in its ability to bring together biopolitics and thanatopolitics without fully collapsing them into each other. However, although Esposito has carefully elaborated the thanatopolitical tendency within Nazi biopolitics, the very idea of liberal thanatopolitics appears to be ...
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Thanatopolitics: Reading in Agamben a Rejoinder to Biopolitical Life

Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, 2008
“Does he know his sentence?” “No,” said the officer. … “It would be pointless to inform him of it.
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The unequal death. A study on the thanatopolitics of disability

2022
During the pandemic, dependent elderly people and those with disabilities were among the most affected by Covid-19: the mortality rate in these people, especially those living in residential care facilities, was much higher than in the rest of the population.
Bernardini M. G., Tarantino C.
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Immunity, Bare Life, and the Thanatopolitics of Reproduction

2017
Considers the status of reproduction and abortion for the two leading proponents of the thanatopolitical interpretations of Foucauldian biopolitics: Italian philosophers Giorgio Agamben and Roberto Esposito. Re-evaluates a number of feminist critiques of their work.
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Politicization of Life and Auto-Thanatopolitics in V for Vendetta

2020
This chapter offers a biopolitical reading of V for Vendetta using Giorgio Agamben’s topology of sovereign power and bare life. The chapter problematizes the boundaries of sovereign power, arguing that in the zone of indistinction, where bare life and the sovereign come closest to one another in an inextricable bond, by the inability to complete a ...
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Thanatopolitics in the Making of Japan’s Hokkaido: Settler Colonialism and Primitive Accumulation

Critical Historical Studies, 2015
AbstractThis article provides an overview of late nineteenth-century Japanese settler colonialism in Hokkaido, a land long inhabited by indigenous people, the Ainu, with a particular theoretical question in mind: What was the precise relationship between the settler colonization of Hokkaido and the Japanese government’s drive for primitive accumulation
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Nations in black: charting the national thanatopolitics of mourning across European countries

European Societies, 2019
Periods of national mourning have been on the rise in the last decades in European societies as part of a wider process of democratization, whereby ordinary citizens have been increasingly granted ...
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The Thanatopolitics of Neoliberalism and Consumer Precarity

2021
Rohit Varman, Devi Vijay
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The unequal death: A study on the thanatopolitics of disability in Italy

SOCIOLOGIA DEL DIRITTO, 2022
Ciro Tarantino, Maria Giulia Bernardini
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Biopolitics, Thanatopolitics, and Necropolitics

2020
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