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“Thanatopolitics” in the Socio-Political Discourse in the 2000s and 2020s: between the “Living Dead” and “Necrosociality” [PDF]

Дискурс
Introduction. Over the past twenty years, the terms “thanatopolitics”, “necropolitics”, “necroeconomics”, etc. have been actively used in socio-political discourse. But the definitions of these meanings remain blurred.
I. M. Rotov
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Entextualizing Thanatopolitics

Semiotic Review
On December 17, 2010, Mohammed Bouazizi, a 27-year-old street vendor set himself on fire on the public square facing the Sidi Bouzid town hall in Tunisia. This social event became an irreversible turn in the history of the Arab World.
Mariem Guellouz
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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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Thanatopolitics and thanatosociology

СОЦИОЛОШКИ ДИСКУРС, 2017
Th e aim of the appendix is to show the directions of sociological researchof political use of death. Th ere are two related Social Sciencediscourses on death: (1) thanatos sociological, which deals with socialinequalities in mortality, and (2) thanatopolitical, in which center isthe political instrumentalization of death.
Todor Kuljić, Kuljić, Todor
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Working the edges of Posthuman disability studies: theorising with disabled young people with life-limiting impairments. [PDF]

Sociol Health Illn, 2019
Abstract This paper is built upon an assumption: that social theory can be generated through a meaningful engagement with a co‐researcher group of disabled young people. Our co‐researchers are theoretical provocateurs and theorists in their own right who, through their activism and writing, are challenging us to reconsider the meaning of life, death ...
Liddiard K, Whitney S, Evans K, Watts L, Vogelmann E, Spurr R, Aimes C, Runswick-Cole K, Goodley D.   +8 more
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The Biopolitics of Transactional Capitalism

MediaTropes, 2011
In the spring of 2010, major newspapers in the U.S. announced arrival of a “recovery” from the economic recession precipitated by the 2008 financial crisis.
Majia Holmer Nadesan
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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.
Michael Griffiths (19583197)
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Nursing in deathworlds: Necropolitics of the life, dying and death of an unhoused person in the United States healthcare industrial complex

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, Laura Chechel, Brian Jenkins   +2 more
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The Biopolitics of the Coronavirus Pandemic: Herd Immunity, Thanatopolitics, Acts of Heroism [PDF]

, 2020
The coronavirus pandemic offers a rare opportunity to critique the biopolitical argument and a chance to reveal the life-and-death nexus, which is often clandestine in its operation.
Christina Banalopoulou, Ali Rıza Taşkale   +1 more
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Conceptualising the ‘Administration of the Dead’: Cadavers, war and public health in the early 20th century

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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