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Biopolitical Borders and the Political Economy of Migration Flows to and From Türkiye

Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, Volume 25, Issue 3, Page 276-291, December 2025.
ABSTRACT This study examines the biopolitical borders of Türkiye. On the one hand, Türkiye deserves attention as a destination country that received millions of Syrian asylum seekers after the outbreak of the war in Syria and hundreds of thousands of migrants from other surrounding countries since the early 2010s.
Mehmet Özyürek
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Death and Existence in Jibanananda Das’ Literary Imagination

Transcript: An e-Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies
The present research paper investigates death and existence in the literary imagination of Jibanananda Das (1899-1954), one of the most significant modern Bengali poets, essayists, short fiction writers, and novelists of the twentieth century.
Tapas Sarkar
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Race in the Metabolic Rift: The Metaphor and Materiality of Whiteness

Antipode, Volume 57, Issue 5, Page 1846-1871, September 2025.
Abstract If metabolic rifts are ruptures, chasms, or divisions, what happens inside them? Shifting attention from multi‐scalar socio‐ecological and corporeal metabolisms towards the internal dynamics of rupture, this paper returns to the origins of metabolic thought to see what happens at the bottom of these clefts within nature.
Archie Davies
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Analyzing Zombie Dystopia as Neoliberal Scenario: An Exercise in Emancipatory Catastrophism

Frontiers in Sociology, 2018
This article starts with a hypothesis that the sociological analysis of literary and film production on the “living dead” in the 21st century, owing to the triumph of neoliberalism that has accompanied by the process of globalization, allows us to better
Andreu Domingo
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Migrant Data Extractivism: Tech and Borders at the Limit of Rights

International Migration, Volume 63, Issue 4, August 2025.
ABSTRACT In this paper I present the notion ‘migrant data extractivism’ and argue that it is a defining aspect of pervasive systems of data‐based migration governance. I focus on two specific examples: the partnership between the International Rescue Committee and OpenAI for providing chatbot assistance for the delivery of educational experiences to ...
Marianna Poyares
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Fitful Infrastructures: Dwelling with Infrastructural Elimination in Gaza

Antipode, Volume 57, Issue 3, Page 886-906, May 2025.
Abstract Since 7 October 2023, Gaza has been subjected to unprecedented Israeli genocidal violence that has erased its life‐supporting infrastructure. To understand how Gazans navigated these catastrophic conditions—or what we call “infrastructural elimination”—by inventing ephemeral practices using scarce materials at hand, the paper examines “fitful ...
Khalid Dader, Mikko Joronen
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The humanitarian border as a violence‐producing environment: revisiting aid and anti‐migration protests on Lesvos, Greece

Disasters, Volume 49, Issue 2, April 2025.
Abstract Violent clashes erupted on the Greek island of Lesvos in early 2020, during which aid groups, volunteers, and activists were threatened and attacked. Aid actors and media sources attributed these events to far‐right, nationalist, and xenophobic mobilisation; however, this risks ignoring more structural factors and local perspectives on asylum ...
Bram J. Jansen
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Critique, History and Politics: Notes for a Foucauldian Reading of the So-called Conquest of the Desert in Argentina

Cuadernos de Filosofía Latinoamericana
In this article, I propose a Foucauldian reading of the so-called Conquest of the Desert, which took place in Argentina during the 19th century. This event played a foundational role in the formation of the Argentinian nation-state and its society, and ...
Marcelo Raffin
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Invasive Species: Immunity and Community in Contemporary Outbreak Narratives

The Russian Review, Volume 83, Issue 3, Page 399-413, July 2024.
Abstract The word contagion, derived from Latin contagio, the combination of con (“together with”) and tagio (“touch”), suggests a close relationship between the human body and community. It stands to reason, then, that contagion narratives in one way or the other attempt to reflect upon one’s being in the world, with others, whether human or non‐human,
Julia Vaingurt
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For critical geo‐histories of population. Engaging geographically with Massimo Livi Bacci's works

Geography Compass, Volume 18, Issue 3, March 2024.
Abstract This paper aims at calling geographers' attention to the works of Italian historical demographer Massimo Livi Bacci, who authored fundamental texts on the indigenous genocide in the Americas, on the history of world population, on global migrations and on population's environmental ‘sustainability’.
Federico Ferretti
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