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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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Power on the Plantation Complex: Biopolitics and Thanatopolitics [PDF]

, 2022
This study examines how planters in Barbados, from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century, exercised three modes of power (sovereignty, discipline, and governmentality) in the management of those enslaved.
Michelakos, Jason Michael
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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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Multiple Frames: Remarks on the Framing of Borders and Migration

On_Culture
This _Essay attempts a preliminary framing of what we can understand by the work of ‘framing’ in the context of borders and migration and its inherent tensions.
Heidrun Friese
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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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Public Care for Children in (Post)Socialist European Films: On the Side of Sons and Stepdaughters of the Nation?

Sociology Lens, Volume 37, Issue 1, Page 87-104, March 2024.
Abstract This article explores the multifaceted role of films that disseminate critical views on public care for children in terms of their epistemic sensitivity towards the main challenges of constructing discursive practices around children and their subjectivity.
Victoria Shmidt
wiley   +1 more source

A man, burning : communicative suffering and the ethics of images [PDF]

, 2015
This paper assumes a relationship among life, death and power in order to underline the following: under certain conditions, self-sacrifice—or the form of death broadly associated with self-immolation—has the power to mobilise political life.
Stamenkovic, Marko
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A Marxist Transhumanism?

New Proposals, 2022
ranshumanism is a philosophical, cultural and political revolutionary movement. It proposes a radical trans- formation of the human being and the society in which it develops.
Santiago Javier Armesilla Conde
doaj  

At the margins of neoliberal governmentality: the extermination of peripheral youth in the Brazilian Amazon region

, 2021
International audienceThis research project originally proposed to analyze and describe the phenomenon of the extermination of peripheral young people in Amazonia, and to discover to what extent this politics of death (thanatopolitics) constitutes a ...
Deluchey, Jean-François
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What is Extinction? Ecopolitics of the End [version 2; peer review: 2 approved, 1 approved with reservations]

Routledge Open Research
In recent years, extinction has become something of a buzzword used to portray the state of consciousness of the epoch. Its definition as a concept, however, heavily oscillates between naturalistic, speculative, ethical and critical connotations. The aim
Gregorio Tenti
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