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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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'Why have the dead come back? The instance of photography [PDF]
, 2016 This essay examines how the critical theory of photography has, at least since Barthes and Sontag, developed a default position that is routinely suspicious of the political and aesthetic value of images of the dead, even as the archive of images of the ...
Luckhurst, Roger
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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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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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Anthropocene bodies, geological time and the crisis of natality [PDF]
, 2017 In its explicit engagement with the possibility of human extinction, the Anthropocene thesis might be seen as signalling a `crisis of natality’. Engaging with two works of fiction - Cormac McCarthy’s The Road (2006) and Anne Michaels’ Fugitive Pieces ...
Clark, Nigel Halcomb
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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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Claims of Existence between Biopolitics and Thanatopolitics [PDF]
, 2017 I will focus on the story of Ali, a transgender activist friend, who was fighting against transphobia, his illness, and eventual death — during the 2013 public uprisings in Istanbul. Focusing on both the historic moment and this personal story, I ask: what happens when bodies assemble to protest, resist, and lay claim to an-other vision of liveable ...
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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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Governing migration through death in Europe and the US : identification, burial and the crisis of modern humanism [PDF]
, 2016 Border deaths have become an established feature of contemporary migratory politics in both Europe and the US. This article examines similarities and differences in practices of ‘governing migration through death’ across the US-Mexico (Sonoran) and in ...
Squire, Vicki
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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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