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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"bio-politics"”.
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Foreigners and the Bio-Political State: Case Studies of Hungarian and Bosnian Refugees in Switzerland
… are mended. Michel Foucault's racism and bio-politics are used as conceptual tools to gain insight on how the perpetually open question of who belongs and who does not belong to the population might be settled. This theoretical problem is illustrated with the help of case studies on two …
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Death, Power, and the Body: A Bio-political Analysis of Death and Dying
… life. Foucault labeled such strategies as " bio-power." While bio-power exists on many levels of society, my focus has been on certain medical technologies that have helped to expose the political nature of death by calling into question the time of death and who decides it. As the line …
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Cultural governance and the formation of public service broadcasting: The early years.
… of what Foucault famously referred to as 'bio-power', particularly the bio-politics of welfare and social policy.
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(Re)mapping the Borderlands of Blackness: Afro-Mexican Consciousness and the Politics of Culture
… in manufacturing and disseminating a precise politics of culture that was used to reflect this dominant configuration and cartography of mexicanidad. That is, the knowledge and culture produced during this time imbedded and displayed codes of being and belonging, which resonated State projects …
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The Sciences of the Soul: The Emergence of Psy-sciences and the Modern State in Turkey
<p>This dissertation examines the epistemological and conceptual formation and articulations of madness, mental health, and selfhood in the context of creating a modern Turkish nation (1923-1960). Three inter-related themes run through the study. First, the emergence of new and often contested …