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Showing 1 to 20 of 101 for “"biopolitics"”.
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Between Species: Biopolitics, Resistance, and Interspeciesality
This thesis examines three twentieth-century novels—Carson McCullers’s Reflections in a Golden Eye, Charles Johnson’s Oxherding Tale, and Ruth Ozeki’s My Year of Meats—in the context of posthumanist animal studies. A Foucauldian biopolitical lens foregrounds the inextricably linked ways that both …
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The Democratic Peace Theory and Biopolitics
… engineering. Has DPT morphed into a form of biopolitics? The goal of this thesis is to delve into this question and to learn what the implications are if this is the case, and what it means for the West, democracies, terrorism, and societies. For if democracies are less and less able to …
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The Biopolitics of Famine: British Means of Colonial Control
… exert their power, the comprador class utilizes biopolitics, wielding the power of food and shelter over their fellow countrymen in a strikingly similar fashion as the British Government.</p>
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Transforming subjectivities: global mental health, biopolitics, & depression in Chile
… society, governance takes place through biopolitics as the “making live” of populations through construction of health problems as simultaneously political and economic ones. Rose (2007) posited that the outcome of living in such a society is the creation of individual-level biological …
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The Problem of Life: Governing Bodies Before and Beyond Biopolitics
This dissertation argues that biopolitics, as Michel Foucault formulated it, names a historically specific modern configuration of power rather than a universal category for all governance of bodies. It recovers what it calls the problem of life, the foundational political task of producing bodies …
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Botanical Biopolitics: The Sociopolitical Lives of Flowers in Victorian Britain
This thesis is an archivally grounded investigation of plant-human relations in Victorian Britain which considers how people engaged with and thought about the plants which surrounded them in everyday life. Seeking to position Victorian plant-thinking as a significant antecedent of contemporary …
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Rethinking the norm of Life Beyond Biopolitics. Towards an Ethical Framework
… qualification of forms of life in approaches of biopolitics and vitalism, two main perspectives that map discussions around the politics of life in contemporary political theorising. The literature on biopolitics highlights how modes of life are given meaning as effect of regimes of power that …
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The biopolitics of violence in the drama of the Niger Delta
The representation of the Niger Delta insurgency in cultural texts is often registered from the viewpoint of human history, an approach that foregrounds the politics of resistance against the multinational oil corporations in ways that ignore the contribution of the non-human elements in the …
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Open source estrogen : from biomolecules to biopolitics... hormones with institutional biopower!
A collaborative, interdisciplinary research project, Open Source Estrogen combines biohacking and speculative design to demonstrate the entrenched ways in which estrogen is a biomolecule with institutional biopower. It is a form of biotechnical civil disobedience, seeking to subvert dominant …
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Willing and Unable: Civil Defence and Biopolitics in Post-War Toronto, 1948-1951
This dissertation examines the history of the City of Toronto’s civil defence program during the early stages of the Cold War. Developed in response to the shocking creation of nuclear weapons, civil defence was designed to ensure the survival and safety of local communities in the event of a …
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Radical Turns From Gramsci To Negri. Life, Biopolitics And Social Change In Italy
In this work I investigate the concept of biopolitics as it emerges in the particular historical setting of twentieth and twenty-first Century Italy. Framing biopolitics as the foregrounding of labor-power, i.e. of the potential to produce, I define three historical moments in which this notion is …
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Digital biopolitics, hyper borders and datafication of inclusive-exclusion in EU migration management
Αυτή η διπλωματική διερευνά τους τρόπους με τους οποίους η Ευρωπαϊκή Ένωση ρυθμίζει προοδευτικά τη μετανάστευση χρησιμοποιώντας ψηφιακά συστήματα, βιομετρικά στοιχεία και αλγοριθμικές αξιολογήσεις αποφάσεων. Εξετάζει πώς το EURODAC, το Σύστημα Εισόδου/Εξόδου (EES), το EUROSUR και το ελληνικό …
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“Biopolitics from below?” — Lessons of Emergent Urban Governance Trend Under Covid-19 in China
… Complicating what Panagiotis Sotiris terms biopolitics from below, it suggests that the creative posts on social media platforms are a savvy means of claiming back our bodies.
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Epigenetics and biopolitics: moving away from using punitive policies to address opioid use in pregnancy
Opioid use in pregnancy is the latest in a long list of social issues in the United States that is being addressed with punitive policies that disproportionately affect women of color and their families and do not focus on environmental factors contributing to increasing drug use in pregnancy. …
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Governmentality, Biopolitics, and State Sovereignty: the Spatial Dialectic Production of Uyghur during the `War on Terror`
The interplay between governmentality, biopolitics and the state manifests itself discursively and materially within the realm of sovereignty over territory and at the level of the population. This thesis is specifically concerned with the relational contexts of the People’s Republic of China …
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Film Noir as the Sovereign-Image of Empire: Cynicism, White Male Biopolitics, and the Neoliberal Cinematic Apparatus
This dissertation develops a theory of film noir as sovereign-image, a meta-generic and meta-cinematic discourse that confronts the viewer with the biopolitical ambivalence of the cinematic apparatus but enjoins her to nonetheless affirm its normative use. I argue that classical American noir …
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Transnational biopolitics and family-making in secrecy : an ethnography of reproductive travel from Turkey to Northern Cyprus
This dissertation is an ethnographic study of reproductive travel between Turkey and Northern Cyprus. Based on interviews and observations primarily carried out in a private In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) clinic in Northern Cyprus, between November 2014 and January 2016, it investigates how and why …
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