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Showing 1 to 20 of 49 for “"biopower"”.
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Open source estrogen : from biomolecules to biopolitics... hormones with institutional biopower!
… estrogen is a biomolecule with institutional biopower. It is a form of biotechnical civil disobedience, seeking to subvert dominant biopolitical agents of hormonal management, knowledge production, and anthropogenic toxicity. The project begins with a speculative question: what if it was …
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"As Long as It's Healthy...": Prenatal Health, Disability and Biopower
The past thirty years have seen widespread adoption of prenatal testing technologies used to detect potential disabilities in fetuses (Lupton, 2011; Rapp, 2011; Tremain, 2006; Weir, 1996). The increased routinization of prenatal testing and the discourse of responsible motherhood coupled with …
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Post-9/11 Networks of Biopower: Surveillance and Resistance In the Works of Juli Zeh
… theories of discipline and punish and of biopower networks, the focus of this thesis is on the mechanisms of surveillance and regulation that govern everyday life in contemporary German society. In both texts, control is exerted over individuals who have also internalized the systems of …
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An Archaeology of Pain
… science and medicine. Through the discourses of biopower and technoscience pain is used to construct and maintain the social body. Biopower and technoscience are discursive practices that are enveloped within the disciplines of Western society. Specifically, the disciplines of education, science, …
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Mobile terms in the conceptual architecture of Michel Foucault's 'Productive Power'
… serves as preparation for his genealogy of Biopower, which entails shifts in the mobile terms as the analysis of power-knowledge configurations turns from Discipline to Biopower. Foucault’s work on Biopower and Biopolitics, his integration of Discipline into the framework of Biopower, and …
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The New Borderland: A Mixed-Methods Examination of Teacher Perceptions of Intelligence, Race, and Socioeconomic Status in Relation to Behavior Genetics
… and surveys through the notion of ‘discriminate biopower’–a theoretical framework that combines intersectionality with biopower. Findings from this study suggest that US teachers believe children differ genetically and see genetics playing a role in a student’s ability and race. Furthermore, …
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Detroit's Sport Spaces And The Rhetoric Of Consumption
… discourses, through the regulation, control and biopower of the city’s sports spaces and their rhetorical effect on Detroit’s identity, and through the creation of distinct public memories produced from these discourses.</p>
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ACTS OF QUEER RESILIENCE: TRAUMA AS IDENTITY AND AGENCY IN LGBTQ POLITICAL ASYLUM
… can be traced to Michel Foucault’s notion of “biopower” where the body is viewed as a laboring machine, disciplining the body to optimize its capabilities and extort its forces. Biopower is literally having power over other bodies in “an explosion of numerous and diverse techniques for …
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Resistance on the Imperial Terrain: Constructing a counter-Empire in Paul Beatty’s The White Boy Shuffle
… caste, a phenomenon Hardt and Negri call biopower. As Gunnar becomes aware of the insidious methodologies that seek to circumscribe or direct his thoughts and actions, he visualizes these controls as strings with himself as the puppet. This awareness leads to a form of fatalism that …
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Resistance on the Imperial Terrain: Constructing a counter-Empire in Paul Beatty’s The White Boy Shuffle
… caste, a phenomenon Hardt and Negri call biopower. As Gunnar becomes aware of the insidious methodologies that seek to circumscribe or direct his thoughts and actions, he visualizes these controls as strings with himself as the puppet. This awareness leads to a form of fatalism that …
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New Directions in State Crime: A Queer Criminology Perspective
… LGBTQ+ community. In addition, the concepts of biopower and necropolitics are used as an analytical framework to demonstrate the ways in which states and their actors decide which populations of people are worthy of life.</p>
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Политика Чернобыля в Беларуси в 1986-2008 годах: формирование и проявления дискурс-коалиций /
… facts (Callon 1979; Latour 1989, 2004), biopower (Foucault 1996) and the methodology of the discourse-coalitions (Hajer 1995) in this dissertation the constructivist analysis of the politics of Chernobyl is represented. The main hypothesis of this research is to identify the …
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A Discourse Analysis of University Internationalization Planning Documents
… to address this gap, Foucault’s framework of biopower and governmentality were applied to a discourse analysis of the ways in which Big Ten universities’ internationalization planning documents allow for both the reproduction as well as the challenging of neoliberal economic rationalities that …
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A liberdade de Foucault no interior de suas fronteiras
… and its consequences in disciplinary power and biopower were analysed in order to understand how the device of sexuality was appropriated by Christian pastoral power in the constitution of the modern subject and how Foucault founded the relationship between power and freedom. The second moment …
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Foucauldian Micropolitics and the Evolution of Party Polarization: Diverging Discourses in America's Two-Party System
… Foucauldian theories of micropolitics and biopower, a qualitative case study, critical discourse analyses, and ANES polling data, this study finds that not only have the parties been deploying drastically diverging discourses on issues of biopolitical administration, but this also tends to …
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Discourses of Disability and Sexuality: Barriers to Sexual Citizenship
… Sterilization Act of 1928, I argue that colonial biopower segregated and aimed to eradicate minority groups from its goal of a pure Canadian state. I suggest these practices influence present-day policy. I find this discourse present a guide to sexual education that has been produced by the …
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The Brain Scan as Ideograph
… As predicted by Michel Foucault’s theories of biopower and Falguni Sheth’s theories of madness and racialization, the production of “normal” and “abnormal” categories legitimizes forcible intervention from the state. Psychiatry justifies limiting the civil rights of abnormal or “ill” by arguing …
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Pregnant in Heels: A Critical Analysis of the Ideal, Maternal Body in Celebrity Magazines
… of the disciplining of docile bodies and biopower, along with Lyotard’s desire-based, libidinal economy, the literature on the public presentation of maternal bodies will be analyzed with focus on newly developed, rigorous appearance and fitness standards for mothers. Additionally, how …
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An Unholy Union? : Eugenic Feminism in the Nordic Countries, ca. 1890-1940
… upon theories of the body, intersectionality and biopower to illustrate how eugenic feminists defined, middle class women as valuable, who contributed positively society with their reproductive function as opposed to questionable women from the working class and under class who were unable to …
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An Investigation into the Phenomenon and Discourse of Working Out Loud.
… Out Loud as an expression of what Foucault calls biopower, wherein the everyday life qualities of individuals are increasingly indexed to the needs of the organisation.
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