André Duarte, Pandemic and Crisis of Democracy. Biopolitics, Neoliberalism, and Necropolitics in Bolsonaro’s Brazil, Routledge, 2023 Book Description In this incisive book, André Duarte examines the health crisis resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic and the contemporary crisis of democracy. Reflecting on President Jair Bolsonaro’s misgovernment of Brazil, as evidenced by his political actions, speeches and …
Marco Piasentier and Sara Raimondi, Debating Biopolitics. New Perspectives on the Government of Life. Edward Elgar, 2022 Emerging out of the theoretical and practical urge to reflect on key contemporary debates arising in biopolitical scholarship, this timely book launches an in-depth investigation into the concept and history of biopolitics. In light of tumultuous political dynamics …
Vito De Lucia, Beyond anthropocentrism and ecocentrism: a biopolitical reading of environmental law, Journal of Human Rights and the Environment, Vol. 8 No. 2, September 2017, pp. 181–202 https://doi.org/10.4337/jhre.2017.02.01 Abstract The ‘rise of ecosystem regimes’ is increasingly seen as the key for the resolution of the unfolding ecological crises that are the mark of the …
Jeff Justice, Biopolitics of Disasters: Hurricane Irma and Climate Change. Green European Journal, 3 November 2017 Recent hurricanes and natural disasters give rise to the question of how countries and people can recover and where they should get support from. French philosopher and historian Michel Foucault’s concept of biopolitics can reshape how to view human-aided …
Diego Andreucci, Christos Zografos, Between improvement and sacrifice: Othering and the (bio)political ecology of climate change, Political Geography, Volume 92, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2021.102512. (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0962629821001724) Abstract: In this article, we argue that othering is central to the government of climate change. Critically engaging with Foucault’s ideas on biopolitics and racism, we elaborate a conceptual perspective for analysing …
Luke, T.W. Investment and Rapid Climate Change as Biopolitics: Foucault and Governance of the Self and Others through ESG. Sustainability 2022, 14, 14974. https://doi.org/10.3390/su142214974 Abstract: Environmental, social and governance (ESG) investment strategies today are an established practice in personal and public finance. They also provide crucial benchmarks for corporate social responsibility policy in gauging the …
Grinberg, S. Between Responsibility and “Responsibilization”: The Everyday Making of School in Buenos Aires Slums In S. Nombuso Dlamini, Angela Stienen (Eds.), Spatialized Injustice in the Contemporary City Protesting as Public Pedagogy, Routledge, 2022 Abstract On the basis of field work conducted in the periphery of the Buenos Aires metropolitan area, this chapter discusses some …
Octave Larmagnac-Matheron, Vaccin pour abeilles : quand la biopolitique touche les animaux, Philosophie magazine, 23 janvier 2023 C’est une première : un vaccin pour abeilles domestiques a été autorisé aux États-Unis. L’objectif : protéger les insectes contre la bactérie Paenibacillus larvae qui décime les ruches, et par conséquent la filière apicole. Foucault y verrait peut-être …
Fleming, P., Godfrey, R., Lilley, S. Conceptualizing business logistics as an ‘apparatus of security’ and its implications for management and organizational inquiry (2022) Human Relations DOI: 10.1177/00187267221110458 Abstract Global commodity capitalism necessitates the fast and efficient movement of all manner of entities across the globe. Importantly, this commercial flow needs to be secured against the …
Tim Christiaens (2022) Biomedical technocracy, the networked public sphere and the biopolitics of COVID-19: notes on the Agamben affair, Culture, Theory and Critique, DOI: 10.1080/14735784.2022.2099919 ABSTRACT Giorgio Agamben’s public interventions during the COVID-19 pandemic against emergency measures like lockdowns, obligatory vaccinations and the prescribed use of masks have been highly controversial. I argue that Agamben’s …
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