Andrew Dobson, Kezia Barker, Sarah L. Taylor (eds) Biosecurity: The Socio-Politics of Invasive Species and Infectious Diseases, Routledge, 2013 Description Biosecurity is the assessment and management of potentially dangerous infectious diseases, quarantined pests, invasive (alien) species, living modified organisms, and biological weapons. It is a holistic concept of direct relevance to the sustainability of agriculture, …
Janosik Herder, The Power of Platforms. How biopolitical companies threaten democracy, Public Seminar, January 25, 2019 The 2010s will likely be remembered as the decade of the rise of platforms. Google, Amazon, Facebook, Airbnb, Uber — all of these companies have become more than just billion-dollar businesses. Over the last ten years they have started …
Laena Maunula, “The pandemic subject: Canadian pandemic plans and communicating with the public about an influenza pandemic.” Healthcare policy/Politiques de santé vol. 9, Spec Issue (2013): 14-25. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24289936/ Open access Abstract In this paper, I examine the goals for pandemic public communication as outlined in two Canadian plans for pandemic planning and infection control. I …
Alan McKinlay (2009) Foucault, plague, Defoe, Culture and Organization, 15:2, 167-184 https://doi.org/10.1080/14759550902925336 Abstract For Foucault, the experience of plague is a vital moment in the development of new techniques of power and ways of thinking about the social world. Plague compels city or state authorities to take extreme measures to control disease. Quarantine, of the …
Razvan Amironesei and Caleb Scoville, Groundwater in California: From Juridical and Biopolitical Governmentality to a Political Physics of Vital Processes (2019) Theory, Culture and Society, 36 (5), pp. 133-157. https://doi.org/10.1177/0263276419850277 Abstract This article analyzes the emergence of a political rationality of groundwater in contemporary California. It contrasts a new government of nature that we call …
Martina Tazzioli, The Making of Migration. The Biopolitics of Mobility at Europe’s Borders, Sage, 2019 See also a roundtable on this book on 15 January 2020, University of Warwick The Making of Migration addresses the rapid phenomenon that has become one of the most contentious issues in contemporary life: how are migrants governed as individual …
Achille Mbembe, Necropolitics, Duke University Press, 2019 n Necropolitics Achille Mbembe, a leader in the new wave of francophone critical theory, theorizes the genealogy of the contemporary world, a world plagued by ever-increasing inequality, militarization, enmity, and terror as well as by a resurgence of racist, fascist, and nationalist forces determined to exclude and kill. …
Foucault à l’épreuve de la psychiatrie et de la psychanalyse, Astérion (ENS de Lyon), 21/2019 https://doi.org/10.4000/asterion.4074 Challenging Foucault with psychiatry and psychoanalysis Sous la direction de Laurent DARTIGUES et Elisabetta BASSO Open access Le dossier a pour but d’interroger, à partir de Michel Foucault, le lien entre la réflexion épistémologique sur la santé mentale et …
Najeeb A. Jan, The Metacolonial State: Pakistan, Critical Ontology, and the Biopolitical Horizons of Political Islam, Wiley 2019 The Metacolonial State presents a novel rethinking of the relationship between Islam and the Political. Key to the text is an original argument regarding the “biopoliticization of Islam” and the imperative need for understanding sovereign power and …
Paul Horton, School bullying and bare life: Challenging the state of exception EDUCATIONAL PHILOSOPHY AND THEORY, Volume: 51 Issue: 14, 2019, Pages: 1444-1453 https://doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2018.1557043 Despite a vast amount of research into school bullying and the widespread implementation of anti-bullying policies and programs, large numbers of students continue to report that they are routinely subjected to …
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