Vanessa Lemm, and Miguel Vatter (eds) The Viral Politics of Covid-19 Nature, Home, and Planetary Health. Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. About this book This book critically examines the COVID-19 pandemic and its legal and biological governance using a multidisciplinary approach. The perspectives reflected in this volume investigate the imbrications between technosphere and biosphere at social, …
Raili Marling and Marko Pajević (eds), Care, Control and COVID-19. Health and Biopolitics in Philosophy and Literature, de Gruyter, 2023 https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110799361 About this book This volume sheds light on the social and cultural transformations that accompanied the Covid-19 crisis by looking at health and biopolitics from a philosophical and literary perspective. The biopolitical measures taken …
Højme, Philip. 2022. “Biopolitics and the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Foucauldian Interpretation of the Danish Government’s Response to the Pandemic” Philosophies 7, no. 2: 34. https://doi.org/10.3390/philosophies7020034 Abstract With the coronavirus pandemic and the Omicron variant once again forcing countries into lockdown (as of late 2021), this essay seeks to outline a Foucauldian critique of various legal …
Kaufman, S.R., Morgan, L.M. The Anthropology of the Beginnings and Ends of Life (2023) Medical Anthropology, pp. 465-490. DOI: 10.4324/9781315249360-40 Abstract This essay reviews recent anthropological attention to the “beginnings” and “endings” of life. A large literature since the 1990s highlights the analytic trends and innovations that characterize anthropological attention to the cultural production of …
Menard, R., Törrönen, J. Immigration, Multiculturalism and Biopolitical Projects on ‘Difference’: Negotiating Intersecting Social Divisions From Positions of Privilege and Disadvantage (2023) Nordic Journal of Migration Research, 13 (1), pp. 1-23. DOI: 10.33134/njmr.513 Abstract Informed by Foucault’s concept of biopolitics, in this study we examine how lived experiences of privilege and disadvantage may be at …
Erbilen, S.Ü., Uysal, M. The Common Point of Countries Successful Policies in the Struggle Against COVID-19: Women Leaders (2023) SAGE Open, 13 (2) DOI: 10.1177/21582440231179458 Abstract During the COVID-19 pandemic, which is one of the biggest epidemics of the last century and can be regarded as a global tragedy, leaders had to mobilize many resources …
Stephanie Cox, Showers: Discourse, Disability, and the State, PhD thesis, Auckland University of Technology, Aotearoa New Zealand, 2023 Open access Abstract Showering is a pleasurable part of a daily hygiene routine for many people. However, for those who are unable to stand or step up into the typical shower unit, it is a space of …
Rust, J.R. Ad Salutem Publicam: public health and pastoral government in More’s Utopia (2023) Textual Practice DOI: 10.1080/0950236X.2023.2205708 Abstract Discourses of health and disease pervade More’s Utopia. The text insistently plays upon the ambiguities of salus, a term with a wide semantic range including spiritual salvation, the physical health of the individual body, and the …
Moon, K., Cho, H.D. Biopolitics and a right to tourism (2023) Current Issues in Tourism DOI: 10.1080/13683500.2023.2203852 Abstract Tourism as a right was officially stated in the Global Code of Ethics for Tourism (1999) and it would be granted normative status once the Framework Convention on Tourism Ethics (2020) is legally binding. As such, the …
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 …
