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Diego Andreucci, Christos Zografos, Between improvement and sacrifice: Othering and the (bio)political ecology of climate change (2022)

Clare O'Farrell

6 March 2023

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. (2022)

Clare O'Farrell

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5 March 2023

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 (2022)

Clare O'Farrell

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4 March 2023

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 (2023)

Clare O'Farrell

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2 February 2023

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)

Clare O'Farrell

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14 August 2022

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, Biomedical technocracy, the networked public sphere and the biopolitics of COVID-19: notes on the Agamben affair (2022)

Clare O'Farrell

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12 August 2022

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 …

Special Issue – Call for papers: Biopolitical tensions after pandemic times (2022)

Clare O'Farrell

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30 July 2022

Special Issue – Call for papers: Biopolitical tensions after pandemic times, Foucault Studies PDF of call for papers Foucault Studies Special issue call for papers Biopolitical tensions after pandemic times Guest editors Annika Skoglund, Uppsala University Anindya Sekhar Purakayastha, Kazi Nazrul University and ILSR, Calcutta Fabiana Jardim, University of São Paulo David Armstrong, King’s College …

Twyford, E.J. Crisis accountability and aged “care” during COVID-19 (2022)

Clare O'Farrell

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28 June 2022

Twyford, E.J. Crisis accountability and aged “care” during COVID-19 (2022) Meditari Accountancy Research DOI: 10.1108/MEDAR-05-2021-1296 Abstract Purpose: This study aims to fill the gaps in mandated reports with social accounts to provide more inclusive accountability during a crisis using the illustrative example of Anglicare’s Newmarch House during a deadly COVID-19 outbreak. Design/methodology/approach: This study uses …

Alexander J. Means & Yuko Ida, Education after empire: A biopolitical analytics of capital, nation, and identity (2022)

Clare O'Farrell

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16 June 2022

Alexander J. Means & Yuko Ida (2022) Education after empire: A biopolitical analytics of capital, nation, and identity, Educational Philosophy and Theory, 54:7, 882-891 DOI: 10.1080/00131857.2020.1803836 Abstract As it emerged in the late twentieth century, Empire promised a new era of global cooperation and stability through a seamless integration of late capitalism and neoliberal technocracy. …

Brenner, D., Tazzioli, M. Defending Society, Building the Nation: Rebel Governance as Competing Biopolitics (2022)

Clare O'Farrell

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12 June 2022

Brenner, D., Tazzioli, M. Defending Society, Building the Nation: Rebel Governance as Competing Biopolitics (2022) International Studies Quarterly, 66 (2) DOI: 10.1093/isq/sqac007 Abstract Rebel groups govern significant parts of territory worldwide. They often deliver crucial public goods and services to populations under their control. Scholarship on rebel governance commonly explains this with the need for …