Essays about: "Bare life"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 33 essays containing the words Bare life.

  1. 21. Is it enough to ‘add homosexual men and stir’? The significance of materialism in HIV prevention in the Global South.

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen; Lunds universitet/Graduate School

    Author : Katharina Jemima Hopp; [2017]
    Keywords : HIV AIDS; homosexual; Uganda; materialism; sexual citizenship; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Given the HIV/AIDS peak in the 1980s, Uganda has been hailed as a success story after having dramatically decreased the infection rate in the 2000s. However, the country’s HIV/AIDS rate has started to increase again in recent years. READ MORE

  3. 22. Looking Back : Racializing Assemblages and the Biopolitics of Resistance

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Filmvetenskap

    Author : Christian Rossipal; [2017]
    Keywords : copwatch; counter-surveillance; sousveillance; race; biopolitics; embodiment; corporeality;

    Abstract : The topic of this thesis is the biopolitics of video activism vis-à-vis racialized police violence. It is written against the backdrop of recent developments in the critique of two central concepts in field of biopolitics, namely Giorgio Agamben’s bare life and Michel Foucault’s biopower. Offsetting their respective framework, Alexander G. READ MORE

  4. 23. Refugee Biopolitics: A discourse analysis of the Swedish government’s recent shift in the speech on refugees

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för globala studier

    Author : Jakob Gometz; [2016-08-25]
    Keywords : Refugee; Sweden; biopolitics; biopower; bare life;

    Abstract : The increased movement of people across nation borders of recent years further complicates the relation between nationality and citizenship, thus challenging the nation state’s project of controlling its population. One group that perhaps provide the starkest contrast between birth and nation are refugees, who are forced to flee their homes and whose juridical status in practice is ambiguous. READ MORE

  5. 24. Development of a combined In-Cell ELISA and flow cytometry method for quantification of uptake of PEGylated nanoparticles by Raw264.7 and HepG2 cells

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Tillämpad biokemi

    Author : Evelina Folkesson; [2016]
    Keywords : HepG2; Raw264.7; PEGylation; PEG; cancer; nanoparticles; In-Cell ELISA; flow cytometry; applied biochemistry; tillämpad biokemi; Technology and Engineering;

    Abstract : Cancer is one of today’s most common causes of human mortality. For long, chemotherapeutics has been a conventional treatment of the disease, but due to its low precision and high frequency of side effects, this treatment has been highly debated. READ MORE

  6. 25. Risk-Efficient Portfolios; Estimation Error In Essence

    University essay from Mälardalens högskola/Akademin för utbildning, kultur och kommunikation

    Author : Daniel Adobah-Otchey; [2016]
    Keywords : Financial Engineering;

    Abstract : This thesis primarily looks at estimation error problems and other related issues arising in connection with portfolio optimization. With some available assets, a portfolio program or optimizer seeks to distribute a fixed amount of capital among these available assets to optimize some cost function. READ MORE