Essays about: "bio-politics"

Found 3 essays containing the word bio-politics.

  1. 1. Bare Life of Unaccompanied Children: A Critique on the Human Rights State-Centrism and the Right to Asylum in Sweden

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för globala studier

    Author : Hamidreza Vasheghanifarahani; [2018-09-25]
    Keywords : state-centrism; the right to asylum; Sweden’s U-turn asylum policy; rightlessness; zone of indistinction; bare life; the paradox of human rights; the sovereign; policy analysis; unaccompanied Afghanistanian children; bio-politics;

    Abstract : The question of asylum seekers and refugee rights is one of the main examples which reveals the paradox of the citizen rights and human rights. This thesis aims to analyse the U-turn asylum policy of Sweden regarding unaccompanied minors from a critical perspective in this regard. READ MORE

  3. 2. The Eloquence of Speechlessness : Hybridity, Sexed Bodies, and Astonishment in Kant’s Theory of Epigenesis

    University essay from Institutionen för idé- och lärdomshistoria

    Author : Jens Eriksson; [2008]
    Keywords : Immanuel Kant 1724-1804 ; epigenesis; astonishment; weirdness; hybridity; manliness; masculinity; gender; sex difference; republicanism; bio-politics; horticulture; life science; vitalism; teleology; Bildung; organization.;

    Abstract : Keywords: Immanuel Kant ( narratives in European naturalism and political anatomy. Yet the concept surfaces in gender historical research on the period in foot notes and cursory remarks. This paper interrogates why epigenesis has been eradicated from the historical consciousness of today’s scholarship on gender politics. READ MORE

  4. 3. Risk and Responsibility in the GMO Discourse

    University essay from Centrum för tillämpad etik

    Author : Anders Johansson; [2003]
    Keywords : Ethics; Risk; responsibility; GMO; moral responsibility; biotechnology; public perception; legal regulation; science; companies; consumers; society.; Etik;

    Abstract : An application of biotechnology that has been rapidly matured under the last ten years is genetically modified food. The deliberative release of GMO faces the challenge of complying with sustainable development and implies a precautionary approach to all possible risk involved. READ MORE