Essays about: "bio-power"

Showing result 6 - 8 of 8 essays containing the word bio-power.

  1. 6. Informed in and through difference: The perspectives of Johannesburg's suburban reservists and their role in the SAPS

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School

    Author : Claudia Forster-Towne; [2013]
    Keywords : Police; reservist; inequalities; articulated categories; subjectivity; South Africa; Johannesburg; South African Police Service; SAPS; identity; inequality regime; situated psychoanalysis; bio-power; gender; race; class; Social Sciences; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : Despite a fair amount of academic attention being afforded to the South African Police Service (SAPS), one actor within it has been constantly ignored. Considering reservists make in excess of 15% of the overall policing staff (albeit only as temporary staff) in Gauteng this gap is surprising. READ MORE

  3. 7. Swedish Obesity Specialists : Obesity and its Treatment at a Specialist Clinic in Stockholm

    University essay from Socialantropologiska institutionen

    Author : Mia Forrest; [2009]
    Keywords : Obesity; medical expertise; global assemblages; governance; lifestyle alteration;

    Abstract : Swedish Obesity Specialists examines how obesity is conceptualized as a medical condition by the staff working at an obesity clinic in Stockholm Sweden. Through eight weeks of participant observations and eight semi-structured interviews this thesis answers the question of how specialist working in the field of obesity construct obesity as a medical site. READ MORE

  4. 8. A step "not" beyond ethnicity in Rwanda: Political mythology and social identity: Report from a Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency Minor Field Study, October - December 1999

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Sociologi

    Author : Stefan Andersson; [2001]
    Keywords : Sociology; Sociologi; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : The aim of this work is to study present Rwandan social identities. The aim is made operational by posing the question; how are group identities produced and reproduced in Rwanda? In order to answer this the study uses the bourdieuesian notion of habitus, incorporated products of history that are active principles for unification of practices and representations, as the analytical concept of social identity. READ MORE