Essays about: "biopower"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 45 essays containing the word biopower.

1. 21. “It’s so much more than just sports…” : a study of public health in the municipalities of Hultsfred and Vimmerby

   University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural Development

   Author : Emma Sahlström; [2018]
   Keywords : public health; health discourse; biopolitics; governmentality;

   Abstract : This thesis investigates how the public health discourse takes its expression in the municipalities of Vimmerby and Hultsfred, as health has become an imperative guiding the conduct of everyday life. In the understanding of public health having both political and symbolic dimensions, the theoretical framework of Foucault and the concepts of governmentality and biopower are applied to the empirical material by means of qualitative research methods. READ MORE

3. 22. ”Human uses carefully managed” : A critical discourse analysis of the Chagos Marine Protected Area

   University essay from Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för tema

   Author : Axel Hallgren; [2018]
   Keywords : large-scale marine protected areas; political ecology; biopolitics; human-nature relationship; territorialization; critical discourse analysis; chagos marine protected area;

   Abstract : The large marine protected area (MPA) declared in 2010 around the Chagos Archipelago, also known as the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT), has led to a conflict in the thick of environmental protection, colonialism, sovereignty claims, and the human rights dispute of the Chagossian people that once were exiled from the islands in the 1970s. By applying a Foucauldian inspired critical discourse analysis, this study interprets and examines how the nature/human relationship was portrayed during and after the creation of the Chagos MPA. READ MORE

4. 23. Life or Death: Biopower and Racism in Huxley´s Brave New World

   University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Engelska

   Author : Erik Illerhag; [2018]
   Keywords : Brave New World; Aldous Huxley; Biopower; Eugenics; Michel Foucault; Racism;

   Abstract : Aldous Huxley´s Brave New World describes how a totalitarian power has taken control over both body and mind of the whole population. A hierarchical caste system, where a person´s role in society is predetermined long before birth, maintains stability together with brain-washing methods and propaganda. READ MORE

5. 24. SOFT POWER - The Intercultural Bilingual Education policy as a window onto larger processes of governance

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Socialantropologi

   Author : Elin Bergner; [2018]
   Keywords : Social anthropology; policy; EIB; Andean Nations; Governmentality; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : This study looks into Intercultural Bilingual Education among the Indigenous Peoples of the Andes. Using the policy as a vantage point it shows the interconnectedness of the different parts of a larger network of processes influencing it. READ MORE

6. 25. Biochar production integration into Phoenix BioPower BTC technology

   University essay from KTH/Energiteknik

   Author : Àurea Solé Carulla; [2018]
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   Abstract : Phoenix BioPowers teknik BTC (Biomass fired TopCycle) integrerar förgasning av biomassa som ett försteg till en TopCycle högtrycksgasturbin. Dessutom injiceras ånga tillsammans med produktgasen i förbränningen, för att uppnå hög effektivitet samt minskar de totala kostnaderna samtidigt som tekniken erbjuder kontrollerbar och pålitlig förnybar kraft. READ MORE