Essays about: "biopower"

Showing result 26 - 30 of 45 essays containing the word biopower.

  1. 26. Power Nap: Visualising sleep and neoliberal governmentality

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för konsthistoria och visuella studier

    Author : Eilidh Urquhart; [2018]
    Keywords : Neoliberalism; sleep; governmentality; reality TV; quantified self; self-tracking; biopolitics; time; Cultural Sciences;

    Abstract : This thesis explores how representations of sleep and sleeplessness in mass culture can be reflective of shifts in the constitution of time and self-image driven by neoliberal capitalism, using Shattered, a reality TV show and Sleep Cycle, a self-tracking app, as points of analysis. The first part of the thesis introduces various discourses around sleep, optimisation and productivity that exist in present day late capitalism, and authors and theorists who have studied them. READ MORE

  3. 27. Struggling over Rights of Romani EU Migrants - An Inquiry into Biopower in the Case of the Eviction of the Sorgenfri Camp in Malmö, Sweden

    University essay from Malmö högskola/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Author : Johanna Dieskau; [2017]
    Keywords : Roma; Human Rights; European Union; Migration; Foucault; biopower; subjectivity; Sweden;

    Abstract : In 2015, local authorities in Malmö, Sweden, evicted an informal settlement, the Sorgenfri Camp, in which mostly Romani EU migrants were living. No housing alternatives were offered. Critics saw this as a human rights violation, but the municipality found that the people were not entitled to the rights in question. READ MORE

  4. 28. THE BIOPOLITICS OF DOMESTIC WORK AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE FEMALE 'OTHER' : REIMAGINING SPACES, LABOR, AND REPRESENTATIONS OF LIVE-IN DOMESTIC WORKERS IN FILM

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Filmvetenskap

    Author : Zoi Kourtoglou; [2017]
    Keywords : Cinema; biopower; biopolitics; maids; Antonio Negri; Michael Hardt; domestic space; heterotopia; Michel Foucault; immaterial labor; resistance; Emmanuel Levinas;

    Abstract : Representations of female characters in cinema have the effect of othering the female in front of the viewer’s gaze. Women’s characters are constructed along the lines of their gender and race difference. READ MORE

  5. 29. Subversive Care : An Intersectional Analyses of Nursing as Affective Labor

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Tema Genus

    Author : Maria Carmela Morrone; [2017]
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    Abstract : Nursing and intersectionality is yet an under-explored field of research. This study is a tentative of reflecting about the interconnections between the care process in health settings such as mental health and end-of-life care, body experience and multiple aspects of health, discrimination and hierarchies in the medical setting. READ MORE

  6. 30. 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