Essays about: "concept of biopolitics"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 12 essays containing the words concept of biopolitics.

  1. 1. The Kampala Convention vs. Bare Life : A Qualitative Analysis of the Kampala Convention and its Impact on IDPs’ Quality of Life

    University essay from Försvarshögskolan

    Author : Clara Ternström; [2024]
    Keywords : Kampala Convention; bare life; IDPs; quality of life; legislation; biopolitics; displacement;

    Abstract : This study aims to identify potential ways in which the African Union Convention for the Protection and Assistance of Internally Displaced Persons in Africa (Kampala Convention) improves the quality of life for IDPs. Relying on the concept of bare life, it answers if and how the convention prevents bare life. READ MORE

  3. 2. Power dynamics and order formation in mobile MOBA games : a Foucauldian analysis of "Honor of Kings"

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap; Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kommunikation och medier

    Author : Shuaijun Zhang; [2023]
    Keywords : Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Video games can be seen as a media that immerses players. The formation of a good game order is an important guarantee for players to engage in electronic games. This paper selects the most popular mobile MOBA game in China, "Honor of Kings," as the research object to analyze the formation process of the game order. READ MORE

  4. 3. EUROPE 2020: TOWARDS A NEOLIBERAL GOVERNMENTALITY? Neoliberal Dreams and Diffractive Awakenings

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper

    Author : Georgios Eleftherios Vordos; [2020-12-28]
    Keywords : Europe 2020; neoliberalism; biopolitics; diffraction; critical frame analysis; governmentality; European Union; inclusive growth;

    Abstract : Purpose: The purpose of this thesis is to examine whether the Europe 2020 strategy is of neoliberal nature and aims to adjust every aspect of life to be market-conforming. Furthermore, it examines if the target for an inclusive growth was achieved and who ended up benefitted from it. READ MORE

  5. 4. The Brexit Subject : Cognitive Capitalism and Biopolitical Production in Post-Referendum Fiction

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Author : Emma Flodqvist; [2020]
    Keywords : Brexit Fiction; Brexit Literature; BrexLit; Autumn; Middle England; The Cockroach; Perfidious Albion; The Friends of Harry Perkins; The Wall; The Cut; Cognitive Capitalism; Immaterial Labour; Creative Labour; Cultural Labour; Gig Economy; Biopower; Biopolitics; Biopolitical Production; Bioproduction; Subjectivity; Precarity; Casualization; Subject Formation; Patriotism; Collectivism; Individualism.;

    Abstract : This thesis explores precarization of work and subject formation in seven post-referendum Brexit novels through theories of cognitive capitalism and biopolitical production. The analysis is anchored in Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri’s reconceptualization of Michel Foucault’s notion of biopolitics. READ MORE

  6. 5. International biopolitics and “climate refugees” as bare life. A Critical Discourse Analysis of how the UN’s framing of “climate refugees” impacts climate related global humanitarian migration and refugee governance

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

    Author : Merle Emrich; [2020]
    Keywords : climate refugees; climate change; migration; United Nations; poststructuralism; anthropocene; Critical Discourse Analysis; biopolitics;

    Abstract : This thesis investigates how the United Nations’ (UN) framing of “climate refugees” impacts global humanitarian migration and refugee governance in the context of anthropogenic climate change in which border zones become spaces of biopolitical decision making which impacts both governance strategies and International Relations as an academic field. It argues from a poststructuralist perspective that the UN’s discourse centred around climate change related human movement, the issue of “climate refugees” is downplayed, and “climate refugees” become bare life while their claims to legal protection are delegitimised. READ MORE