books about: biopolitics     books:     Biopolitics      Politics, Metaphysics, and Death: Essays on Giorgio Agamben's Homo Sacer Duke University Press, 2005 The Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben is having an increasingly significant impact on Anglo-American political theory. His most prominent intervention to date is the powerful reassessment of sovereignty and the politics of life and death laid out in his multivolume Homo Sacer project. Agamben argues that in both the modern world and the ...             The Biopolitics of Breast Cancer: Changing Cultures of Disease and Activism Maren Klawiter Univ Of Minnesota Press, 2008 For nearly forty years, feminists and patient activists have argued that medicine is a deeply individualizing and depoliticizing institution. According to this view, medical practices are incidental to people?s transformation from patients to patient activists. The Biopolitics of Breast Cancer turns this understanding upside down.   Maren ...             Bios: Biopolitics and Philosophy (Posthumanities) Roberto Esposito Univ Of Minnesota Press, 2008 Roberto Esposito is one of the most prolific and important exponents of contemporary Italian political theory. Bíos -his first book to be translated into English-builds on two decades of highly regarded thought, including his thesis that the modern individual-with all of its civil and political rights as well as its moral powers-is an attempt to ...             The Biopolitics of the War on Terror: Life Struggles, Liberal Modernity and the Defence of Logistical ... Julian Reid Manchester University Press, 2007 This is a book which completely overturns existing understandings of the origins and futures of the War on Terror for the purposes of International Relations theory. As the author shows, this is not a war in defence of the integrity of human life against an enemy defined simply by a contradictory will for the destruction of human life as commonly ...             Bodies of Difference: Experiences of Disability and Institutional Advocacy in the Making of Modern China Matthew Kohrman University of California Press, 2005 Bodies of Difference chronicles the compelling story of disability's emergence as an area of significant sociopolitical activity in contemporary China. Keenly attentive to how bodies are embedded in discourse, history, and personal exigency, Matthew Kohrman details ways that disability became a fount for the production of institutions and ...             Global Health: Why Cultural Perceptions, Social Representations, and Biopolitics Matter Mark Nichter University of Arizona Press, 2008 In this lesson-packed book, Mark Nichter, one of the world?s leading medical anthropologists, summarizes what more than a quarter-century of health social science research has contributed to international health and elucidates what social science research can contribute to global health and the study of biopolitics in the future. Nichter focuses ...             Chinese Modernity and Global Biopolitics: Studies in Literature and Visual Culture H Lu Sheldon University of Hawaii Press, 2007 This ambitious work is a multimedia, interdisciplinary study of Chinese modernity in the context of globalization from the late nineteenth century to the present. Sheldon Lu draws on Chinese literature, film, art, photography, and video to broadly map the emergence of modern China in relation to the capitalist world-system in the economic, ...             Tactical Biopolitics: Art, Activism, and Technoscience (Leonardo Books) The MIT Press, 2008 Popular culture in this "biological century" seems to feed on proliferating fears, anxieties, and hopes around the life sciences at a time when such basic concepts as scientific truth, race and gender identity, and the human itself are destabilized in the public eye. Tactical Biopolitics suggests that the political challenges at the intersection ...             The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at the College de France, 1978-1979 (Lectures at the College de France) Michel Foucault Palgrave Macmillan, 2008 Must Read These lectures demonstrate persuasively that the attempt to master life, especially human life, is not the legacy of Nazism or sci-fi nightmares, but the spontaneous consequence of economic liberalism in its modern form. The idea that government should intervene in ...             Governing China's Population: From Leninist to Neoliberal Biopolitics Susan Greenhalgh, Edwin Winckler Stanford University Press, 2005 China?s giant project in social engineering has drawn worldwide attention, both because of its coercive enforcement of strict birth limits, and because of the striking changes that have occurred in China?s population: one of the fastest fertility declines in modern history and a gender gap among infants that is the highest in the world. These ...             Foucault in an Age of Terror: Essays on Biopolitics and the Defence of Society Palgrave Macmillan, 2008             The Political Animal: Biology, Ethics and Politics Stephen R Clark Routledge, 1999 In The Political Animal Stephen Clark investigates the political nature of the human animal. Based on biological science and traditional ethics, he probes into areas of inquiry that are usually ignored by traditional political theory. He suggests that properly informed political philosophy must take the role of women and children more seriously, ...             Translation, Biopolitics, Colonial Difference (Traces) Hong Kong University Press, 2006 The fourth book in the Traces series brings together an international group of authors to focus on the problems of translation at the crossroads between economics, ontology, and politics in the globalizing world today. Naoki Sakai is a professor of comparative literature and Asian studies at Cornell University. Jon Solomon is an assistant ...             The Nature of Politics Roger D. Masters Yale University Press, 1989 Worth a Reread This book was published almost 15 years ago, but it remains relevant today. For those who read it when it first came out, it's worth a reread. For those who aren't familiar with this volume, take a look at it for the first time. Roger Masters is ambitious in his ...             Darwinian Politics: The Evolutionary Origin of Freedom (Rutgers Series on Human Evolution) Paul, H. Rubin Rutgers University Press, 2002 A must read. As I write this there are two intellectual revolutions that I am glad to say are quickly spreading and gaining momentum(they are a must for the continued prosperity of mankind). One is evolutionary psychology. Anyone who has not read a book by Dawkins(The Selfish Gene, ...          products you might be interested in search for books evolutionary, institutional, posthumanities, reappraising, representations, technoscience      toavi.com    web we recommend Must Read randomly chosen book: Stop the 401(k) Rip-off!: Eliminate Costly Hidden Fees to Improve Your Life