Deadly biocultures : the ethics of life-making /
"This book project intends to serve as a course adoption book unpacking theories of biopolitical life-making and death-making, with chapters dedicated to specific objects that ostensibly affirm life (and argue for life's inextricable links to capital), but that ultimately reify a politics...
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| Main Authors: | , |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
2019
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | "This book project intends to serve as a course adoption book unpacking theories of biopolitical life-making and death-making, with chapters dedicated to specific objects that ostensibly affirm life (and argue for life's inextricable links to capital), but that ultimately reify a politics of death and erasure. Specific objects, such as the pink Kommen Foundation-branded handgun, the 'super user' of health care resources, and fat cells allow the authors to discuss the political junctures at which determinations of healthy and unhealthy, life and death, are made"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 242 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781452960500 145296050X 1452960496 9781452960494 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 10, 2020). |
