Biopolitical bordering: Enacting populations as intelligible objects of government:
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In this article, the authors argue that these discussio... argue that the discussion of how to interpret and use biopolitics has been fiercely debated, usually in highly generalized terms.Abstract:
Since Foucault introduced the notion of biopolitics, it has been fiercely debated—usually in highly generalized terms—how to interpret and use this concept. This article argues that these discussio...read more
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Enacting criminal futures: data practices and crime prevention
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Data Practices: Making Up a European People
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors developed a conception of data practices to analyze and interpret findings from collaborative ethnographic multisite fieldwork conducted by an interdisciplinary team of social science researchers as part of a five-year project, Peopling Europe: How Data Make a People, focusing on data practices that involve establishing and assigning people to categories and how this matters in enacting Europe as a population and people.
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From 'if-then' to 'what if?' Rethinking healthcare algorithmics with posthuman speculative ethics.
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The Politics of Life Itself
TL;DR: The biological existence of human beings has become political in novel ways as mentioned in this paper, and the object, target and stake of this new 'vital' politics are human life itself, which has become one of the most important sites for ethical judgements and techniques.
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Border as Method, or, the Multiplication of Labor
Sandro Mezzadra,Brett Neilson +1 more
TL;DR: The Proliferation of Borders as mentioned in this paper is a seminal work in the field of political science that explores the role of borders in the formation and evolution of the modern world. But it does not address the problem of border control.
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A Sociology of Quantification
TL;DR: The authors analyzed quantification as a general sociological phenomenon and called for an ethics of numbers, drawing on scholarship across the social sciences in Europe and North America as well as humanistic inquiry.