Sökning: "biopolitical"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 13 avhandlingar innehållade ordet biopolitical.
1. Self-tracking, datafication and the biopolitical prosumption of life
Sammanfattning : The marketing literature has both celebrated and critically scrutinised the active engagement of consumers in value-creation processes. These opposing analyses share a focus on the mobilisation of consumers’ social and cognitive abilities for value creation. LÄS MER
2. The Political Dimension of Place Branding
Sammanfattning : Place branding is commonly understood as the application of marketing and commercial ideas, strategies, measurements and logic to the realm of places such as cities, regions and nations. Nevertheless, place branding is also understood as the locus where political activities – imbued with political impact and political effects – appear and affect the soft and hard infrastructures of urban agglomeration and other spatial environments. LÄS MER
3. Climatised Moves : Climate-induced Migration and the Politics of Environmental Discourse
Sammanfattning : This work seeks to de-naturalise climate-induced migration (CM). Combining political ecology and post-foundational theories, I read CM as a construct that reifies a series of phenomena into an issue to be researched and governed. LÄS MER
4. The Use of Hope: Biopolitics of Security During the Obama Presidency
Sammanfattning : Through a compilation of four research articles, this PhD thesis investigates ‘hope’ as a biopolitical technology. It interrogates the use of hope by the United States security apparatus, on the one hand, to pre-empt processes of radicalisation and, on the other hand, to prepare the subject of security to cope with permanent insecurity. LÄS MER
5. The Biopolitics of Water: Technology, Subjectivity and Lifestyle in eThekwini Municipality, South Africa
Sammanfattning : Water issues have for a long time been of central political concern in South Africa due to the scarcity of the resource. During the apartheid era, the distribution of water was deeply intertwined with a nationalist and racist agenda. LÄS MER
