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"This book argues that the Russian thinker Petr Kropotkin's anarchism was a bio-political revolutionary project. It shows how Kropotkin drew on late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century European and Russian biosocial-medical scientific thought to the extent that ideas about health, sickness, insanity, degeneration, and hygiene were for him not metaphors, but rather key political concerns. It goes on to discuss how for Kropotkin's bio-political anarchism the state, capitalism, and revolution were medical concerns whose effects on the individual and society were measurable by social statistics and explainable by biosocial-medical knowledge. Overall, the book provides a refreshing, innovative approach to understanding Kropotkin's anarchism"--

Anarchism --- Biopolitics. --- Philosophy. --- Kropotkin, Petr Alekseevich,

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"The field of biopolitics encompasses issues from health and hygiene, birth rates, fertility and sexuality, life expectancy and demography, to eugenics and racial regimes. This book is the first to provide a comprehensive view on these issues for Central and Eastern Europe in the 20th century. The cataclysms of imperial collapse, World War(s) and the Holocaust but also the rise of state socialism after 1945 provided extraordinary and distinct conditions for the governing of life and death. The volume collects the latest research and empirical studies from the region to showcase the diversity of biopolitical regimes in their regional and global context - from hunger relief for Hungarian children after World War I to abortion legislation in communist Poland. It underlines the similarities as well, demonstrating how biopolitical strategies in this area often revolved around the notion of an endangered nation; and how ideological schemes and post-imperial experiences in Eastern Europe further complicate a "western" understanding of democratic participatory and authoritarian repressive biopolitics. The new geographical focus invites scholars and students of social and human sciences to reconsider established perspectives on the history of population management and the history of Europe"--

Population policy in literature. --- Biopolitics in literature. --- Europe, Central --- Europe, Eastern --- Population policy --- History

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What identity means in an algorithmic age: how it works, how our lives are controlled by it, and how we can resist it Algorithms are everywhere, organizing the near limitless data that exists in our world. Derived from our every search, like, click, and purchase, algorithms determine the news we get, the ads we see, the information accessible to us and even who our friends are. These complex configurations not only form knowledge and social relationships in the digital and physical world, but also determine who we are and who we can be, both on and offline. Algorithms create and recreate us, using our data to assign and reassign our gender, race, sexuality, and citizenship status. They can recognize us as celebrities or mark us as terrorists. In this era of ubiquitous surveillance, contemporary data collection entails more than gathering information about us. Entities like Google, Facebook, and the NSA also decide what that information means, constructing our worlds and the identities we inhabit in the process. We have little control over who we algorithmically are. Our identities are made useful not for us—but for someone else. Through a series of entertaining and engaging examples, John Cheney-Lippold draws on the social constructions of identity to advance a new understanding of our algorithmic identities. We Are Data will educate and inspire readers who want to wrest back some freedom in our increasingly surveilled and algorithmically-constructed world.

Digital media --- Social aspects --- Forecasting. --- Data. --- Identity. --- Policing. --- biopolitics. --- gender-related. --- gender. --- gendered. --- race. --- self-identity. --- surveillance.

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The Life of a Pest tracks the work practices of scientists in Mexico as they study flora and fauna at scales ranging from microscopic to ecosystemic. Amid concerns about climate change, infectious disease outbreaks, and biotechnology, scientists in Mexico have expanded the focus of biopolitics and biosecurity, looking beyond threats to human life to include threats to the animal, plant, and microbial worlds. Emily Wanderer outlines how concerns about biosecurity are leading scientists to identify populations and life-forms either as worthy of saving or as “pests” in need of elimination. Moving from high security labs where scientists study infectious diseases, to offices where ecologists regulate the use of genetically modified organisms, to remote islands where conservationists eradicate invasive species, Wanderer explores how scientific research informs, and is informed by, concepts of nation.

Social policy --- Ethnology. Cultural anthropology --- Nature protection --- Hygiene. Public health. Protection --- Mexico --- Biopolitics --- axolotl. --- biodiversity. --- biology. --- biopolitics. --- biosecurity. --- buen vivir. --- conservation. --- ecology. --- ecosystem. --- environment. --- environmentalism. --- geci. --- goats. --- guadalupe. --- immunology. --- invasive species. --- land management. --- latin america. --- mexico. --- mice. --- microbes. --- microbiology. --- native species. --- nature. --- nonfiction. --- nonhuman animals. --- pollution. --- salamander. --- science. --- virus. --- vivir bien. --- vivir mejor. --- whalers. --- wildlife. --- zoology.

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Mehr Kinder, mehr Arbeit, mehr Wirtschaftswachstum? Die Novellierung des Bundeselterngeld- und Elternzeitgesetzes 2007 gilt als wichtige familienpolitische Zäsur: Mehr Erwerbsanreize, eine verkürzte Bezugsdauer des Elterngeldes und »Partnermonate« stellten wichtige Veränderungen dar. Mit den Familienberichten der Bundesregierung und Interviewmaterial einer Studie zu Vätern in Elternzeit fragt Benjamin Neumann mit geschlechtertheoretisch-gouvernementalem Blick nach Verschiebungen familienpolitischer Rationalität und damit verbundenen Subjektivationsprozessen. Dabei wird deutlich, wie Vereinbarkeitsdiskurse bis in die elterlichen Selbstverhältnisse hineinreichen. Besprochen in: www.fachportal-paedagogik.de, 8 (2020)

Elternzeit; Eltern; Elterngeld; Geschlecht; Gouvernementalität; Familie; Familienbild; Familienpolitik; Selbstverhältnis; Biopolitik; Deutschland; Sozialität; Familiensoziologie; Sozialpolitik; Soziologische Theorie; Soziologie; Parental Leave; Parents; Parent Allowance; Gender; Governmentality; Family; Family Picture; Self-relationship; Biopolitics; Germany; Social Relations; Sociology of Family; Social Policy; Sociological Theory; Sociology --- Biopolitics. --- Family Picture. --- Family. --- Gender. --- Germany. --- Governmentality. --- Parent Allowance. --- Parents. --- Self-relationship. --- Social Policy. --- Social Relations. --- Sociological Theory. --- Sociology of Family. --- Sociology.