Biosocial and Biopolitical Interfaces
Biosocial and Biopolitical Interfaces

Author: Denisa Kera

Publisher:

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 11

ISBN-13:

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Personal genomics using web 2.0 platforms and the rise of interaction over DNA profiles challenge our notions of design and HCI by confronting us with various biopolitical and biosocial issues discussed in Science Technology and Society (STS) studies and contemporary continental philosophy. What will this increasing interaction between the biological, social and political aspects of our existence over online platforms bring? How to negotiate the different notions of the subject, user and the human in the disciplines (STS, HCI and philosophy) that converge in the case of biopolitical and biosocial interfaces? How will the availability of DNA data over different platforms and interfaces change our understanding of human subjects, community but also of user needs? How will the biopolitical and biosocial interfaces redefine our understanding of design when confronted with larger political and social questions involved in these biosocial and biopolitical experiments?

Biosocial Becomings
Biosocial Becomings

Author: Tim Ingold

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2013-06-13

Total Pages: 291

ISBN-13: 110702563X

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Going beyond the division of nature and society, this unique book explores human life as a process of biosocial becoming.

After Childhood
After Childhood

Author: Peter Kraftl

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-03-23

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 1351614800

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This book offers a new approach for theorising and undertaking childhood research. It combines insights from childhood and generational studies with object-oriented ontologies, new materialisms, critical race and gender theories to address a range of key, intractable challenges facing children and young people. Bringing together traditional social-scientific research methods with techniques from digital media studies, archaeology, environmental nanoscience and the visual arts, After Childhood: Re-thinking Environment, Materiality and Media in Children's Lives presents a way of doing childhood research that sees children move in and out of focus. In doing so, children and their experiences are not completely displaced; rather, new perspectives on concerns facing children around the world are unravelled which dominant approaches to childhood studies have not yet fully addressed. The book draws on the author’s detailed case studies from his research in historical and geographical contexts. Examples range from British children’s engagement with plastics, energy and other matter, to the positioning of diverse Brazilian young people in environmental and resource challenges, and from archaeological evidence about childhoods in the USA and Europe to the global circulation of children’s toys through digital media. The book will appeal to human geographers, sociologists, anthropologists, education studies scholars and others working in the interdisciplinary field of childhood studies, as well as to anyone looking for a range of novel, interdisciplinary frames for thinking about childhood.

Childhood and Biopolitics
Childhood and Biopolitics

Author: N. Lee

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2013-10-01

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 1137317183

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Will the future be a climate disaster? Will biotechnologies bring huge improvements to lifespan? Predictions vary, but children's status as human embodiments of the future puts them at the centre of attempts to shape the world and the discipline of childhood studies can therefore make a critical and creative contribution to future-making.

#Help
#Help

Author: Fleur Johns

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2023-02-14

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 0197648878

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Like many other areas of life, humanitarian practice and thinking are being transformed by information and communications technology. Despite this, the growing digitization of humanitarianism has been a relatively unnoticed dimension of global order. Based on more than seven years of data collection and interdisciplinary research, #Help presents a ground-breaking study of digital humanitarianism and its ramifications for international law and politics. Global problems and policies are being reconfigured, regulated, and addressed through digital interfaces developed for humanitarian ends. #Help analyses how populations, maps, and emergencies take shape on the global plane when given digital form and explores the reorientation of nation states' priorities and practices of governing around digital data collection imperatives. This book also illuminates how the growing prominence of digital interfaces in international humanitarian work is sustained and shaped by law and policy. #Help reveals new vectors of global inequality and new forms of global relation taking effect in the here and now. To understand how major digital platforms are seeking to extend their serviceable lives, and to see how global order might take shape in the future, it is essential to grasp the perils and possibilities of digital humanitarianism. #Help will transform thinking about what is at stake in the use of digital interfaces in the humanitarian field and about how, where, and for whom we are making the global order of tomorrow.

Biosocial Matters
Biosocial Matters

Author: Maurizio Meloni

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Published: 2016-06-07

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781119236511

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Biosocial Matters: Rethinking the Sociology-Biology Relations in the Twenty-First Century features a collection of readings from scholars on the vanguard of a reframing of biology/society debates within the sociological disciplines. Brings together voices who are contributing to a reframing of the biology/sociology debate within sociology and sister disciplines such as anthropology, history, and philosophy Gathers theoretical and historically-oriented contributions to gain an understanding of the current renegotiation of the biological/social boundaries Presents in-depth analyses of two frontiers of ongoing biology/sociology debates: epigenetics and neuroscience Reveals how a new biosocial terrain can revitalize both sociology and the biological imagination

The Quantification of Bodies in Health
The Quantification of Bodies in Health

Author: Btihaj Ajana

Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing

Published: 2021-12-06

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 1800718837

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The Quantification of Bodies in Health aims to deepen understanding of the quantification of the body and of the role of self-tracking practices in everyday life. It brings together authors working at the intersection of philosophy, sociology, history, psychology, and digital culture.

Political Biology
Political Biology

Author: M. Meloni

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-05-25

Total Pages: 295

ISBN-13: 1137377720

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This book explores the socio-political implications of human heredity from the second half of the nineteenth century to the present postgenomic moment. It addresses three main phases in the politicization of heredity: the peak of radical eugenics (1900-1945), characterized by an aggressive ethos of supporting the transformation of human society via biological knowledge; the repositioning, after 1945, of biological thinking into a liberal-democratic, human rights framework; and the present postgenomic crisis in which the genome can no longer be understood as insulated from environmental signals. In Political Biology, Maurizio Meloni argues that thanks to the ascendancy of epigenetics we may be witnessing a return to soft heredity - the idea that these signals can cause changes in biology that are themselves transferable to succeeding generations. This book will be of great interest to scholars across science and technology studies, the philosophy and history of science, and political and social theory.

Biosocial Worlds
Biosocial Worlds

Author: Jens Seeberg

Publisher: UCL Press

Published: 2020-09-29

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 1787358232

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Biosocial Worlds presents state-of-the-art contributions to anthropological reflections on the porous boundaries between human and non-human life – biosocial worlds. Based on changing understandings of biology and the social, it explores what it means to be human in these worlds. Growing separation of scientific disciplines for more than a century has maintained a separation of the ‘natural’ and the ‘social’ that has created a space for projections between the two. Such projections carry a directional causality and so constitute powerful means to establish discursive authority. While arguing against the separation of the biological and the social in the study of human and non-human life, it remains important to unfold the consequences of their discursive separation. Based on examples from Botswana, Denmark, Mexico, the Netherlands, Uganda, the UK and USA, the volume explores what has been created in the space between ‘the social’ and ‘the natural’, with a view to rethink ‘the biosocial’. Health topics in the book include diabetes, trauma, cancer, HIV, tuberculosis, prevention of neonatal disease and wider issues of epigenetics. Many of the chapters engage with constructions of health and disease in a wide range of environments, and engage with analysis of the concept of ‘environment’. Anthropological reflection and ethnographic case studies explore how ‘health’ and ‘environment’ are entangled in ways that move their relation beyond interdependence to one of inseparability. The subtitle of this volume captures these insights through the concept of ‘health environment’, seeking to move the engagement of anthropology and biology beyond deterministic projections.