On the threshold of the living subject -- A genealogy of perinatal mortality -- Health beyond risk : a midwifery ethos in prenatal care -- Legal fiction and reality effects : evidence of perinatal risk -- Child welfare at the perinatal threshold : making orders protecting fetuse…
"In Pregnancy, Risk and Biopolitics Lorna Weir argues that the displacement of birth as the threshold of the living subject occurred in the 1950s with the novel concept of "perinatal mortality" referring to death of either the fetus or the newborn just prior to, during and after…
This book critiques the relation between sovereignty and democracy. Across nine theses, Vardoulakis argues that sovereignty asserts its power by establishing exclusions: the sovereign excluding other citizens from power and excludes refugees and immigrants from citizenship. With…
This volume brings together essays by different generations of Italian thinkers which address, whether in affirmative, problematizing or genealogical registers, the entanglement of philosophical speculation and political proposition within recent Italian thought. Nihilism and bi…
Historical events have persitent effects on contemporary economic development. This paper studies a natural experiment of ethnic segregation. In its colonial foundation, the city of Guadalajara, Mexico, was divided into two kinds of settlements: one for the Spaniards and one for…
After the severe landslides that affected Rio de Janeiro in April 2010, causing 67 deaths, the city authorities implemented what they called “a paradigm shift” in responding to disasters. This new approach, which echoes international discourses on urban resilience, builds on the…
In this dissertation, I trace the changes in the US military’s health engagement practices in Africa from the beginning of the Cold War through to the current global war on terror. My project reveals trends in the overlaps between military and humanitarian networks and highlight…
