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The Law of Cryonics
This book, through the lens of interdisciplinary legal analysis, draws a subtle balance between bioethics and financial regulation, with the latter playing an unexpectedly crucial role in the way life may potentially be governed. The legal topic of human preservation or cryoconservation was initially developed in the United States in the case of Donaldson v. van de Kamp. More recently, the subject arose in Europe as a result of a decision of the High Court, Family Division, London. This new theme of cryoconservation has unfolded through multifaceted forms, including its impact on regulation. In an area that may, at least prima facie, be regarded as belonging to the traditional realm of medic...
The Government of Things
"Critically engaging with some limitations of new materialist scholarship, Lemke draws on Foucault's concept of a "government of things" to propose a relational understanding of political ontologies"--
Spectrality and Survivance
The notion of the Anthropocene is founded on the premise that traces of human activity on the earth will remain legible in the geological strata for millions of years to come, showing evidence of an anthropogenic ‘signature’ inscribed in the rock by the human species. Spectrality and Survivance shows how embedded in this understanding of the Anthropocene is a speculative and specular gesture that transforms the notion of the future into an anthropocentric reflection of the present, prohibiting any true engagement with the possibility of a non-anthropocentric and post-anthropocenic world. In this volume, Marija Grech develops an alternative conceptual paradigm from which to think the Anthropocene beyond any limited notion of human language, human thought, human systems of meaning, or even a human world. Grech considers how the geological trace of the Anthropocene might be said to ‘survive’ outside of the possibility of any human readership, and how the very survival of the human in and beyond the Anthropocene might necessitate such thought.
Foucault's Analysis of Modern Governmentality
Tracking the development of Foucault's key concepts Lemke offers the most comprehensive and systematic account of Michel Foucault's work on power and government from 1970 until his death in 1984. He convincingly argues, using material that has only partly been translated into English, that Foucault's concern with ethics and forms of subjectivation is always already integrated into his political concerns and his analytics of power. The book also shows how the concept of government was taken up in different lines of research in France before it gave rise to "governmentality studies" in the Anglophone world. Foucault's Analysis of Modern Governmentality provides a clear and well-structured exposition that is theoretically challenging but also accessible for a wider audience. Thus, the book can be read both as an original examination of Foucault's concept of government and as a general introduction to his "genealogy of power."
Leben Regieren
Die Covid-19-Pandemie und die ökologischen Krisen haben in den vergangenen Jahren eindrucksvoll die tiefgreifende Verwobenheit von Natur, Technologie und Gesellschaft verdeutlicht. Vor diesem Hintergrund machen die Beiträge dieses Bandes das Verhältnis von Natur und Kultur, Diskurs und Materialität zum Gegenstand sozialwissenschaftlicher Reflexionen. Orientiert an der Machtanalytik Michel Foucaults, Ansätzen der Wissenschafts- und Technikforschung sowie feministischen und postkolonialen Debatten gehen die Autor:innen der Frage nach, was Leben und dessen Regierung im 21. Jahrhundert ausmacht. Sie beleuchten anhand einer Vielzahl empirischer Phänomene die mannigfaltigen Zugriffe, Durchdrungenheiten und Artikulationen regierten Lebens. Dabei bringt der Band internationale Diskussionen um menschliches und »mehr-als-menschliches« Leben in einen produktiven Dialog mit Traditionslinien kritischer Theorie.
Amongst Aliens and Ghosts
As a new conservation paradigm, rewilding is quickly gaining popularity across Scotland. Against the urgencies of the Anthropocene, rewilding projects offer hope by imagining radical visions of biodiverse futures that promise liveability not just to humans but a large host of species. Based on multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Scotland, this study explores the diverse multispecies temporalities that come to matter within rewilding. Scottish rewilding landscapes are populated by various beings and absences that blur rigid categorisations of linear temporality into past, present, and future. The ghosts of extirpated species continue to shape the becoming of landscapes, and the unruly presence of invasive alien species complicate the convivial ethics of rewilding initiatives. Following the temporal entanglements of various Scottish beasts, this book describes the interconnections between time, death, and belonging in storied landscapes.
Pfarrergeschichte von Niederzwehren
Pfarrer sind in der Regel Individualisten, die jedoch das Ganze ihrer Gemeinde im Auge haben sollten. Das kann man in diesem Band studieren. Beispielsweise an Johann Hesse, der die hessische Kirche notgedrungen durch den Strudel des "Interims" steuern musste; an Franz David Prescher, der (wohl als Plagiator) die Theorie eines Luftschiffes entwickelt hat; an dem Hugenotten Charles Theodor Faucher, der für Hessen ein wichtiges Gesangbuch zusammen-stellte; oder an dem "Metropoltrian" Gottfried Ritter, dessen fünf Söhne das christliche Volks-hochschulwesen in Hessen, die Geschichtswissenschaften, die Theologie, die Orientalistik und die Industrie entscheidend prägten. Außerdem wird die Verflochtenheit der Ortsgemeinde mit den politischen Gegebenheiten sichtbar, in dem Dorf Niederzwehren (1936 in die Stadt Kassel eingemeindet) besonders deutlich durch die jahrhundertelange Verbindung mit dem Kloster Kaufungen sowie den Einfluss der Ritterfamilie von Twern.
Monitoring Pandemic Preparedness
How well are countries prepared for the next pandemic? And how to measure and evaluate pandemic preparedness? In this book, Carolin Mezes examines how the practice of pandemic preparedness monitoring has become an important feature of global health security governance – and how the COVID-19 pandemic has revealed its failure. By way of document analysis and an ethnographic case study of the Joint External Evaluations, her study considers the well-rehearsed critique that preparedness monitoring cannot »predict« pandemic response performance and appears as a hollow paperwork exercise of box-ticking. An analysis of the media-technologies of preparedness monitoring gives nuance to these criti...
Reproduktion und Selektion
Die Autoren rekonstruieren den sozialwissenschaftlichen Forschungsstand zu gesellschaftlichen Implikationen der Präimplantationsdiagnostik (PID) und identifizieren u.a. folgende Problemkomplexe: eine Expansion der PID in neue Anwendungsfelder, eine Verfestigung sozialer Ungleichheiten sowie einen Wandel normativer Erwartungen hin zur Vorstellung einer genetischen Reproduktionsverantwortung. Diese konvergiert mit einer individualisierenden Präventionslogik, die gegenwärtige Transformationsprozesse der Medizin und Gesundheitspolitik kennzeichnet.
Soziologie 4.2018
Die »Soziologie« ist das Forum der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie (DGS). Die Zeitschrift fördert die Diskussion über die Entwicklung des Fachs, informiert über die Einbindung der deutschen Soziologie in ihren europäischen und weltweiten Kontext und dient dem Informationsaustausch über die Arbeit in den Sektionen und Arbeitsgruppen innerhalb der DGS.
