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Imperatives without imperator
Schmittâs theologisation of sovereignty has been subjected, 50 years later, to a âquarter turnâ by Foucaultâs move from issues of domination to issues of government. After a further 30 years, radicalising Foucault, Agambenâs archaeology of economy adds another âquarter turnâ: the structure that emerges once the old European conjugality of facticity and validity, of praxis and being, emptied of all bonds, links, and loops, gives way to the bare opposition âbipolarityâ. The new constellation provides the old legal-theoretical (kelsenian) problem of rules unsuspended from a ruler who would authorise them, with a new, unexpected, political content and with a change of epistemic paradigm. Abstract from publisher website at: http://www.springerlink.com/content/r875043667332q76/?p=20359db2f2504c2882f03f03e2c94902&pi=
The Persistence of the Asset Effect during French Presidential Elections
In a seminal and innovative book, Jacques Capdevielle and his colleagues suggested some thirty years ago the existence of an âasset effectâ to help explain electoral behavior in France. Despite the significance of this finding, the issue has received little subsequent attention. The measurement of wealth has been given less and less space in French election surveys, particularly during the 2007 presidential elections. We show in this paper that the âasset effectâ is still relevant today for explaining voting behavior in France. By proposing a general model based on the idea of risk aversion, we show to what extent risky assets are a powerful predictor of right-wing voting in France over the 1988-2007 period. This finding demonstrates the value of reviving this innovative concept from French political science
La persistance de l'effet patrimoine lors des élections présidentielles françaises
Dans un ouvrage novateur, France de gauche, vote Ă droite (1981), Jacques Capdevielle et al. ont mis Ă jour il y a une trentaine dâannĂ©es lâexistence dâun « effet patrimoine » expliquant de façon significative le comportement Ă©lectoral en France. MalgrĂ© la portĂ©e de ce rĂ©sultat, lâĂ©tude de cette question a reçu moins dâattention par la suite. La mesure du patrimoine a occupĂ© de moins en moins de place dans les enquĂȘtes Ă©lectorales françaises, notamment au moment des Ă©lections prĂ©sidentielles de 2007. Nous dĂ©montrons dans ce texte que lâeffet patrimoine est toujours aussi pertinent aujourdâhui pour expliquer le comportement Ă©lectoral en France. En proposant un modĂšle gĂ©nĂ©ral inspirĂ© des travaux sur lâaversion au risque, nous montrons comment le patrimoine risquĂ© se rĂ©vĂšle ĂȘtre un puissant prĂ©dicteur du vote Ă droite en France sur la pĂ©riode 1988-2007. Ce constat montre lâintĂ©rĂȘt de renouer avec un concept novateur de la science politique française.In a seminal and innovative book, Jacques Capdevielle and his colleagues suggested some thirty years ago the existence of an âasset effectâ to help explain electoral behavior in France. Despite the significance of this finding, the issue has received little subsequent attention. The measurement of wealth has been given less and less space in French election surveys, particularly during the 2007 presidential elections. We show in this paper that the âasset effectâ is still relevant today for explaining voting behavior in France. By proposing a general model based on the idea of risk aversion, we show to what extent risky assets are a powerful predictor of right-wing voting in France over the 1988-2007 period. This finding demonstrates the value of reviving this innovative concept from French political science
The Erotics of Injury: Remembering Operation Spanner Workshops 10th - 11th September 2015, University of Essex and Royal Holloway, University of London
Gender Differences in COVID-19 Related Attitudes and Behavior: Evidence from a Panel Survey in Eight OECD Countries
Using original data from two waves of a survey conducted in March and April 2020 in eight OECD countries (N = 21,649), we show that women are more likely to see COVID-19 as a very serious health problem, to agree with restraining public policy measures adopted in response to it, and to comply with them. Gender differences in attitudes and behavior are substantial in all countries, robust to controlling for a large set of sociodemographic, employment, psychological, and behavioral factors, and only partially mitigated for individuals who cohabit or have direct exposure to COVID-19. The results are not driven by differential social desirability bias. They carry important implications for the spread of the pandemic and may contribute to explain gender differences in vulnerability to it
'Against the World': Michael Field, female marriage and the aura of amateurism'
This article considers the case of Katherine Bradley and Edith Cooper, an aunt and niece who lived and wrote together as âMichael Fieldâ in the fin-de-siĂšcle Aesthetic movement. Bradleyâs bold statement that she and Cooper were âcloser marriedâ than the Brownings forms the basis for a discussion of their partnership in terms of a âfemale marriageâ, a union that is reflected, as I will argue, in the pages of their writings. However, Michael Fieldâs exclusively collaborative output, though extensive, was no guarantee for success. On the contrary, their case illustrates the notion, valid for most products of co-authorship, that the jointly written work is always surrounded by an aura of amateurism. Since collaboration defied the ingrained notion of the author as the solitary producer of his or her work, critics and readers have time and again attempted to âparseâ the collaboration by dissecting the co-authored work into its constituent halves, a treatment that the Fields too failed to escape
âWhat if There's Something Wrong with Her?ââHow Biomedical Technologies Contribute to Epistemic Injustice in Healthcare
While there is a steadily growing literature on epistemic injustice in healthcare, there are few discussions of the role that biomedical technologies play in harming patients in their capacity as knowers. Through an analysis of newborn and pediatric genetic and genomic sequencing technologies (GSTs), I argue that biomedical technologies can lead to epistemic injustice through two primary pathways: epistemic capture and value partitioning. I close by discussing the larger ethical and political context of critical analyses of GSTs and their broader implications for just and equitable healthcare delivery
âAs a womanâŠâ; âAs a MuslimâŠâ: Subjects, positions and counter-terrorism powers in the United Kingdom
This article presents findings from original focus group research on the importance of identity claims within public understandings of counter-terrorism across the UK. Following a review of existing literature on the terrorism/counter-terrorism/identity nexus, the article introduces four prominent subject positions inhabited within public articulations of counter-terrorism powers: the âMuslimâ, the âtargetâ, the âwomanâ and the âunaffectedâ. Positions such as these, we argue, both enable and inhibit particular normative, political and anecdotal claims about counter-terrorism frameworks and their impact upon the body politic. This, we suggest, is demonstrative of the co-constitutive role between counter-terrorism and identity claims. Thus, on the one hand, counter-terrorism initiatives work to position individuals socially, politically, and culturally: (re)producing various religious, ethnic and other identities. Yet, at the same time, specific subject positions are integral to the articulation of peopleâs attitudes toward developments in counter-terrorism. The article concludes by thinking through some of the implications of this, including for resistance toward securitising moves and for citizenship more generally
"Go Back to the Land!" Negotiating Space, Framing Governmentality in Lambwe Valley, Kenya 1954-75
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