The Gray Zone: Small Wars, Peacetime Crimes, and Invisible Genocides

Scheper‐Hughes, Nancy

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“…Additional instances are discernible in the critical care provided to homeless populations (Jenkins et al., 2023 ) and the discourses concerning palliative care (Robertson & Travaglia, 2022 ). ND care spaces are embedded with the violence of these discourses and territorializations, resembling the ‘genocide continuum’ exemplified by Scheper-Hughes ( 2007 ) or the ‘peacetime crimes’ of Basaglia ( 1987 ).…”

Section: The Political Space Of Ageing and Neurodegenerationmentioning

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Necropolitics of Death in Neurodegeneration

de la Rosa,

Berrocoso,

Scorza

2024

Cult Med Psychiatry

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Neurodegenerative diseases (ND) pose significant challenges for biomedicine in the twenty-first century, particularly considering the global demographic ageing and the subsequent increase in their prevalence. Characterized as progressive, chronic and debilitating, they often result in higher mortality rates compared with the general population. Research agendas and biomedical technologies are shaped by power relations, ultimately affecting patient wellbeing and care. Drawing on the concepts of bio- and necropolitics, introduced by philosophers Foucault and Mbembe, respectively, this perspective examines the interplay between the territoriality and governmentality around demographic ageing, ND and death, focussing on knowledge production as a dispositif of power by highlighting the marginal role that the phenomenon of mortality plays in the ND research landscape. We propose a shift into acknowledging the coloniality of knowledge and embracing its situatedness to attain knowledge ‘from death’, understood as an epistemic position from which novel approaches and practices could emerge.

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Section: The Political Space Of Ageing and Neurodegenerationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Necropolitics of Death in Neurodegeneration

de la Rosa,

Berrocoso,

Scorza

2024

Cult Med Psychiatry

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“…The social construction of childhood has been shaped by intersections of race, class, caste and gender, just like processes of criminalisation. Thus, constructions of the ‘street child’ or ‘child beggar’ as dirty and violent, or a ‘nuisance’ and a ‘threat’, stand in contrast to middle-class and sentimentalised constructions of childhood (Mathur, 2009; Scheper-Hughes & Hoffman, 1998; Zelizer, 1985). Unequal childhoods mean children are exposed to violence and/or the state to varying degrees.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Unequal childhoods mean children are exposed to violence and/or the state to varying degrees. In understanding such differential experiences of violence or work, scholars point to the importance of recognising children as social beings with the right to make choices about work, negotiating survival even when choices are constrained (Arneson, 1981; Auyero & Berti, 2015; Bachman, 2000; Balagopalan, 2014; Liebel, 2012; Malhotra & Subrahmanian, forthcoming; Nieuwenhuys, 1996; Nirantar Trust, 2021; Scheper-Hughes & Hoffman, 1998; Shah, 2014).…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

‘It’s a Matter of Land’: The Politics of Spatial Illegality and Cooperation in an Informal Settlement in Delhi

Malhotra

2023

Urbanisation

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This article offers a unique lens through which to theorise neoliberal governance from the perspective of the politics of space and everyday surveillance. Situated in the informal settlement of ‘Manohar Nivas’ in New Delhi, the article draws from over two years of ethnographic research and formal semi-structured interviews with children, their families, civil society and state representatives. Bringing theories of spatialised power into conversation with Faranak Miraftab’s framework on the mutually constitutive concepts of ‘invited’ and ‘invented’ spaces of participation, it argues that Manohar Nivas is an ‘invented’ spatial domain of regulatory power wherein discretionary surveillance operates to enforce precarity and entrench poverty. These dynamics, however, are mitigated to some degree through spatial cooperation and possibilities for citizen participation in opposition to state domination and violence.

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“…27 This is, of course, not to say that scholars should deny or obscure issues of violence, fear, and inequalities they have observed, so long as they can write openly without placing respondents at risk. Keeping quiet about even the small, everyday injustices we see allows them to remain routine, to become gradually more accepted and invisible, which can in the long run lead to far greater structural and physical violence (Bourgois 2002;Scheper-Hughes 2007).…”

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Reflexivity and Temporality in Researching Violent Settings: Problems with the Replicability and Transparency Regime

Thaler

2019

Geopolitics

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Researchers studying conflict, violence, and human rights in dangerous settings across the globe face a complex set of ethical, personal, and professional dilemmas. Especially in more positivist fields and professions, there is pressure to conduct and present research as 'objective'. Yet the reality of field research in violent and conflict-affected settings is much messier than ideals in methodology textbooks or the polished presentation of field data in much published work. I argue that rather than the imposition of blanket positivist standards of replicability and research transparency, research in violent settings needs to draw lessons from interpretivist ideas and methodologies about the researcher's role in the process of data gathering, analysis, and presentation. I focus on three key issues: reflexivity, temporality, and the geography of research between 'field' and 'home,' drawing on personal experiences conducting research on conflict, violence, and postconflict society in Liberia, Nicaragua, South Africa, and Uganda. I show how these three issues practically, theoretically, and ethically conflict with replicability and transparency demands. Through a practice of reflexive openness, however, positivist-leaning researchers can more honestly and ethically reconcile realities of research with professional expectations in the field and after returning. Beyond the omnipresent ethical imperative to protect human subjects, researchers in violent and conflict-affected settings must engage in various ethical, mental, and professional balancing acts while living in the field, interacting with research participants, recording and analyzing data, and reporting findings. Researchers in more positivist fields must determine how to reconcile their experiences in the field and emotional orientations toward research participants with the 'objectivity' that their disciplines or employers may expect in data gathering and analysis. Balancing these priorities can be a struggle even in more reflexive fields like ethnographic sociology and critical geography (e.g. Nilan 2002; Woon 2013). An

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The Gray Zone: Small Wars, Peacetime Crimes, and Invisible Genocides

Cited by 7 publications

References 10 publications

Necropolitics of Death in Neurodegeneration

Necropolitics of Death in Neurodegeneration

‘It’s a Matter of Land’: The Politics of Spatial Illegality and Cooperation in an Informal Settlement in Delhi

Reflexivity and Temporality in Researching Violent Settings: Problems with the Replicability and Transparency Regime

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