Search Results for self-enhancement

... biopolitics responsibility citizenship self-enhancement bioavailabilities ...

... Two parallel forms of citizenship are revealed through an analysis of Brazilian health care. Within reproductive health, the first—available to those who can afford private health—is founded on notions of individual choice and self-enhancement, whilst the second frames reproductive decisions...

... individuals who come to life in it: opportunistic, projective, stress-driven. The chapter details the built architecture of “the auto-hypnotically closed counter-worlds”—air-conditioned chambers, space capsules, high-rises, concrete islands, institutional settings for the self-enhanced—the sites...

... Drawing on histories of 1970s feminist praxis positioning DIY self-knowledge as self-care—a way of wresting control of reproductive technologies and expertise away from a racist, colonialist, and sexist medical establishment, as well as longer histories of self-care as an instrument...

... individuals who come to life in it: opportunistic, projective, stress-driven. The chapter details the built architecture of “the auto-hypnotically closed counter-worlds”—air-conditioned chambers, space capsules, high-rises, concrete islands, institutional settings for the self-enhanced—the sites...

... doing they point to the reality of human creativity and show it to be more complex and dependent upon nonhuman processes than doctrines of humanist exceptionalism suggest. Along the way “arts of the self” that reach below the register of cultural consciousness are engaged. Examples are given to show how...

... This chapter provides a detailed analysis of international human rights laws and institutions and the relationship between Indigenous Peoples in South America and colonial borders. This chapter argues that advancing self-determination for transborder and transnational Indigenous Peoples requires...

...’ fight for greater inclusion in the Presbyterian Church informed the NGO’s holistic model of development. This model entails working toward multiple goals at once, including enhancing women’s self-esteem, combating environmental degradation, reinforcing religious values, combating individualism...

... As an urban portrait, Jacopo de’ Barbari’s View of Venice describes the city’s unique forma urbis as it celebrates Venice and its architectural monuments. The composite bird’s-eye view permits more of the city to be seen, and visual enhancements and optical alterations enliven and enrich...

... of international human rights laws and institutions and the relationship between Indigenous Peoples in South America and colonial borders. This chapter argues that advancing self-determination for transborder and transnational Indigenous Peoples requires transborder mechanisms to enhance dialogue between states...

... development. This chapter puts forward an alternative framework for ICT governance in the KRI that is focused on fluid and shifting geographical, sociocultural, and political considerations. By following this framework, ICTs would adapt to Indigenous ways of knowing and living, helping to ensure self...

... the flesh expresses and enhances sentience, without denying the animal. It recounts how Lydia Parrish’s and Alan Lomax’s collection of “authentic” African American music, chiefly from the Georgia Sea Islands, constitutes an official archive at the expense of the living transmission of performative poiēsis...

... as a representation of a self-satisfied city at the peak of its prosperity, chapter 6 argues that it was a product of crisis. The print formed part of the propagandistic culture intended to disseminate ideas, showing that Venetian commercial strength would allow the city to persist in the face of adversity...