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...Alex Melonas Abstract In this article, I elaborate the basis for thinking about the human subject in a way that entails biology while leaving room for political action in an effort to free the study of the human from the two opposed extremes of biologism and social constructivism...

...John M. Friend Abstract This article argues that advances in biotechnology and the life sciences, particularly the ongoing neuro-revolution, have changed the relationship between science and politics. Since the “Decade of the Brain” project of the 1990s, new neuroscientific terms and biological...

... of non-nuclear weapons and their delivery, communications, command and support systems, "conventional" as well as "exotic" in the biological and chemical meanings of the word. * Originally prepared for the NATO Workshop on Conflict and Environment, June 12-16, 1996, under the auspices of PRIO...

..., one has to confront this struggle. Biology especially, more than other natural sciences, has become an extremely important source of ideological weaponry for class struggle. In the last ten years we have seen a revival of a kind of biological determinism which says that everything is in our genes...

... to promote within the government the idea of placing biological weapons under international contro1.22 His fortuitous participation in the tripartite conference thus allowed him to turn this concern into official policy. Had the State Department engaged in methodical planning for the conference...

... add considerations of a peculiar German propensity to violence and racial hatred in order to address this problem. This combination of structural and biological factors informs the policies enacted by the Bonn government: Ban the hate-groups and deport asylum seekers. Both of these measures, however...

... on multilateral negotiations and treaties over weapons control by renouncing nuclear weapons treaties and attempts to regulate nuclear testing, biological and chemical weapons, small arms trading, land mines and environmental treaties, which had been carefully nurtured by decades of diplomacy. In this study, I...

... that are still taking their toll), and it helps to amplify weak trends that look promising but encounter strong resistance (such as the effort to bring the scientific approach to bear on social as well as on physical and biological phenomena). The self-correcting university also serves as a reality-tester; when...

... interpretation and understanding. I make and defend seven preliminary observations-in the spirit of exploration. First Observation. The human species establish their societies in response to certain primitive and perennial challenges. I argue that four are central: physical security; biological health...

..., founded in 1992, of the same name which focuses on neo-abolitionism as a response to white supremacy. South Africa's Poor Whites and Whiteness Studies 487 two fundamental errors: the contention that biological explanations of race have disappeared and the contention that biological explanations of race...

... the cover of a difference of origin or of culture. At the same time the legitimation process relies on national origin and the virtue of European descent, descent which is said to be carried within a biological stock: genealogy is a guarantee. This is where colonial racism encounters the 'national European...

..., demonstrating how cultural tasks become automatic, and consistently cause us to 536 Book Reviews suppress some emotions and encourage others. Life experiences, he argues, shape our tendencies toward our empathetic behavior and we remain prey to cultural pre-programming that interferes with our biological...

... frequent use of quotation marks around this term will become clear as we proceed. In no sense do I question the reality of racist oppression. What I question is the supposed biological grounding of the concept. Notions of race-as distinct from descriptive terms pertaining to people's physical features...

... families particularly families who are biologically connected - familial separation through deportation actively destabilizes immigrant families by forcing millions of children to live in constant fear of losing their parents and thousands to live without one or both parents. This presents a paradox...

... of capitalism have perpetuated. This newer book expands Marx's metabolic rift from a narrowly defined biological fracture between nutrient extraction and renewal to describing the disjunction between humanity and nature. This disjunction is the "ecological rift." The book is divided into four parts, each...

... deterministic biological reality for all women that defines socially constructed sex roles and sexual behaviors-evolved from early radical feminism's close attention to the material, physical dimensions of power exercised through the female body that involved efforts to retrieve the vagina from patriarchy's...

... representation and is therefore ambiguous and easily manipulated: "in racist ideology race is a biological form used as a sign. Race should be seen as a signifier which may be manipulated at the symbolic level. Race is a category which includes a biological marker characterized by 'otherness' in proportion...

..., and legitimized-the acts come to be understood in both theory and everyday use as effects of an underlying true or essential self." Here, my point is to distinguish between sexual constructivism and biological determinism, neither of which necessarily gives individuals total control over sexualities. The paradigm...

... individuals to "bare life" through the biological management of populations, already operates on the fundamental exclusion of a more-than-human nature (p. 126). The state's exclusion of nature from ethical and political consideration ironically may lead to an intensification of the biopolitical predicament...

... of reproducing ourselves. It is this phrase, reproducing ourselves, that contains multiple meanings for me. First there is the obvious content that refers to the biological reproduction of the species. Then there is the reproduction of culture, the linking of generations, each conceived, born and raised...