The articles in this issue will explore different critical situations. First, social, political, and anthropological implications of the COVID-19 pandemic will be analyzed. The pandemic has revealed and brought to light already existing structural inequality (discrimination on the basis of race, age, (dis)ability, etc.) as well as has created new forms of “bare life” (e. g., people at higher risk from virus). With the state of exception, the pandemic has suspended the political status quo, which, in its turn, has opened the possibility to imagine alternative political orders. Second, the migrant crisis and the influenced by it collision between human rights and national security will be explored. Third, the issue will focus on climate crisis that highlights the exploitative and destructive human relationship with other species: human intervention into natural ecosystems as well as destruction and commercialization of other species, which is associated with regularly emerging pandemics. In the face of these crises, biopolitics should be construed not only as a negative force but also as an inevitable necessity to take control of them (governmentality)
Abstract (around 300 words) submission deadline: June 30th, 2022
Article (5000-7000 words) submission deadline: September 1st, 2022
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