Lorna Weir
Biographic Data
| ID | 286602 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lorna Weir |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lorna |
| FAMILY NAME | Weir |
| SIGNATURE | WEIR L |
| AFFILIATIONS | York University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 389 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Roberto Esposito's Political Philosophy of the Gift
Roberto Esposito has extended the deconstructive theory of the gift into political philosophy, theorizing the gift as the transcendental form of political obligation. In Esposito's philosophy of communitas, the munus consists of the single obligation to give, a logic of donors without receivers, yet it simultaneously establishes relations of reciprocity, mutuality, debt and gratitude. I argue that that indebtedness and reciprocity are not logical…
A Genealogy of Global Health Security
Journal Article A Genealogy of Global Health Security Get access Lorna Weir Lorna Weir York University, Canada Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Political Sociology, Volume 6, Issue 3, September 2012, Pages 322–325, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-5687.2012.00166_4.x Published: 10 September 2012
Global Public Health Vigilance
Global Public Health Vigilance is the first sociological book to investigate recent changes in how global public health authorities imagine and respond to threats to human health. This book explores a remarkable period of conceptual innovation during which infectious disease, historically the focus of disease control, was displaced by international public health emergencies, a concept that brought new responsibilities to public health authorities…
Sovereignty, Governance and the Political
Contemporary Foucauldian research assimilates the political with governance. This formulation dates to Foucault's emphasis on the significance of the anti-Machiavellians in introducing the concept of governance into political theory. Returning to Machiavelli, we argue that early modern political theory was instead characterized by the simultaneous problematization of ruler and ruled, and the co-constitution of sovereignty and governance. We then …
The Concept of Truth Regime
See text. This programme doesn't appear to let me copy the abstract here
Pregnancy, Risk and Biopolitics
Traditionally, Euroamerican cultures have considered that human status was conferred at the conclusion to childbirth. However, in contemporary Euroamerican biomedicine, law and politics, the living subject is often claimed to pre-exist birth. In this fascinating book Lorna Weir argues that the displacement of birth as the threshold of the living subject began in the 1950s with the novel concept of ‘perinatal mortality’ referring to death of eithe…
The Global Public Health Intelligence Network and Early Warning Outbreak Detection
On the Threshold of the Living Subject
Politics and Sovereign Power
Foucault's critique of early modern political theory aimed at displacing sovereignty as the principle of intelligibility of power. In the genealogical literature since Foucault, sovereignty has become a residual category lacking analytic specificity, largely displaced by governance, in turn equated with politics. We argue that Foucault and the Foucauldians have not understood that the flourishing of governance has presupposed a symbolic regime wi…
Crisis Talks
Crisis Talk:Comments on McLaughlin's "Canada's Impossible Science" Bruce Curtis and Lorna Weir In two recent papers on the "succession question" in English-Canadian sociology (Curtis and Weir 2002; Weir and Curtis 2003), we argued for the advantages of reflexivity as a shared orientation for scholars engaged in investigations of the social (also, Curtis 2004). The context of our argument is the rapid aging of the 800-odd people working in full-ti…
Crisis Talk
Bruce Curtis, Lorna Weir, Crisis Talk: Comments on McLaughlin's "Canada's Impossible Science", The Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie, Vol. 30, No. 4 (Autumn, 2005), pp. 503-511
The problem of evidence-based medicine
Cultural intertexts and scientific rationality
The text begins a line of dialogue between feminist and epistemological work in the life sciences using a case study of the concepts ‘foetus’ and ‘baby’ in diagnostic ultrasound and parental discourse. The case material illustrates the multiple, coexisting registers of clinical discourse and the significance of cultural intertexts, the insertion within biomedical discourse of concepts from other cultural domains. It follows that biomedical ration…
A Critical Feminist Analysis of the Final Report of the Royal Commission on New Reproductive Technologies
Proceed with Care: The Final Report of the Royal Commission on New Reproductive Technologies is one of a series of official studies that have appeared in a number of jurisdictions since the beginning of the 1980s addressing medically assisted human reproduction. These reports are a product of uncertainties and conflicts in the governance of human reproduction at the present time and pose the classic questions of governance: how to use power to im…
Regulating New Reproductive and Genetic Technologies
Mariana Valverde, Lorna Weir, Regulating New Reproductive and Genetic Technologies: A Feminist View of Recent Canadian Government Initiatives, Feminist Studies, Vol. 23, No. 2, Feminists and Fetuses (Summer, 1997), pp. 418-423
Governmentality, criticism, politics
The growth of the governmentality literature represents a significant development in current social theory. However, certain prominent and interlinked tendencies, which are associated with the place of politics as a subject and object of theoretical work, are queried. Most especially the concerns are with: the rejection of critique as part of the work of social theory; the rendering of government programmes as univocal and as overly coherent and …
Recent developments in the government of pregnancy
Three broad axes of change in the contemporary government of pregnancy are presented as a case study of governance: the subjectification of the foetus, antenatal risk management and liberal government of pregnancy. Qualifying studies that privilege popular visual representation of the foetus, the formation of the 'public foetus' is argued to be the object and effect of a co-patterning of lingual and visual distinctions across a variety of biomedi…
Beyond Political Correctness
Social Movement Activism in the Formation of Ontario New Democratic Party Policy on Abortion, 1982-1984
The conflict within the Ontario New Democratic Party during 1982-1984 on the question of setting party policy in support of the feminist campaign for free-standing abortion clinics is used as a case study to develop three aspects of social movement theory: alliance and conflict systems, radical flank effects, and social movement-political party relations. A previously undocumented radical flank effect is proposed, an inequality effect, arising un…
Left Popular Politics in Canadian Feminist Abortion Organizing, 1982-1991
A political analysis of Canadas pro-choice campaign from 1982 to the present illustrates the inadequacy of current theories of new social movements. These movements are constructed as focused on cultural and identify politics rather than the state and class politics of socialist and labor organizing campaigns. However feminist organizing around the abortion issues has been directly related to two class issues: the class structuring of access to a…
Limitations of New Social Movement Analysis
The term new social (NSMs) entered the lexicon of social theory during the 1980s. At the most obvious level, new social designates the broad range of contemporary social movements, including environmental, peace, feminist, ethnic, anti-racist and national minority organizing. These movements are thought to be defined by an orientation to identity and cultural politics rather than to state and class politics
The Wanderings of the Linguistic Turn in Anglophone Historical Writing
Women and the State
Travelling in England and the United States, Canadian socialist feminists have often been very surprised to discover the strongly academic and weakly activist formation of socialist feminism in these countries. The element of surprise arises from an assumption that the large quantities of English and American socialist feminist literature which we in Canada consume emanate (somehow) from vast systems of socialist feminist political mobilizing. Wi…
Governmentality, criticism, politics
The growth of the governmentality literature represents a significant development in current social theory. However, certain prominent and interlinked tendencies, which are associated with the place of politics as a subject and object of theoretical work, are queried. Most especially the concerns are with: the rejection of critique as part of the work of social theory; the rendering of government programmes as univocal and as overly coherent and …
The problem of evidence-based medicine
Recent developments in the government of pregnancy
Three broad axes of change in the contemporary government of pregnancy are presented as a case study of governance: the subjectification of the foetus, antenatal risk management and liberal government of pregnancy. Qualifying studies that privilege popular visual representation of the foetus, the formation of the 'public foetus' is argued to be the object and effect of a co-patterning of lingual and visual distinctions across a variety of biomedi…
Politics and Sovereign Power
Foucault's critique of early modern political theory aimed at displacing sovereignty as the principle of intelligibility of power. In the genealogical literature since Foucault, sovereignty has become a residual category lacking analytic specificity, largely displaced by governance, in turn equated with politics. We argue that Foucault and the Foucauldians have not understood that the flourishing of governance has presupposed a symbolic regime wi…
The Global Public Health Intelligence Network and Early Warning Outbreak Detection
The Concept of Truth Regime
See text. This programme doesn't appear to let me copy the abstract here
A Critical Feminist Analysis of the Final Report of the Royal Commission on New Reproductive Technologies
Proceed with Care: The Final Report of the Royal Commission on New Reproductive Technologies is one of a series of official studies that have appeared in a number of jurisdictions since the beginning of the 1980s addressing medically assisted human reproduction. These reports are a product of uncertainties and conflicts in the governance of human reproduction at the present time and pose the classic questions of governance: how to use power to im…
Limitations of New Social Movement Analysis
The term new social (NSMs) entered the lexicon of social theory during the 1980s. At the most obvious level, new social designates the broad range of contemporary social movements, including environmental, peace, feminist, ethnic, anti-racist and national minority organizing. These movements are thought to be defined by an orientation to identity and cultural politics rather than to state and class politics
Roberto Esposito's Political Philosophy of the Gift
Roberto Esposito has extended the deconstructive theory of the gift into political philosophy, theorizing the gift as the transcendental form of political obligation. In Esposito's philosophy of communitas, the munus consists of the single obligation to give, a logic of donors without receivers, yet it simultaneously establishes relations of reciprocity, mutuality, debt and gratitude. I argue that that indebtedness and reciprocity are not logical…
Sovereignty, Governance and the Political
Contemporary Foucauldian research assimilates the political with governance. This formulation dates to Foucault's emphasis on the significance of the anti-Machiavellians in introducing the concept of governance into political theory. Returning to Machiavelli, we argue that early modern political theory was instead characterized by the simultaneous problematization of ruler and ruled, and the co-constitution of sovereignty and governance. We then …
Cultural intertexts and scientific rationality
The text begins a line of dialogue between feminist and epistemological work in the life sciences using a case study of the concepts ‘foetus’ and ‘baby’ in diagnostic ultrasound and parental discourse. The case material illustrates the multiple, coexisting registers of clinical discourse and the significance of cultural intertexts, the insertion within biomedical discourse of concepts from other cultural domains. It follows that biomedical ration…
A Genealogy of Global Health Security
Journal Article A Genealogy of Global Health Security Get access Lorna Weir Lorna Weir York University, Canada Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Political Sociology, Volume 6, Issue 3, September 2012, Pages 322–325, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-5687.2012.00166_4.x Published: 10 September 2012
Crisis Talk
Bruce Curtis, Lorna Weir, Crisis Talk: Comments on McLaughlin's "Canada's Impossible Science", The Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie, Vol. 30, No. 4 (Autumn, 2005), pp. 503-511
Regulating New Reproductive and Genetic Technologies
Mariana Valverde, Lorna Weir, Regulating New Reproductive and Genetic Technologies: A Feminist View of Recent Canadian Government Initiatives, Feminist Studies, Vol. 23, No. 2, Feminists and Fetuses (Summer, 1997), pp. 418-423
The Wanderings of the Linguistic Turn in Anglophone Historical Writing
Women and the State
Travelling in England and the United States, Canadian socialist feminists have often been very surprised to discover the strongly academic and weakly activist formation of socialist feminism in these countries. The element of surprise arises from an assumption that the large quantities of English and American socialist feminist literature which we in Canada consume emanate (somehow) from vast systems of socialist feminist political mobilizing. Wi…
Women and the State
Travelling in England and the United States, Canadian socialist feminists have often been very surprised to discover the strongly academic and weakly activist formation of socialist feminism in these countries. The element of surprise arises from an assumption that the large quantities of English and American socialist feminist literature which we in Canada consume emanate (somehow) from vast systems of socialist feminist political mobilizing. Wi…
Limitations of New Social Movement Analysis
The term new social (NSMs) entered the lexicon of social theory during the 1980s. At the most obvious level, new social designates the broad range of contemporary social movements, including environmental, peace, feminist, ethnic, anti-racist and national minority organizing. These movements are thought to be defined by an orientation to identity and cultural politics rather than to state and class politics
The Wanderings of the Linguistic Turn in Anglophone Historical Writing
Left Popular Politics in Canadian Feminist Abortion Organizing, 1982-1991
A political analysis of Canadas pro-choice campaign from 1982 to the present illustrates the inadequacy of current theories of new social movements. These movements are constructed as focused on cultural and identify politics rather than the state and class politics of socialist and labor organizing campaigns. However feminist organizing around the abortion issues has been directly related to two class issues: the class structuring of access to a…
Beyond Political Correctness
Social Movement Activism in the Formation of Ontario New Democratic Party Policy on Abortion, 1982-1984
The conflict within the Ontario New Democratic Party during 1982-1984 on the question of setting party policy in support of the feminist campaign for free-standing abortion clinics is used as a case study to develop three aspects of social movement theory: alliance and conflict systems, radical flank effects, and social movement-political party relations. A previously undocumented radical flank effect is proposed, an inequality effect, arising un…
Recent developments in the government of pregnancy
Three broad axes of change in the contemporary government of pregnancy are presented as a case study of governance: the subjectification of the foetus, antenatal risk management and liberal government of pregnancy. Qualifying studies that privilege popular visual representation of the foetus, the formation of the 'public foetus' is argued to be the object and effect of a co-patterning of lingual and visual distinctions across a variety of biomedi…
A Critical Feminist Analysis of the Final Report of the Royal Commission on New Reproductive Technologies
Proceed with Care: The Final Report of the Royal Commission on New Reproductive Technologies is one of a series of official studies that have appeared in a number of jurisdictions since the beginning of the 1980s addressing medically assisted human reproduction. These reports are a product of uncertainties and conflicts in the governance of human reproduction at the present time and pose the classic questions of governance: how to use power to im…
Regulating New Reproductive and Genetic Technologies
Mariana Valverde, Lorna Weir, Regulating New Reproductive and Genetic Technologies: A Feminist View of Recent Canadian Government Initiatives, Feminist Studies, Vol. 23, No. 2, Feminists and Fetuses (Summer, 1997), pp. 418-423
Governmentality, criticism, politics
The growth of the governmentality literature represents a significant development in current social theory. However, certain prominent and interlinked tendencies, which are associated with the place of politics as a subject and object of theoretical work, are queried. Most especially the concerns are with: the rejection of critique as part of the work of social theory; the rendering of government programmes as univocal and as overly coherent and …
Cultural intertexts and scientific rationality
The text begins a line of dialogue between feminist and epistemological work in the life sciences using a case study of the concepts ‘foetus’ and ‘baby’ in diagnostic ultrasound and parental discourse. The case material illustrates the multiple, coexisting registers of clinical discourse and the significance of cultural intertexts, the insertion within biomedical discourse of concepts from other cultural domains. It follows that biomedical ration…
The problem of evidence-based medicine
Crisis Talks
Crisis Talk:Comments on McLaughlin's "Canada's Impossible Science" Bruce Curtis and Lorna Weir In two recent papers on the "succession question" in English-Canadian sociology (Curtis and Weir 2002; Weir and Curtis 2003), we argued for the advantages of reflexivity as a shared orientation for scholars engaged in investigations of the social (also, Curtis 2004). The context of our argument is the rapid aging of the 800-odd people working in full-ti…
Crisis Talk
Bruce Curtis, Lorna Weir, Crisis Talk: Comments on McLaughlin's "Canada's Impossible Science", The Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie, Vol. 30, No. 4 (Autumn, 2005), pp. 503-511
Pregnancy, Risk and Biopolitics
Traditionally, Euroamerican cultures have considered that human status was conferred at the conclusion to childbirth. However, in contemporary Euroamerican biomedicine, law and politics, the living subject is often claimed to pre-exist birth. In this fascinating book Lorna Weir argues that the displacement of birth as the threshold of the living subject began in the 1950s with the novel concept of ‘perinatal mortality’ referring to death of eithe…
The Global Public Health Intelligence Network and Early Warning Outbreak Detection
On the Threshold of the Living Subject
Politics and Sovereign Power
Foucault's critique of early modern political theory aimed at displacing sovereignty as the principle of intelligibility of power. In the genealogical literature since Foucault, sovereignty has become a residual category lacking analytic specificity, largely displaced by governance, in turn equated with politics. We argue that Foucault and the Foucauldians have not understood that the flourishing of governance has presupposed a symbolic regime wi…
Sovereignty, Governance and the Political
Contemporary Foucauldian research assimilates the political with governance. This formulation dates to Foucault's emphasis on the significance of the anti-Machiavellians in introducing the concept of governance into political theory. Returning to Machiavelli, we argue that early modern political theory was instead characterized by the simultaneous problematization of ruler and ruled, and the co-constitution of sovereignty and governance. We then …
The Concept of Truth Regime
See text. This programme doesn't appear to let me copy the abstract here
Global Public Health Vigilance
Global Public Health Vigilance is the first sociological book to investigate recent changes in how global public health authorities imagine and respond to threats to human health. This book explores a remarkable period of conceptual innovation during which infectious disease, historically the focus of disease control, was displaced by international public health emergencies, a concept that brought new responsibilities to public health authorities…
A Genealogy of Global Health Security
Journal Article A Genealogy of Global Health Security Get access Lorna Weir Lorna Weir York University, Canada Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Political Sociology, Volume 6, Issue 3, September 2012, Pages 322–325, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-5687.2012.00166_4.x Published: 10 September 2012
Roberto Esposito's Political Philosophy of the Gift
Roberto Esposito has extended the deconstructive theory of the gift into political philosophy, theorizing the gift as the transcendental form of political obligation. In Esposito's philosophy of communitas, the munus consists of the single obligation to give, a logic of donors without receivers, yet it simultaneously establishes relations of reciprocity, mutuality, debt and gratitude. I argue that that indebtedness and reciprocity are not logical…
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