Nadine Ehlers
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 128949 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Nadine Ehlers |
| NOMBRES | Nadine |
| APELLIDO | Ehlers |
| FIRMA | EHLERS N |
| AFILIACIONES | The University of Sydney |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 24 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 59 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 24 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2004 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Accounting for Death
Death is a highly and increasingly economised process in which individual, family, institutional and state finances play important, but often opaque, roles in shaping the contours of dying. Drawing on 44 in-depth interviews with people who are dying, their family and their healthcare providers, this article explores how economic rationalities profoundly shape almost every dimension of their experiences of the end of life. Circulating within this …
Tensions of time at the end (of life)
Perhaps the most valuable asset in our cultural imaginary is time. Yet, this notion of time-as-asset intensifies, is contested, and is often derailed at the end of life. When faced with death, time can become many things, including both personal and interpersonal asset and liability. Bringing the concept of time and dying into focus, this paper draws on qualitative interviews with 15 people nearing death in an Australian specialist palliative car…
Living and Dying in Shadow Times
Normative time frameworks obscure the ontological ambiguities of lived time, particularly in relation to illness and death. These forms of ambiguous lived time constitute what we call 'shadow time' - the unnoticed and the unknowable in our dominant temporal order. We examine what we call 'diagnostic time', 'prognostic time', 'terminal time' and 'mourning time' as shades of shadow time that elude the ordering of time that orders life. A critical s…
Dying as a Collective Encounter
The end of life is replete with relational complexities. Yet, despite the work of humanities and social science scholars in the field of death and dying, our final days and weeks are still often framed through a highly individualistic lens. As a result, the collective encounters of dying can become sidelined within the management of an individual's embodied journey. This, in some cases, has the effect of obscuring the presence and power of collec…
The Racial Spectacular
Data visualizations related to COVID-19 operate as forms of spectacle essential to the racialized governance of the pandemic. Guy Debord theorized spectacle as separation-between subjects, populations, regions, dots on a map. We extend and revise Debord's framework of spectacle, drawing on Ruth Wilson Gilmore's definition of racism and Sylvia Wynter's critique of monohumanism to position spectacle as ways of seeing as separation: constructed ways…
The administration of harm
Harm is a recurring theme in the social sciences. Scholars in a range of empirical areas have documented the deleterious outcomes that at times emerge from social structures, institutions and systems of governance. Yet these harms have often been presented under the rubric of ‘unintended consequences’. The outcomes of systems are designed to appear devoid of intentionality, in motion without any clear agency involved, and are thus particularly ad…
Racial Biofutures
Through a consideration of COVID-19, this article offers a series of provocations in thinking about racial biofutures. First, it suggests that looking backwards through a lens of recursivity only allows us to see the same anti-black futures mapped out again and again, the repeated production of predictable futures - always - already precarious. Second, along with many others, I argue that we know this story of recursivity and that naming these re…
Abject Ontologies
Race and Biomedicine Beyond the Lab
Life’s continuation
This paper examines the affinity ties of biological and familial whiteness in ART as evident in the 2014 Illinois Northern District Court case of Cramblett v. Midwest Sperm Bank —where a white mother filed a wrongful birth suit and sought legal compensation for the loss of perceived genetic similarity and giving birth to a ‘black’ child via donor insemination. Applying critical legal and critical race studies to the case and engaging its surround…
The Prosthetic Promise
This article explores how the body/materiality might be understood in relation to the tekhnē (the technologies, techniques, and craft) of repair implicit within breast reconstruction technologies. Breast reconstruction technologies promise to repair the body following breast cancer surgery by returning the body to its previous ‘normativity’ and supposed state of corporeal ‘wholeness’, both of which rest on the ability to visually signify and embo…
Biofutures
This article addresses biomedical forms of racial targeting under neoliberal biopolitics. We explore two racial targeting technologies: The development of race-based pharmaceuticals, specifically BiDil; and medical hot spotting, a practice that uses Geographic Information System (GIS) technologies and spatial profiling to identify populations that are medically vulnerable in order to facilitate preemptive care. These technologies are ostensibly d…
Fat Capital
Within the domain of breast reconstruction, abject fat has become a form of biovalue to be harnessed, harvested, and remediated through fat transfer, fat grafting, the therapeutic use of fat stem cells, and fat banking. Each of these technologies deploys fat as capital and promises to return corporeal wholeness following breast cancer surgery. This paper explores the supposed endless malleability of fat and the Promethean dream it represents. In …
Risking 'Safety
Hope Logics
This essay explores the deployment of hope within biomedicine. Drawing on Michel Foucault's account of biopolitics , it argues that hope works in the service of biopolitical imperatives to govern life, and to secure, optimize, and speculate on that life. The essay broadly considers the operations of affect in biomedicine, and specifically examines the governing function of affective conventions of hope -that is, the perceptual, emotional, and cor…
The Dialectics of Vulnerability
This essay argues that breast cancer prognosis potentially produces a dialectic in which the subject is compelled to perceive the body as vulnerable and separate (alien) to the self and that the treatments required make the body more vulnerable and more alien, and that this is held in tension with the fact that the very alienation and heightened vulnerability of the body in breast cancer treatment are productive. Such alienation and vulnerability…
Tekhnē of reconstruction
This essay is an engagement with and a rejoinder to Audre Lorde's framing of prosthetics and breast reconstruction in her seminal The Cancer Journals. Given that, as Susan Merrill Squier has argued, human life is increasingly defined and understood in terms of discourses and possibilities for the “instrumental deployment of resources for bodily renewal,” this essay explores how the body/materiality might be understood in relation to the tekhneē (…
The body in breast cancer
Racial Imperatives
Nadine Ehlers' edited volume, *Racial Imperatives: Discipline, Performativity, and Struggles against Subjection*, examines how racial categories are constructed and maintained through disciplinary practices and performative acts. The collection brings together interdisciplinary scholarship to analyze the complex interplay of race, power, and subjectivity, exploring how individuals both resist and reproduce racial norms. Contributors consider a ra…
Onerous passions
Ehlers's analysis revisits Foucauldian conceptualizations of the history of sexuality in order to map the inextricability of race, gender and sexuality as they emerged in the context of the early American colonies. The salience of such an analysis lies in its ability to extend the terrain of Foucault's history, and brings new considerations to bear regarding the specific configurations of race, gender and sexual intersections in North American hi…
Retroactive phantasies
The present inquiry considers how the practice and notion of race can be figured as a type of discipline that functions to achieve the subjection of the individual – to form the individual as a racial subject. Focusing on the constructions of blackness and whiteness within US racial rhetoric, and engaging the work of Michel Foucault and Judith Butler, I propose that racial identity is a retroactive phantasy that is always conditional on the subje…
‘Black Is’ and ‘Black Ain’t’
Race is rigorously policed through, and predicated on, a crisis of maintaining a claim to supposed racial ontology. The language of crisis pervades race; yet crisis is only brought into focus – shows itself – when racial ontology is called into question or threatened as an axiomatic reality. This essay argues, however, that it is crisis, in the form of the imperative regulatory call to race or the intricate operations of racialising discipline th…
Hidden in plain sight
This article examines the intersectionality of law and race to argue that law, in its broadest understanding, has played a pivotal role in the performative constitution of racial subjects. This disciplinary regulation, which has operated to “fix” an individual within a racial status under law, has augmented the production of the individual as a raced subject. An analysis of Rhinelander v. Rhinelander, however, illuminates that a defiance of racia…
Racial Imperatives
On November 9, 1925, proceedings began in a Westchester county, New York, courthouse, in the trial of Alice Rhinelander, nee Jones. Alice's husband, Leonard "Kip' Rhinelander had filed for an annulment of their marriage one year earlier, only a month affter the young couple's wedding and at what seemed the insistence of his family. Their marriage colud have been romanticized as a fairytale union across class lines, for Leonard was the scion of on…
The administration of harm
Harm is a recurring theme in the social sciences. Scholars in a range of empirical areas have documented the deleterious outcomes that at times emerge from social structures, institutions and systems of governance. Yet these harms have often been presented under the rubric of ‘unintended consequences’. The outcomes of systems are designed to appear devoid of intentionality, in motion without any clear agency involved, and are thus particularly ad…
Biofutures
This article addresses biomedical forms of racial targeting under neoliberal biopolitics. We explore two racial targeting technologies: The development of race-based pharmaceuticals, specifically BiDil; and medical hot spotting, a practice that uses Geographic Information System (GIS) technologies and spatial profiling to identify populations that are medically vulnerable in order to facilitate preemptive care. These technologies are ostensibly d…
Racial Imperatives
Nadine Ehlers' edited volume, *Racial Imperatives: Discipline, Performativity, and Struggles against Subjection*, examines how racial categories are constructed and maintained through disciplinary practices and performative acts. The collection brings together interdisciplinary scholarship to analyze the complex interplay of race, power, and subjectivity, exploring how individuals both resist and reproduce racial norms. Contributors consider a ra…
The body in breast cancer
Racial Biofutures
Through a consideration of COVID-19, this article offers a series of provocations in thinking about racial biofutures. First, it suggests that looking backwards through a lens of recursivity only allows us to see the same anti-black futures mapped out again and again, the repeated production of predictable futures - always - already precarious. Second, along with many others, I argue that we know this story of recursivity and that naming these re…
Risking 'Safety
The Dialectics of Vulnerability
This essay argues that breast cancer prognosis potentially produces a dialectic in which the subject is compelled to perceive the body as vulnerable and separate (alien) to the self and that the treatments required make the body more vulnerable and more alien, and that this is held in tension with the fact that the very alienation and heightened vulnerability of the body in breast cancer treatment are productive. Such alienation and vulnerability…
Tekhnē of reconstruction
This essay is an engagement with and a rejoinder to Audre Lorde's framing of prosthetics and breast reconstruction in her seminal The Cancer Journals. Given that, as Susan Merrill Squier has argued, human life is increasingly defined and understood in terms of discourses and possibilities for the “instrumental deployment of resources for bodily renewal,” this essay explores how the body/materiality might be understood in relation to the tekhneē (…
Retroactive phantasies
The present inquiry considers how the practice and notion of race can be figured as a type of discipline that functions to achieve the subjection of the individual – to form the individual as a racial subject. Focusing on the constructions of blackness and whiteness within US racial rhetoric, and engaging the work of Michel Foucault and Judith Butler, I propose that racial identity is a retroactive phantasy that is always conditional on the subje…
Hidden in plain sight
This article examines the intersectionality of law and race to argue that law, in its broadest understanding, has played a pivotal role in the performative constitution of racial subjects. This disciplinary regulation, which has operated to “fix” an individual within a racial status under law, has augmented the production of the individual as a raced subject. An analysis of Rhinelander v. Rhinelander, however, illuminates that a defiance of racia…
The Racial Spectacular
Data visualizations related to COVID-19 operate as forms of spectacle essential to the racialized governance of the pandemic. Guy Debord theorized spectacle as separation-between subjects, populations, regions, dots on a map. We extend and revise Debord's framework of spectacle, drawing on Ruth Wilson Gilmore's definition of racism and Sylvia Wynter's critique of monohumanism to position spectacle as ways of seeing as separation: constructed ways…
Onerous passions
Ehlers's analysis revisits Foucauldian conceptualizations of the history of sexuality in order to map the inextricability of race, gender and sexuality as they emerged in the context of the early American colonies. The salience of such an analysis lies in its ability to extend the terrain of Foucault's history, and brings new considerations to bear regarding the specific configurations of race, gender and sexual intersections in North American hi…
Hidden in plain sight
This article examines the intersectionality of law and race to argue that law, in its broadest understanding, has played a pivotal role in the performative constitution of racial subjects. This disciplinary regulation, which has operated to “fix” an individual within a racial status under law, has augmented the production of the individual as a raced subject. An analysis of Rhinelander v. Rhinelander, however, illuminates that a defiance of racia…
‘Black Is’ and ‘Black Ain’t’
Race is rigorously policed through, and predicated on, a crisis of maintaining a claim to supposed racial ontology. The language of crisis pervades race; yet crisis is only brought into focus – shows itself – when racial ontology is called into question or threatened as an axiomatic reality. This essay argues, however, that it is crisis, in the form of the imperative regulatory call to race or the intricate operations of racialising discipline th…
Retroactive phantasies
The present inquiry considers how the practice and notion of race can be figured as a type of discipline that functions to achieve the subjection of the individual – to form the individual as a racial subject. Focusing on the constructions of blackness and whiteness within US racial rhetoric, and engaging the work of Michel Foucault and Judith Butler, I propose that racial identity is a retroactive phantasy that is always conditional on the subje…
Onerous passions
Ehlers's analysis revisits Foucauldian conceptualizations of the history of sexuality in order to map the inextricability of race, gender and sexuality as they emerged in the context of the early American colonies. The salience of such an analysis lies in its ability to extend the terrain of Foucault's history, and brings new considerations to bear regarding the specific configurations of race, gender and sexual intersections in North American hi…
Tekhnē of reconstruction
This essay is an engagement with and a rejoinder to Audre Lorde's framing of prosthetics and breast reconstruction in her seminal The Cancer Journals. Given that, as Susan Merrill Squier has argued, human life is increasingly defined and understood in terms of discourses and possibilities for the “instrumental deployment of resources for bodily renewal,” this essay explores how the body/materiality might be understood in relation to the tekhneē (…
The body in breast cancer
Racial Imperatives
Nadine Ehlers' edited volume, *Racial Imperatives: Discipline, Performativity, and Struggles against Subjection*, examines how racial categories are constructed and maintained through disciplinary practices and performative acts. The collection brings together interdisciplinary scholarship to analyze the complex interplay of race, power, and subjectivity, exploring how individuals both resist and reproduce racial norms. Contributors consider a ra…
Risking 'Safety
Hope Logics
This essay explores the deployment of hope within biomedicine. Drawing on Michel Foucault's account of biopolitics , it argues that hope works in the service of biopolitical imperatives to govern life, and to secure, optimize, and speculate on that life. The essay broadly considers the operations of affect in biomedicine, and specifically examines the governing function of affective conventions of hope -that is, the perceptual, emotional, and cor…
The Dialectics of Vulnerability
This essay argues that breast cancer prognosis potentially produces a dialectic in which the subject is compelled to perceive the body as vulnerable and separate (alien) to the self and that the treatments required make the body more vulnerable and more alien, and that this is held in tension with the fact that the very alienation and heightened vulnerability of the body in breast cancer treatment are productive. Such alienation and vulnerability…
Fat Capital
Within the domain of breast reconstruction, abject fat has become a form of biovalue to be harnessed, harvested, and remediated through fat transfer, fat grafting, the therapeutic use of fat stem cells, and fat banking. Each of these technologies deploys fat as capital and promises to return corporeal wholeness following breast cancer surgery. This paper explores the supposed endless malleability of fat and the Promethean dream it represents. In …
Biofutures
This article addresses biomedical forms of racial targeting under neoliberal biopolitics. We explore two racial targeting technologies: The development of race-based pharmaceuticals, specifically BiDil; and medical hot spotting, a practice that uses Geographic Information System (GIS) technologies and spatial profiling to identify populations that are medically vulnerable in order to facilitate preemptive care. These technologies are ostensibly d…
The Prosthetic Promise
This article explores how the body/materiality might be understood in relation to the tekhnē (the technologies, techniques, and craft) of repair implicit within breast reconstruction technologies. Breast reconstruction technologies promise to repair the body following breast cancer surgery by returning the body to its previous ‘normativity’ and supposed state of corporeal ‘wholeness’, both of which rest on the ability to visually signify and embo…
Race and Biomedicine Beyond the Lab
Life’s continuation
This paper examines the affinity ties of biological and familial whiteness in ART as evident in the 2014 Illinois Northern District Court case of Cramblett v. Midwest Sperm Bank —where a white mother filed a wrongful birth suit and sought legal compensation for the loss of perceived genetic similarity and giving birth to a ‘black’ child via donor insemination. Applying critical legal and critical race studies to the case and engaging its surround…
Abject Ontologies
The administration of harm
Harm is a recurring theme in the social sciences. Scholars in a range of empirical areas have documented the deleterious outcomes that at times emerge from social structures, institutions and systems of governance. Yet these harms have often been presented under the rubric of ‘unintended consequences’. The outcomes of systems are designed to appear devoid of intentionality, in motion without any clear agency involved, and are thus particularly ad…
Racial Biofutures
Through a consideration of COVID-19, this article offers a series of provocations in thinking about racial biofutures. First, it suggests that looking backwards through a lens of recursivity only allows us to see the same anti-black futures mapped out again and again, the repeated production of predictable futures - always - already precarious. Second, along with many others, I argue that we know this story of recursivity and that naming these re…
Racial Imperatives
On November 9, 1925, proceedings began in a Westchester county, New York, courthouse, in the trial of Alice Rhinelander, nee Jones. Alice's husband, Leonard "Kip' Rhinelander had filed for an annulment of their marriage one year earlier, only a month affter the young couple's wedding and at what seemed the insistence of his family. Their marriage colud have been romanticized as a fairytale union across class lines, for Leonard was the scion of on…
The Racial Spectacular
Data visualizations related to COVID-19 operate as forms of spectacle essential to the racialized governance of the pandemic. Guy Debord theorized spectacle as separation-between subjects, populations, regions, dots on a map. We extend and revise Debord's framework of spectacle, drawing on Ruth Wilson Gilmore's definition of racism and Sylvia Wynter's critique of monohumanism to position spectacle as ways of seeing as separation: constructed ways…
Tensions of time at the end (of life)
Perhaps the most valuable asset in our cultural imaginary is time. Yet, this notion of time-as-asset intensifies, is contested, and is often derailed at the end of life. When faced with death, time can become many things, including both personal and interpersonal asset and liability. Bringing the concept of time and dying into focus, this paper draws on qualitative interviews with 15 people nearing death in an Australian specialist palliative car…
Living and Dying in Shadow Times
Normative time frameworks obscure the ontological ambiguities of lived time, particularly in relation to illness and death. These forms of ambiguous lived time constitute what we call 'shadow time' - the unnoticed and the unknowable in our dominant temporal order. We examine what we call 'diagnostic time', 'prognostic time', 'terminal time' and 'mourning time' as shades of shadow time that elude the ordering of time that orders life. A critical s…
Dying as a Collective Encounter
The end of life is replete with relational complexities. Yet, despite the work of humanities and social science scholars in the field of death and dying, our final days and weeks are still often framed through a highly individualistic lens. As a result, the collective encounters of dying can become sidelined within the management of an individual's embodied journey. This, in some cases, has the effect of obscuring the presence and power of collec…
Accounting for Death
Death is a highly and increasingly economised process in which individual, family, institutional and state finances play important, but often opaque, roles in shaping the contours of dying. Drawing on 44 in-depth interviews with people who are dying, their family and their healthcare providers, this article explores how economic rationalities profoundly shape almost every dimension of their experiences of the end of life. Circulating within this …
Sociology (18 obras) · Political science (11 obras) · Aesthetics (10 obras) · Philosophy (10 obras) · Gender Studies (9 obras) · Law (9 obras) · Epistemology (8 obras) · Politics (6 obras) · Race, History, and American Society (6 obras) · Art (5 obras)