Gitte Du Plessis
Biographic Data
| ID | 3688095 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gitte Du Plessis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gitte |
| FAMILY NAME | Du Plessis |
| SIGNATURE | DU PLESSIS G |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Politics in the Time of Covid
Killing Reindeer
To conceptualize the violence of the Nordic states in the Arctic, this article provides a spatial analysis of relationships between Norway, Sweden, and Finland and the Sámi and reindeer inhabiting their northern parts. The analysis is informed by Deleuze and Guattari's concepts of smooth and striated space and examines how the Nordic states, through their striation activities, are perpetrating violence toward nomadic forms of life. Rather than ca…
Collective Discussion
As students and scholars of global politics, we have been witnessing, participating in, and feeling the effects of recent global upheavals. These include specific events, such as the election of Trump and the vote for Brexit, but are better understood through their resulting political effects (e.g., pushing back on migration, hardening national borders, denying climate change, reneging on trade deals, gutting the welfare state, increasing resourc…
When pathogens determine the territory
This article conceptualizes how infectious microbes create real borders that are not dependent on human meaning making or identity. By territorializing interfaces between contagion and ecology, infectious agents engage in bordering practices by determining where citizens can move around safely, and thereby challenge the bordering practices and biosecurity efforts of nation-states. The concept of microbial borders is relevant to global health and …
War machines par excellence
Accounts of security threats and deadly potentials of biological weapons abound while examples of biological weapons in use are rare. Why has a weapon with such great potentials been used so little? Explanations that hinge on technical capabilities, deterrence or diplomatic disarmament successes are insufficient as answers to this question – something else is going on. This article extends Deleuze and Guattari’s concept of a war machine to explai…
When pathogens determine the territory
This article conceptualizes how infectious microbes create real borders that are not dependent on human meaning making or identity. By territorializing interfaces between contagion and ecology, infectious agents engage in bordering practices by determining where citizens can move around safely, and thereby challenge the bordering practices and biosecurity efforts of nation-states. The concept of microbial borders is relevant to global health and …
Politics in the Time of Covid
War machines par excellence
Accounts of security threats and deadly potentials of biological weapons abound while examples of biological weapons in use are rare. Why has a weapon with such great potentials been used so little? Explanations that hinge on technical capabilities, deterrence or diplomatic disarmament successes are insufficient as answers to this question – something else is going on. This article extends Deleuze and Guattari’s concept of a war machine to explai…
Killing Reindeer
To conceptualize the violence of the Nordic states in the Arctic, this article provides a spatial analysis of relationships between Norway, Sweden, and Finland and the Sámi and reindeer inhabiting their northern parts. The analysis is informed by Deleuze and Guattari's concepts of smooth and striated space and examines how the Nordic states, through their striation activities, are perpetrating violence toward nomadic forms of life. Rather than ca…
War machines par excellence
Accounts of security threats and deadly potentials of biological weapons abound while examples of biological weapons in use are rare. Why has a weapon with such great potentials been used so little? Explanations that hinge on technical capabilities, deterrence or diplomatic disarmament successes are insufficient as answers to this question – something else is going on. This article extends Deleuze and Guattari’s concept of a war machine to explai…
Collective Discussion
As students and scholars of global politics, we have been witnessing, participating in, and feeling the effects of recent global upheavals. These include specific events, such as the election of Trump and the vote for Brexit, but are better understood through their resulting political effects (e.g., pushing back on migration, hardening national borders, denying climate change, reneging on trade deals, gutting the welfare state, increasing resourc…
When pathogens determine the territory
This article conceptualizes how infectious microbes create real borders that are not dependent on human meaning making or identity. By territorializing interfaces between contagion and ecology, infectious agents engage in bordering practices by determining where citizens can move around safely, and thereby challenge the bordering practices and biosecurity efforts of nation-states. The concept of microbial borders is relevant to global health and …
Killing Reindeer
To conceptualize the violence of the Nordic states in the Arctic, this article provides a spatial analysis of relationships between Norway, Sweden, and Finland and the Sámi and reindeer inhabiting their northern parts. The analysis is informed by Deleuze and Guattari's concepts of smooth and striated space and examines how the Nordic states, through their striation activities, are perpetrating violence toward nomadic forms of life. Rather than ca…
Politics in the Time of Covid
Sociology (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Global Security and Public Health (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Bacillus and Francisella bacterial research (2 works) · Environmental ethics (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Social science (2 works)