Dr. Myriam Lavoie-Moore is assistant professor at Saint Paul University and co-director of the School of Social Communications. Her research interests focus on the role of technology in the valorization and devaluation of lives, bodies and the work of care. Recently, she has been working on issues related to the development of artificial intelligence in healthcare, reforms to the Quebec healthcare system and the acceptability of inequalities in the face of death.
Necropolitics (Mbembe, 2019[2003]) directs our attention to the nature of contemporary governance drawing on the power to make disposable, or to expose the Other to death. Myriam has drawn on and developed the concept of necropolitical institutions and the necropolitical narratives in the context of state violence. She is currently inquiring into the necropolitical dimension of economy in the context of healthcare. Connecting social reproduction theories with necropolitic aims to investigate the capitalist process of care devalorisation with the devalorisation of carer lives and, to some extend, the devalorisation of the objects of care. In this presentation, Myriam is inviting the participants to explore how public services and institutions can operate the passage from a biopolitical to a necropolitical economic apparatus serving disposability and premature death.
The aim is to become familiar with and discuss the concept of (necro)political economy, and explore how it can enrich current research practices on the care economy and digital economy.
PhD students are kindly asked to read:
1) the Preface and third chapter of Dead Labor. Toward a political economy of premature death from James Tyner, and
2) Roskinska and Pellerito 2023's article Advocating for Survival : Domestic Workers in the Necropolitical in advance, as a starting point for the discussion (literature will be shared upon registration).
The workshop is open to PhD students from all faculties and disciplines.
Supported by Sectorplannen (Digitalization, New ways of Working and the New Employee) and Convergence (Feminist Generative AI Lab)
Questions? E-mail gromme@essb.eur.nl
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