Works by McMahon, John (exact spelling)

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  1. Behavioral economics as neoliberalism: Producing and governing homo economicus.John McMahon - 2015 - Contemporary Political Theory 14 (2):137-158.
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    The “Enigma of Biopolitics”: Antiblackness, Modernity, and Roberto Esposito’s Biopolitics.John McMahon - 2018 - Political Theory 46 (5):749-771.
    What would it mean to take antiblackness seriously in theories of biopolitics? How would our understanding of biopolitics change if antiblack racialization and slavery were understood as the paradigmatic expression of biopolitical violence? This essay thinks through the significance of black studies scholarship for disentangling biopolitics’ paradoxes and dilemmas. I argue that only by situating antiblackness as constitutive of modernity and of modern biopolitics can we begin to meet the theoretical and political challenges posed by biopolitics. While Roberto Esposito formulates (...)
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    Emotional Orientations: Simone de Beauvoir and Sara Ahmed on Subjectivity and the Emotional Phenomenology of Gender.John McMahon - 2016 - philoSOPHIA: A Journal of Continental Feminism 6 (2):215-240.
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    Securing white democracy: Guns and the politics of whiteness.Danielle Hanley & John McMahon - 2024 - Contemporary Political Theory 23 (1):22-42.
    What does the open-carried gun tell us about the contemporary political structure of whiteness, and how do such objects operate to reinforce this structure? To work through these questions, this article brings together political theories of racialized democracy and political theoretical analyses of gun-rights debates with insights from interdisciplinary scholarship on guns to generate a political theoretical account of the relationship between guns and white democracy. To do so, we analyze two open-carry spectacles: recurring Second Amendment protests featuring the prominent (...)
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