Political administration and regulation of the life of species and a locality's populations
Not to be confused with Biocontrol.
Biopolitics is a concept introduced by the French philosopher Michel Foucault in the mid-20th century.[1] At its core, biopolitics explores how governmental power operates through the management and regulation of a population's bodies and lives.
This interdisciplinary field scrutinizes the mechanisms through which political authorities and institutions exercise control over populations which goes beyond conventional forms of governance.[2] This encompasses areas such as the regulation of health, reproduction, sexuality, and other aspects of biological existence.[3] The governmental power of biopolitics is exerted through practices such as surveillance, healthcare policies, population control measures, gender-based laws, and the implementation of biometric identification systems.
Foucault's thesis claims that contemporary power structures are increasingly preoccupied with the administration of life itself, rather than solely focusing on individual behaviors or actions.[4] Accordingly, biopolitics entails the governance of populations as biological entities, with an emphasis on optimizing their health, productivity, and reproductive capacities in manners conducive to broader political and economic objectives.[5] In its essence, biopolitics investigates how political power intersects with biological life, shaping the bodies, behaviors, and well-being of populations through diverse strategies and controls.
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Biopolitics is a concept introduced by the French philosopher Michel Foucault in the mid-20th century. At its core, biopolitics explores how governmental...
The Birth of Biopolitics is a part of a lecture series by French philosopher Michel Foucault at the Collège de France between 1978 and 1979 and published...
Retrieved 13 November 2016. Zeiderman, Austin (2009). Life at Risk: Biopolitics, Citizenship, and Security in Colombia. Congress of the Latin American...
the colonized socio-economically othered and subaltern through modern biopolitics of sexuality, gender, race, disability and class, among others, resulting...
blends into desire and desire blends into power, let's forget them both." Biopolitics Governmentality Philip Rieff Thomas Szasz Schrift, Alan D. (2010). "French...
form-of-life (borrowed from Ludwig Wittgenstein) and homo sacer. The concept of biopolitics (carried forth from the work of Michel Foucault) informs many of his...
Tilson, R. L.; Sel, U. S. (eds.). Tigers of the world: the biology, biopolitics, management, and conservation of an endangered species. Park Ridge, N...
Vol. 1: The Will to Knowledge. London: Penguin "Biopolitics: An Overview". The Anthropology of Biopolitics. 21 January 2013. Retrieved 20 November 2018....
integration of biopolitics and geopolitics within the Hitlerian worldview, amalgamating spatial theory, practice, and imagination with biopolitics. In Hitlerism...
British Sea Power, 1750–1815 (Routledge, 2017). Neufeld, Matthew. "The biopolitics of manning the Royal Navy in late Stuart England." Journal of British...
Psychiatric Power (2003) Security, Territory, Population (2004) The Birth of Biopolitics (2004) The Government of Self and Others (2008) The Courage of Truth...
theorist, and professor, notable for his academic research and works on biopolitics. He currently serves as professor of theoretical philosophy at the Scuola...
'noopolitics' by Maurizio Lazzarato (2004). "'Noopolitics' supplements the biopolitics of the species described by Foucault" (Terranova 2007, 139). "Against...
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author who is employed by Rutgers University. Schuller, Kyla (2018). The Biopolitics of Feeling: Race, Sex, and Science in the Nineteenth Century. Duke University...
academia.edu. Retrieved 8 May 2016. Chen, Mel Y. (10 July 2012). Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect. Duke University Press. ISBN 9780822352549...
threat to Germany and its colonies. To fight it in Germany doctors used biopolitics to educate and regulate the bodies of likely victims. Propaganda campaigns...
x. S2CID 219539909. Bourassa, Gregory N. (June 2019). "An Autonomist Biopolitics of Education: Reproduction, Resistance, and the Specter of Constituent...
Tilson, R. L.; Sel, U. S. (eds.). Tigers of the world: the biology, biopolitics, management, and conservation of an endangered species. Park Ridge, N...
Tilson, R. L.; Seal, U. S. (eds.). Tigers of the World: The Biology, Biopolitics, Management, and Conservation of an Endangered Species. New Jersey: Noyes...
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conservative politician Rudolf Kjellén, coined the terms geopolitics and biopolitics in relation to his organic theory of the state. He also developed the...
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racism was rooted in university departments dedicated to Eugenics and biopolitics, which viewed Romani and Jewish people as a "bioethnic danger" to the...
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