Natasha Saltes, ‘Abnormal’ Bodies on the Borders of Inclusion: Biopolitics and the Paradox of Disability Surveillance, Surveillance and Society, Vol 11, No 1/2 (2013) https://doi.org/10.24908/ss.v11i1/2.4460 Abstract When conducted according to the biomedical definition of disability, ‘disability surveillance’ involves monitoring bodies against normative ontological standards, classifying ‘abnormality’ and problematizing ‘abnormal bodies’ as risky. While disability surveillance …
Verena Erlenbusch, The place of sovereignty: Mapping power with Agamben, Butler, and Foucault (2013) Critical Horizons, 14 (1), pp. 44-69. https://doi.org/10.1179/15685160X13A.0000000003 Abstract This article addresses the relationship between sovereignty, biopolitics and governmentality in the work of Giorgio Agamben, Judith Butler, and Michel Foucault. By unpacking Foucault’s genealogy of modern governmentality, it responds to a criticism …
Alessandra Renzi and Greg Elmer, The Biopolitics of Sacrifice: Securing Infrastructure at the G20 Summit (2013) Theory, Culture and Society, 30 (5), pp. 45-69. https://doi.org/10.1177/0263276412474327 Abstract This article investigates infrastructure spending from a biopolitical perspective and rethinks its connections to emerging regimes of (in)securitization. Starting with a study of the organization and contestation of the …
Saran Ghatak & Andrew Stuart Abel, Power/Faith: Governmentality, Religion, and Post-Secular Societies (2013) International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society, 26 (3), pp. 217-235. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10767-013-9141-z Abstract Foucault’s concept of governmentality, and its attending modalities of biopower and disciplinary technologies, provides a useful conceptual schema for the analysis of the role of religious and quasi-religious institutions …
Raúl Sánchez García and Antonio Rivero Herraiz, ‘Governmentality’ in the origins of European female PE and sport: The Spanish case study (1883-1936) Sport, Education and Society, 18 (4), 2013, pp. 494-510. https://doi.org/10.1080/13573322.2011.601735 Abstract The purpose of the paper is twofold: (1) to contribute to the analysis of the origins of modern European female PE and …
Jonathan Beever, Nicolae C. Morar (Editors), Perspectives in Bioethics, Science, and Public Policy, Purdue University Press, 2013 Book Description In this book, nine thought-leaders engage with some of the hottest moral issues in science and ethics. Based on talks originally given at the annual “Purdue Lectures in Ethics, Policy, and Science,” the chapters explore interconnections …
Foucault, Governmentality,Biopolitics – Analytical strategies for critique of power (PhD course, 11-13 December 2013) Faculty • Jeffrey Bussolini, Associate Professor, Staten Island, City University of New York, USA. • Mitchell Dean, Professor of Public Governance, CBS/University of Newcastle, Denmark/Australia, • Thomas Dumm, Professor, Department of Political Science, Amherst College, USA. • Marius Gudmand-Høyer, Post.Doc, Dept. …
Isacco Turina, Vatican biopolitics (2013) Social Compass, 60 (1), pp. 134-151. https://doi.org/10.1177/0037768612471776 Abstract The author argues that the Vatican’s teaching on family, sexuality and human life is best understood within the frame of Foucault’s concept of biopolitics. His hypothesis is based on two major claims: first, that in the 20th century the Pope took on …
The Unsaveables: Sovereignty and Biopolitics in the 18th Brumaire Dr Dimitris Vardoulakis (UWS) Date: Tuesday 6 August Time: 1 p.m. Venue: Morven Brown 310, University of NSW ) I approach the 18th Brumaire from a double trajectory. First, I examine its relation to how the exception was thought in the work of Carl Schmitt and …
Katarina Damjanov, Lunar cemetery: Global heterotopia and the biopolitics of death (2013) Leonardo, 46 (2), pp. 159-162. https://doi.org/10.1162/LEON_a_00516 Abstract The burial of human remains on the Moon conjures up the idea of a lunar cemetery. This paper reviews related artistic projects and practices and situates the concept of the lunar cemetery in relation to Michel …
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