Jyotirmaya Tripathy, Development as biopolitics: food security and the contemporary Indian experience (2017) Journal of Cultural Economy, 10(6), 498–509. https://doi.org/10.1080/17530350.2017.1354312 Abstract Development is concerned with the biological security and well-being of people, and so all development theory and practice are biopolitical in a fundamental sense. The paper argues that for development to be made meaningful, …
Silvio Gallo, The care of the self and biopolitics: Resistance and practices of freedom (2017) Educational Philosophy and Theory, 49 (7), pp. 691-701. https://doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2016.1204735 Translated from Portuguese by Gabriela Salim Spagnol and Davina Marques. Abstract This text through the direct use to Foucault’s work and using the concepts of ‘care of the self’ and biopolitics …
Podcast Bryan Cooke and Mark Kelly discuss Foucault, biopolitics, modernity, the role of the intellectual in politics, and Foucault, March 18, 2016
Michael P. A. Murphy, 2017. “Pouvoir constituant betrayed: a model of abjection in power relations” Journal of Political Power 10(1), 85–93. https://doi.org/10.1080/2158379X.2017.1287471 Abstract Examination of the limit serves as a powerful tool for revealing the hidden characteristics of concepts, and also their relationship with other concepts. This article follows the processes of sovereign exceptionalism from …
Holly Randell-Moon, Ryan Tippet (Eds.) Security, Race, Biopower. Essays on Technology and Corporeality, Palgrave Macmillan, 2016 This book explores how technologies of media, medicine, law and governance enable and constrain the mobility of bodies within geographies of space and race. Each chapter describes and critiques the ways in which contemporary technologies produce citizens according to …
The Routledge Handbook of Biopolitics Edited by Sergei Prozorov, Simona Rentea, Routledge, 2017 About the Book The problematic of biopolitics has become increasingly important in the social sciences. Inaugurated by Michel Foucault’s genealogical research on the governance of sexuality, crime and mental illness in modern Europe, the research on biopolitics has developed into a broader …
Rik Peeters & Marc Schuilenburg, The birth of mindpolitics: understanding nudging in public health policy, Social Theory & Health, 09 November 2016 https://doi.org/10.1057/s41285-016-0024-z Abstract This article addresses the question: ‘In what ways have nudging and other behavioural techniques entered the realm of policymaking for public health and what does that mean for the way contemporary …
Silvio Gallo, The care of the self and biopolitics: Resistance and practices of freedom (2016) Educational Philosophy and Theory, 49(7), 691–701. https://doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2016.1204735 Abstract This text through the direct use to Foucault’s work and using the concepts of ‘care of the self’ and biopolitics is questioning and analyzing resistance and practices of freedom. Mainly, from the …
New Issue of Pléyade: Biopolítica, number 17, launched in June 2016 Full PDF of issue available Pléyade is an international peer reviewed journal dedicated to the Humanities and Social Sciences funded the year 2008 by the Centre for Political Analysis and Research in Santiago, Chile. The journal is an independent publication since 2016. This publication …
Jlateh Vincent Jappah and Danielle Taana Smith, Global governmentality: Biosecurity in the era of infectious diseases, Global Public Health. 2015;10(10):1139-56. Epub 2015 May 18. https://doi.org/10.1080/17441692.2015.1038843 Abstract This paper uses Foucault’s concept of governmentality to examine relationships between globalisation, the threat of infectious diseases and biosecurity. It draws attention to forms of calculated practices which Foucault …
