biopolitics
- noun
- /ˌbaɪəʊˈpɒlɪtɪks/
- Formal
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biopolítica
- As a critic of biopolitics, Roberto Esposito claims that the very condition of modernity is the advent of an immunitary paradigm, and "it is immunization that brings modernity into existence." 12
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If we view society as an 'organization'; i.e., as a collection of individuals, things-in-themselves animated by common beliefs or common values, this takes us into the discussion on 'vitalism' aka 'biopolitics,' which, in effect, portrays society as a life-form.
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It is Foucault's biopolitics in its most extreme version.
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I study political economy and biopolitics.
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Sandel poses an important challenge to contemporary progressives who have failed to grasp the importance of the emerging biopolitics. -- Jonathan Moreno (Democracy 2007-08-13)
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Interior biopolitics, on the other hand, include "soft" forms of immigrant regulation, unlocalized and immanent, which shape the behavior of undocumented people within the United States while dangling the continual threat of removal.
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Similarly, Eithne Luibhid explains how biopolitics foster some contacts at the expense of others, especially when people of varying gender, sexual orientation, race, and class move across and within porous (trans) national borders.
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It is needless to say that political theology and biopolitics, from Carl Schmitt to our contemporaries, have been used to justify or criticize the extreme violence of totalitarianism formed around the Jewish Holocaust.
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In this historical valence, my study sets out from the fact that Othello is imbued with speech acts concerning Shakespeare's contemporary biopolitics, in particular, society's desperate attempts to quarantine the plague.11
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It is part of the biopolitics of immigrant policing, a form of "soft" regulation that pushes undocumented people into shadow populations and underground economies where they are made even more vulnerable, their labor rendered even cheaper and more accessible to the needs of United States capital, and their ability to demand their rights as workers inhibited.
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Governments use biopolitics to monitor and control public health initiatives during the pandemic.
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Etymology
The word biopolitics comes from bio- 'life', as in biology, and politics 'decisions about people and government'. So biopolitics is about how governments or institutions control, manage, or care for people's bodies and health.