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Biopower, Security, and Development

2010
Biopolitics approaches population as a political and scientific problem-space. Contemporary biopolitics operates primarily, although not exclusively, through security mechanisms rather than disciplinary ones. This chapter specifically addresses how populations, particularly childhood populations, are constituted in political and social policy as ...
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Biopolitics, Biopower, and the Return of Sovereignty

Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 2009
In this paper we want to open up for discussion what counts as ‘biopolitics’—a term frequently used by critics and devotees alike to describe the organization of political power and authority in a world after Bretton Woods, the Cold War, and 9/11. We do so on two fronts. On the one hand, we contrast Foucault on war and the normalizing society, Agamben
Mathew Coleman, Kevin Grove
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Biopower, Biosociality, and Community Formation: How Biopower Is Constitutive of the Deaf Community

Sign Language Studies, 2010
Key thinkers within Deaf Studies (e.g., Lane 1992 and Ladd 2003) have utilized the work of Michel Foucault on biopower in order to critically examine the ways in which the Hearing community oppresses the Deaf community through medical, audiological, social service, and educational institutions.
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Biopolitics and Biopower

Michel Foucault introduced the concepts of biopower and biopolitics to avoid the shortcomings of a hegemonic concept of power in political theory, which defines power in terms of sovereignty and the state and does not account for how power functions outside the state in institutions like the family, physician–patient relationships, or in the workplace.
Gregg Lambert, Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson   +1 more
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Biomass availability for biopower applications [PDF]

IEEE Power Engineering Society General Meeting, 2004., 2005
The majority of biomass used today is a residue produced either in the primary or secondary processing industries, or as post consumer residues. Many of the industries that process wood or sugar cane are themselves significant consumers of energy in the form of process heat and electricity so that this is a sector with a considerable amount of rankine ...
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From Discipline to Biopower

2015
When the young Foucault sets out from studying the treatment of madness in the asylum, it is to demonstrate how modern reason has made itself dependent for its autonomy on the maintenance of ‘the political’ in a highly asymmetrical state of superiority and subordination.
Henrik Paul Bang, Henrik Paul Bang
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Biopower and the politics of contingency

2019
Chapter 3 offers a biopolitical translation of Claude Lefort’s idea of the democratic regime as characterized by ontological contingency and epistemic indeterminacy. Lefort’s powerful image of the void at the heart of democracy is in the context of biopolitics specified in terms of the absence of any proper form of life and the affirmation of radical ...
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Isolation, Liberalism, Biopower

2017
This chapter introduces the cultural history of health governance and sketches the broad outline of how epidemic diseases were significantly transformed in Victorian London by a novel system of hospital isolation. The historiography of disease control in the nineteenth century tends to focus on how the fear and panic of contagious disease lends itself ...
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Affect and biopower: towards a politics of life

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 2011
In this paper I stage an encounter between two concepts that have become popular placeholders for a broad concern with a politics of life: affect and biopower. Through engagement with Antonio Negri’s writings on the ‘real subsumption of life’ in contemporary capitalism and Michel Foucault’s lectures on neoliberalism, I show that understanding how forms
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Sex, Race, and Biopower: A Foucauldian Genealogy

Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, 2004
For many years feminists have asserted an “intersection” between sex and race. This paper, drawing heavily on the work of Michel Foucault, offers a genealogical account of the two concepts showing how they developed together and in relation to similar political forces in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
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