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Left to Live and Die: Resource Security and the Biopolitics of Land Stockpiling in China

open access: yesAntipode, Volume 57, Issue 6, Page 2103-2123, November 2025.
Abstract Beginning in 2007, the Chinese state used liberalising policy and funding to encourage the expansion of large‐scale grain farming. Despite this support, many of the new farms have struggled financially and folded. Drawing on Foucauldian biopolitics and resource security literature, I argue that, with modernised agriculture, the state primarily
Ross Doll
wiley   +1 more source

Le biopouvoir chez Foucault et Agamben

open access: yesMethodos, 2004
According to Foucault, a transformation in the way of exerting power can be discerned from the 18th century onwards, as life becomes a topic of concern for power itself.
Katia Genel
doaj   +1 more source

Fuzzy TOPSIS‐Based Multi‐Criteria Selection of Renewable Energy Sources for Smart Grids

open access: yesWind Energy, Volume 28, Issue 10, October 2025.
ABSTRACT Transitioning to renewable energy sources (RES) is essential for achieving sustainable energy systems and reducing environmental impacts. Integrating RES into smart grids presents a complex decision‐making challenge, as it involves evaluating multiple, often conflicting, criteria such as cost, energy efficiency, environmental impact ...
LiPeng Gao   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Medarchy: Medical Discipline and the Panopticon in Caduceus Wild

open access: yesMiscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies
This article explores the paradoxical nature of biopower when social, political and economic interests clash with individuality and autonomy. Special emphasis is placed on the Foucauldian concept of the panopticon to examine the mechanisms of (self ...
Shadia Abdel-Rahman Téllez
doaj   +1 more source

Bibliopolitics: The History of Notation and the Birth of the Citational Academic Subject

open access: yesFoucault Studies, 2018
The paper builds upon a growing body of critical research on the proliferating use of bibliometrics as a means to evaluate academic research, but brings to it a specifically Foucauldian, genealogical approach. The paper has three parts.
Matthew Sharpe, Kirk Turner
doaj   +1 more source

The Mole & The Snake [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
This article starts from the Foucaultanian notions of biopower and discipline, deal- ing with the strategies of the modern and contemporary capitalism. Introducing the term biopower into his research, Foucault is alluding to a series of transformations ...
Chignola, Sandro
core   +2 more sources

The biopolitics of inspiration: Governing new public health through strategies of physical activity

open access: yesInternational Journal of Social Welfare, Volume 34, Issue 4, October 2025.
Abstract This article examines the promotion of a regional strategy of physical activity for public health in Sweden. Based on focus group interviews, we explore the rationality of governing public health through the strategy and consider how the strategy and its rationality become intertwined in contemporary forms of governing welfare.
David Ekholm, Elin Svensson
wiley   +1 more source

Frames y prácticas discursivas entre Estado y poblaciones negras en Colombia: racismo estructural y derechos humanos

open access: yesUniversitas Humanística, 2014
Frames and Discursive Practices between State and Black Populations in Colombia: Structural Racism and Human Rights Abstract This article discusses the way the discourses and counter-discourses have been used in the construction of frames on behalf of
Adriana Espinosa Bonilla
doaj   +1 more source

Ecological Biopower, Environmental Violence Against Animals, and the "Greening" of the Factory Farm [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
The promulgation of pollution control regulations governing factory farms has led to a striking new way of representing and intervening in the bodies of farmed animals: the body is being represented as a source of pollution, and various technological ...
Jonathan L. Clark
core   +1 more source

The normative stakes of Foucault's engagement with neoliberalism: Seduction, invention, and normalization

open access: yesThe Southern Journal of Philosophy, Volume 63, Issue 3, Page 340-358, September 2025.
Abstract This article critically examines Foucault's engagement with neoliberalism. While Foucault declares that his analysis of this tradition is primarily descriptive, I argue that he continually questions whether neoliberalism is less disciplinary and biopolitically normalizing than traditional forms of liberalism. Although Foucault does not endorse
Leonard D'Cruz
wiley   +1 more source

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