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The Routledge Handbook of Biopolitics (Paperback)
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The Routledge Handbook of Biopolitics (Paperback)
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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 interdisciplinary orientation, addressing the rationalities
of power over living beings in diverse spatial and temporal
contexts. The development of the research on biopolitics in recent
years has been characterized by two tendencies: the increasingly
sophisticated theoretical engagement with the idea of power over
and the government of life that both elaborated and challenged the
Foucauldian canon (e.g. the work of Giorgio Agamben, Antonio Negri,
Roberto Esposito and Paolo Virno) and the detailed and empirically
rich investigation of the concrete aspects of the government of
life in contemporary societies. Unfortunately, the two tendencies
have often developed in isolation from each other, resulting in the
presence of at least two debates on biopolitics: the
historico-philosophical and the empirical one. This Handbook brings
these two debates together, combining theoretical sophistication
and empirical rigour. The volume is divided into five sections.
While the first two deal with the history of the concept and
contemporary theoretical debates on it, the remaining three
comprise the prime sites of contemporary interdisciplinary research
on biopolitics: economy, security and technology. Featuring
previously unpublished articles by the leading scholars in the
field, this wide-ranging and accessible companion will both serve
as an introduction to the diverse research on biopolitics for
undergraduate students and appeal to more advanced audiences
interested in the current state of the art in biopolitics studies.
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