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Biopower (Paperback)
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Biopower (Paperback)
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Michel Foucault's notion of "biopower" has been a highly fertile
concept in recent theory, influencing thinkers worldwide across a
variety of disciplines and concerns. In The History of Sexuality:
An Introduction, Foucault famously employed the term to describe "a
power bent on generating forces, making them grow, and ordering
them, rather than one dedicated to impeding them, making them
submit, or destroying them." With this volume, Vernon W. Cisney and
Nicolae Morar bring together leading contemporary scholars to
explore the many theoretical possibilities that the concept of
biopower has enabled while at the same time pinpointing their most
important shared resonances. Situating biopower as a radical
alternative to traditional conceptions of power-what Foucault
called "sovereign power"-the contributors examine a host of matters
centered on life, the body, and the subject as a living citizen.
Altogether, they pay testament to the lasting relevance of biopower
in some of our most important contemporary debates on issues
ranging from health care rights to immigration laws, HIV prevention
discourse, genomics medicine, and many other topics.
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