Aylan, Isis, Begum, Grenfell, Trump. Harambe, Guantanamo, Syria,
Brexit, Johnson. COVID, migrants, trolling, George Floyd, Trump!
Gazing over the fractured, contested territories of the current
global situation, Watkin finds that all these diverse happenings
have one element in common. They occur when biopolitical states, in
trying to manage and protect the life rights of their citizens,
habitually end up committing acts of coercion or disregard against
the very people they have promised to protect. When states tasked
with making us live find themselves letting us die, then they are
practitioners of a particular kind of force that Watkin calls
bioviolence. This book explores and exposes the many aspects of
contemporary biopower and bioviolence: neglect, exclusion,
surveillance, regulation, encampment, trolling, fake news,
terrorism and war. As it does so, it demonstrates that the very
term 'violence' is a discursive construct, an effect of language,
made real by our behaviours, embodied by our institutions and
disseminated by our technologies. In short, bioviolence is how the
contemporary powers that be make us do what they want. Resolutely
interdisciplinary, this book is suitable for all scholars, students
and general readers in the fields of IR, political theory,
philosophy, the humanities, sociology and journalism.
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