'Governmentality, Biopower, and Everyday Life' synthesizes and extends the disparate strands of scholarship on Foucault's notions of governmentality and biopower and grounds them in the context of familiar social contexts of inquiry including the family, workplace, and the milit…
Biologie und Fortpflanzungsmedizin sind zum Politikfeld geworden. Wir beginnen uns an das Wort 'Biopolitik ' zu gewöhnen. Der lebendige Körper, der biologische Stoff, aus dem die Menschen sind, ist Gegenstand einer politischen Ökonomie neuen Typs. Stammzellen, Samen und andere B…
The intrauterine device (IUD) is used by 150 million women around the world. It is the second most prevalent method of female fertility control in the global South and the third most prevalent in the global North. Over its five decades of use, the IUD has been viewed both as a m…
The biological features of human beings are now measured, observed, and understood in ways never before thought possible, defining norms, establishing standards, and determining average values of human life. While the notion of "bio-politics" has been linked to everything from r…
"The biological features of human beings are now measured, observed, and understood in ways never before thought possible, defining norms, establishing standards, and determining average values of human life. While the notion of "bio-politics" has been linked to everything from …
Offers ways to conceptualize biopolitics as the ground for today's reformulation of governance
