Debating Biopolitics

New Perspectives on the Government of Life

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

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Emerging out of the theoretical and practical urge to reflect on key contemporary debates arising in biopolitical scholarship, this timely book launches an in-depth investigation into the concept and history of biopolitics. In light of tumultuous political dynamics across the globe and new developments in this continually evolving field, the book reconsiders and expands upon Michel Foucault’s input to biopolitical studies. Featuring rigorously structured investigations into the genealogies, dimensions, and practices of biopolitics, this incisive book introduces novel voices and perspectives into the biopolitical corpus. Contributions from eminent scholars investigate core topics of governing populations, community, and sovereignty, as well as exploring areas that remain undertheorized in the field of biopolitics, including the political accounts of non-human entities, developments in sexual health policy, and the biopolitics of time. Broad in scope, the book draws from the foundations of the biopolitical canon to forge new horizons and create opportunities for novel theoretical and empirical analysis. Debating Biopolitics will be an invaluable tool for scholars and postgraduate students of political science and political philosophy. Its empirically driven research will also benefit practitioners and policymakers interested in the biopolitical dimension of decision-making and policy analysis.

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Utgivningsdatum2022-08-05
Mått156 x 234 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
FörlagEdward Elgar Publishing Ltd
ISBN9781800887961

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Contents:Foreword viiiMika Ojakangas and Sergei ProzorovIntroduction 1Marco Piasentier and Sara RaimondiPART I GENEALOGIES1 Subjectivity in Foucault and Agamben: the enigma ofsovereignty and biopolitics 12Sara Dragišić2 Fear, the sovereign, and authority: Roberto Esposito andthe escape from the Hobbesian State 30Vappu Helmisaari3 Governing according to nature: Jean Bodin on climates,humours, and temperaments 49Samuel LindholmPART II DIMENSIONS4 Glenn Gould’s mastery of not-playing: style and manner inthe work of Giorgio Agamben 68Katarina Sjöblom5 Biopolitics of time in Foucault and Agamben 86Jürgen Portschy6 Identities on the border 109Ott PuumeisterPART III PRACTICES7 Governing by prevention: neoliberal management ofsexual health in France 129Théo Sabadel8 Biopolitics of authoritarianism. The case of Russia 151Anastasya Manuilova9 Biopolitics, New Materialism and Latin-Americanconstitutionalism: A linguistic encounter? 171Gonzalo Bustamante-Kuschel10 The two faces of biopolitical theory: genealogies andcurrent approaches 193Marco Piasentier and Sara RaimondiIndex

‘This book is a wonderful guide to how contemporary understandings of life (both biological and political) become central to its governance. This is all the more vital as biopolitics is at the moment perhaps the most dynamic field of thought in the humanities and social sciences. From debates over COVID-19 responses to the governance of climate change, biopolitical framings are at the heart of social and political contestation.’