Biopolitics, biopower, and the return of sovereignty
Biopolitics ; Concept ; Policy ; Sovereignty
The goal is to draw attention to multiple competing definitions of biopolitics, and in so doing to problematize the term as a catchall category to describe either the nonsovereign or the sovereign operation of power. The AA. develop their own
specifically geographical criticisms of Agamben and Hardt and Negri on the topic of biopolitics.
Gendered biopolitics of public health : regulation and discipline an seafood consumption advisories
Biopolitics ; Fish ; Food consumption ; Health ; Regulation ; Security ; United States of America ; Woman
Advisories are a gendered technology of biopolitics that intensifies the self-disciplining of women as mothers of potential, future children. In making these arguments, the paper draws from Foucault's lectures and from extensive feminist literature
on reproduction and mothering to develop an understanding of biopolitics as an apparatus of power that integrally links liberal regulation and individualized discipline.
The biopolitical border in practice : surveillance and death at the Greece–Turkey borderzones
Biopolitics ; Frontier ; Geopolitics ; Greece ; Human rights ; Migratory flow ; Monitoring ; Political geography ; Territorial control ; Turkey
This paper examines biopolitical control practices at the Greece–Turkey borders and addresses current debates in the study of borders and biopolitics. It explains that while borders are diffusing beyond and inside state territories, their practices
and effects are concentrated at the edges of state territories—ie, borderzones. It concludes that this case demonstrates that biopolitics operates through sovereign territorial controls and surveillance, practices of death and exclusion, and suspension
of rights. This study also highlights the fact that, despite the biopolitical realities, migrants continue to cross the borders.
That coming storm : the Irish Poor Law, colonial biopolitics, and the Great Famine
The A. situates this story of human deprivation and suffering within the context of an evolving colonial biopolitics aimed at regenerating Irish society. Building on the perspectives of M. Foucault, he argues that the Great Famine has been shaped
Against value : accumulation in the oil industry and the biopolitics of labour under finance
Biopolitics ; Capital accumulation ; Employment ; Finance ; Financial market ; Financialization ; Investment ; Labour ; Oil industry ; United States of America
This article examines accumulation in the oil industry in the United States and the biopolitics of labour under finance. Focusing partic-ularly on layoffs, it argues that, instead of inhibiting material accumulation, financialization signals
Drawing on literatures in governmentality, biopolitics, and security, the A. examines the politics of HIV/AIDS, immigration and asylum from 1997 to 2007 with reference to the reactionary press coverage that influenced policy formation and judicial
rulings in this period. He traces the emergence of a “domopolitical” rationality in press reporting in terms of a number of imaginative geographies, and he suggests that they are both biopolitical and connected with the colonial dimensions of the present.
This paper explores turtle conservation in Odisha, India, to map the complicated ways in which animal well-being is pursued in the contemporary world. Using insights from Foucault’s work on biopolitics, it offers an account of conservation
Adaptation ; Biopolitics ; Catastrophe ; Clientelism ; Humanitarian aid ; Jamaica ; Kingston ; Local population ; Political geography ; Political party ; Project ; Resilience
In this article, the A. explores how staff in Jamaica's national disaster management agency engaged with a qualitatively distinct form of collective life in Kingston's garrison districts. Drawing on Marxist and Deleuzian readings of biopolitics
Affect ; Argentina ; Biopolitics ; Buenos Aires ; Consumer behaviour ; Human body ; Shop ; Shopping centre ; Social geography ; Technology ; Trade
literature on materiality, politics and technology. Then, it discusses the mall’s capacity to function as a biopolitical technology as well as an economic one. It concludes that this approach sutures a false binary in the consumption literature between strong
State, peasant, mosquito : the biopolitics of public health education and malaria in early republican Turkey
Anatolia ; Biopolitics ; Communication ; Education ; Governmentality ; Health ; Health policy ; Political geography ; Role of the State ; Rural population ; Turkey ; Village