Bioviolence : how the powers that be make us do what they want / William Watkin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Watkin, William, 1970- author.

Contributor:

Taylor & Francis eBooks.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Biopolitics.

Violence--Social aspects.

Violence.

Power (Social sciences)--Political aspects.

Power (Social sciences).

Social control.

State, The.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Preface

Long hard read : the Grenfell tower murders

Introduction : Michel Foucault, biopolitics and the abolition of violence

Regulatory bioviolence

Aylan Kurdi and the index of responsibility

The construction of life : specie-fication, race war and immunitas

Rise of the paedophobes! or the coercive power of norms, regulation, population and massification in the case of migrant children

Death on the beaches : bioviolence defined

Humanimals and bare life

#Harambe, and the construction of life

Humanimals and the abolition of life

Decapitation and the digital caliphate

ISIS and the art of decapitation

Biohistory : the human, the head, the tool, the cut and the tribe

The gobal camp

Days of Raqqa and the Bethnal Green girls

Shamima Begum, our femina facra

Reading Guantanamo or camp as coercion

2020, I can't breathe

George Floyd and #Black Lives Matter : thoughts on the concrete plantation

Herd immunities : covid and coercion

Conclusion : apologia for a theory of political acéphalism.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

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Other Format:

Print version: Watkin, William, 1970- Bioviolence

ISBN:

9781000386851

1000386856

9781003006015

1003006019

9781000386806

1000386805

Publisher Number:

40030786113

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