Debating biopolitics : new perspectives on the government of life / edited by Marco Piasentier, Sara Raimondi.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.

Raimondi, Sara, editor.

Piasentier, Marco, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Biopolitics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (228 pages)

Place of Publication:

London, England ; Northampton, Massachusetts : Edward Elgar Publishing, [2022]

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Front matter

Copyright

Contents

Contributors

Foreword

Introduction

PART I Genealogies

1. Subjectivity in Foucault and Agamben: the enigma of sovereignty and biopolitics

2. Fear, the sovereign, and authority: Roberto Esposito and the escape from the Hobbesian State

3. Governing according to nature: Jean Bodin on climates, humours, and temperaments

PART II Dimensions

4. Glenn Gould's mastery of not-playing: style and manner in the work of Giorgio Agamben

5. Biopolitics of time in Foucault and Agamben

6. Identities on the border

PART III Practices

7. Governing by prevention: neoliberal management of sexual health in France

8. Biopolitics of authoritarianism. The case of Russia

9. Biopolitics, New Materialism and Latin-American constitutionalism: a linguistic encounter?

10. The two faces of biopolitical theory: genealogies and current approaches

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Piasentier, Marco Debating Biopolitics

ISBN:

1-80088-797-3