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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
Vernon W Cisney; Nicolae Morar |
ISBN: | 9780226226620 022622662X 9780226226590 022622659X |
OCLC Number: | 981612708 |
Description: | x, 376 p. ; 23 cm |
Responsibility: | edited by Vernon W. Cisney, Nicolae Morar. |
Abstract:
Michel Foucault's notion of "biopower" has been a highly fertile concept in recent theory, influencing thinkers worldwide across a variety of disciplines and concerns. In "The History of Sexuality", Foucault famously employed the term to describe "a power bent on generating forces, making them grow, and ordering them, rather than one dedicated to impeding them, making them submit, or destroying them." With this volume, Vernon W. Cisney and Nicolae Morar bring together leading contemporary scholars to explore the many theoretical possibilities that the concept of biopower has enabled in debates ranging from health care rights to immigration laws, HIV prevention discourse, genomics medicine, and many other topics.
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