Biopolitics: Meanings and Effects

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In this course, we will analyze the significance of the notion of “biopolitics”--a label that refers to the institutional “administration of life” and aims to articulate the way political power translates into governmental efforts to control and regulate what populations can and should do with their bodies. We will consider the place of biopolitics within the broader genealogy of political thought and interrogate the theoretical and practical basis of its emergence and proliferation.