Biopolitics, Security and Violence

Abstract

The panel focuses on the relation between biopolitical rationalities of government, directed towards promoting, optimizing and protecting life, and the recourse of governments to political violence in the name of the very life that is to be protected. While this paradox of the collapse of biopolitics into its opposite has been noted since Foucault's inaugural work, contemporary studies of biopolitics both elaborate and intensify it, frequently arguing for the indissociability of biopolitics and thanatopolitics. The papers in this panel will critically engage with these studies both theoretically and empirically.

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From Totalitarian Violence to the Administration of Vital Processes: Arendt and Biopolitics Reconsidered	View Paper Details
Promises of freedom in violent times: On the neoliberal entanglement of biopolitics and necropolitics	View Paper Details
Perversion by Association - Gays and Liberals in Putin's Russia	View Paper Details