Books

In this lesson-packed book, Mark Nichter, one of the world’s leading medical anthropologists, summarizes what more than a quarter-century of health social science research has contributed to international health and elucidates what social science research can contribute to global health and the study of biopolitics in the future. Nichter focuses on our cultural understanding of […]

Biopolitics and the ‘Obesity Epidemic’ is the first edited collection of critical perspectives on the ‘obesity epidemic.’ The volume provides a comprehensive discussion of current issues in the critical analysis of health, obesity and society, and the impact of obesity discourses on different individuals, social groups and institutions. Contributors from the UK, Canada, New Zealand […]

For nearly forty years, feminists and patient activists have argued that medicine is a deeply individualizing and depoliticizing institution. According to this view, medical practices are incidental to people’s transformation from patients to patient activists. The Biopolitics of Breast Cancer turns this understanding upside down. Maren Klawiter analyzes the evolution of the breast cancer movement to […]

In this lesson-packed book, Mark Nichter, one of the world’s leading medical anthropologists, summarizes what more than a quarter-century of health social science research has contributed to international health and elucidates what social science research can contribute to global health and the study of biopolitics in the future. Nichter focuses on our cultural understanding of […]

Rethinking Foucault in an Age of Terror focuses on the relationship between literary culture, power, society and war, assessing the critical importance of Michel Foucault’s lecture series Society Must Be Defended for contemporary debates about war and terror in literary and cultural studies, as well as social and political thought.Foucault’s Society Must Be Defended develops his historical investigations of power and […]

Governmentality, Biopower, and Everyday Life synthesizes and extends the disparate strands of scholarship on Foucault’s notions of governmentality and biopower and grounds them in familiar social contexts including the private realm, the market, and the state/military. Topics include public health, genomics, behavioral genetics, neoliberal market logics and technologies, philanthropy, and the war on terror.This book is […]

Este volumen tiene un estudio genealógico de la noción foucaultiana de “biopolítica”. Esto sólo puede lograrse a través de una aclaración de la noción -hasta ahora desatendida en la investigación- de vida en la que se basa la comprensión del término de biopolítica. Esto demuestra que la vida biopolítica no es -como se afirma a […]

“Olvídense de Foucault” – Esta fue la provocadora llamada Jean Baudrillard en la década de 1970. Un cuarto de siglo más tarde, la preocupación de las ciencias sociales por las obras del historiador y filósofo francés es más intensa que nunca. En los últimos años, dos conceptos han llamado la atención de manera particular: gubernamentalidad […]

Focusing on the period between the 1970s and the present, “Life as Surplus” is a pointed and important study of the relationship between politics, economics, science, and cultural values in the United States today. Melinda Cooper demonstrates that the history of biotechnology cannot be understood without taking into account the simultaneous rise of neo-liberalism as […]

Esposito begins with a long and careful discussion of Foucault’s understanding of biopolitics, finding it lacking on two points. Not unlike Lemke, Esposito also finds that in Foucault the veritable relationship between life and law still remains enigmatic. One is never sure in Foucault if biopolitics, as part of the evolution of governmentality in the […]

Popular culture in this “biological century” seems to feed on proliferating fears, anxieties, and hopes around the life sciences at a time when such basic concepts as scientific truth, race and gender identity, and the human itself are destabilized in the public eye. Tactical Biopolitics suggests that the political challenges at the intersection of life, […]

Este ensayo filosófico propone desentrañar las alternativas, quizá las “vías de salida”, que subyacen en el pensamiento de Michel Foucault frente a los problemas y laberintos tejidos en su propia construcción teórica. Para muchos, la teoría “foucaultiana” es una de las críticas más radicales de la modernidad que se hayan articulado en la filosofía contemporánea. […]

Polygraph 18: Biopolitics, Narrative, Temporality This issue of Polygraph takes up the recent theories of Foucault, Deleuze, Agamben, and Hardt & Negri about the contemporary reformation of political forces around the issue of life. While these thinkers all present different pictures of what biopolitics might mean for the present, they are united in identifying life […]

Lemke sitúa el acercamiento de Foucault a la biopolítica en el proyecto de una genealogía de las formas de gubernamentalidad. Visto en este contexto, la biopolítica denota el uso de las concepciones de normalidad derivadas de las ciencias humanas y naturales con el fin de construir la política como un poder normalizador. Esta facultad de […]