Biopower (or biopouvoir in French), coined by French social theorist Michel Foucault, [1] refers to various means by which modern nation states control their populations.

May 10, 2017 · Another seeming limitation with biopower and biopolitics has been its apparent disregard for subjectivity. In Foucault’s focus on a politics of a population and species, the biopolitical subject is …

Nov 9, 2024 · Foucault's concept of biopower highlights how modern states govern life, health, and populations through subtle, pervasive control.

Mar 21, 2024 · Discusses the emergence of biopower in its disciplinary and regulatory forms, with racism as the hinge between the old sovereign right to kill and a new political concern with the life of …

May 30, 2023 · Biopower, on the other hand, focuses on the “species body” and biological processes — “propagation, births and mortality, the level of health, life expectancy and longevity” — through “a …

‘Biopower’ is the term he uses to describe the new mechanisms and tactics of power focused on life (that is to say, individual bodies and populations), distinguishing such mechanisms from those that …

Nov 30, 2025 · A form of political power that revolves around populations (humans as a species or as productive capacity) rather than individuals (humans as subjects or citizens). The focus of much of …

5 days ago · 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 …

In what follows, I will first provide an overview of biopower as Foucault conceives of it. This overview will distinguish biopower from sovereign and disciplinary power, identify and discuss distinctive …

Biopower is a formulation of power believed to be unique to the modern era in that it emphasizes the government of life. The study of biopower was formulated as an analysis of the valuation and …