Odpowiadając współczesności. Analityka biopolityki i biowładzy
Answering the Contemporary. Analytics of Bio-politics
and Bio power
Author(s): Jakub SzczęchSubject(s): Museology & Heritage Studies, Politics and society, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: bio-politics; bio-power; contemporary; “life itself ”; bio-medicine;
Summary/Abstract: In this article I try to characterize bio-power and bio-politics and show how these concepts can be useful in description and analyse of selected socio-cultural phenomena of the contemporary. I start from the terminological confusion that can arise here because of previous functioning of bio-power and bio-politics in the scientific and the political discourse. Then I move on to present the ideas of Michel Foucault, who created, somehow misty and sketchy, but still inspiring theoretical background based on these two concepts. Neo-Foucauldian researches (Paul Rabinow, Nikolas Rose, Thomas Lemke, Majia Holmer Nadesan, Mitchell Dean) took the work on developing this heritage.
Journal: Prace Etnograficzne
- Issue Year: 44/2016
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 93-106
- Page Count: 14
- Language: Polish