NOVE REPRODUKTIVNE TEHNOLOGIJE – NOVI OBLICI MOĆI NAD TELOM
NEW REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGIES – NEW FORMS OF POWER OVER THE BODY

Summary/Abstract: The paper points to the 1970's and the transformations which occurred in the fields of economy, society, politics, culture and technology, and which led to changes in the perceptions people had of themselves and the world as a whole. The processes of globalization, industrialization and commoditization of different social spheres served as useful in the analysis of theoretical viewpoints suggested by M. Foucault, and which touch on the relationship between the body, biopower and biopolitics. Keeping in mind this author's claims that the body is always a part of relations of power in a society, I am of the opinion that the analysis of the development and application of new reproductive technologies is an adequate phenomenon to test these claims on. The importance of dealing with an issue like this rests on the assumption that contemporary biological and medical technologies became a new way to analyze the operation of biopower - and biopolitics in society, as Foucault signified the processes of the distribution of power, establishing control, normalizing and disciplining human life.

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