Rethinking Biopolitics, Race and Power in the Wake of Foucault

被引:42
作者
Macey, David
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关键词
ambivalence; biopolitics; biopower; eugenics; exclusion; Nazism; race;
D O I
10.1177/0263276409349278
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G [文化、科学、教育、体育]; C [社会科学总论];
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03 ; 0303 ; 04 ;
摘要
This article examines the ambivalences in Foucault's elaboration of the concept of biopower and biopolitics. From the beginning, he relates the idea of a power over life to struggle and war, and so to race. In the period of the formation of the nation-state, threats to the unity and strength of the population were thought to come from a contagion by an alien element. In this context, tropes of race became aligned with the 'sciences and technologies of the social' that were emerging as part of biopolitics. They became part of the new rationality of the state, finding expression in projects such as public hygiene and eugenics, and, at the extreme, in Nazism.
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