- Biopolitics
The term "biopolitics" or "biopolitical" can refer to several different yet compatible concepts.
Definitions
# In the work of
Michel Foucault , the style ofgovernment that regulatespopulation s throughbiopower (the application and impact ofpolitical power on all aspects of humanlife ). [cite book|title=Religion and culture: Michel Foucault|author=Michel Foucault, edited by Jeremy R. Carrette|year=1999|id=ISBN 0-415-92362-X]
# In the works ofMichael Hardt andAntonio Negri , anti-capitalist insurrection using life and the body as weapons; examples include flight from power and, 'in its most tragic and revolting form',suicide terrorism . Conceptualised as the opposite ofbiopower , which is seen as the practice of sovereignty in biopolitical conditions. [Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri (2005). "". Hamish Hamilton.]
# The political application ofbioethics .cite book| author = Hughes, James| title =Citizen Cyborg : Why Democratic Societies Must Respond to the Redesigned Human of the Future| publisher = Westview Press| year = 2004| id = ISBN 0-8133-4198-1] cite web | last = Rifkin | first = Jeremy | authorlink = Jeremy Rifkin | title = Fusion Biopolitics | publisher =The Nation | date = January 31, 2002 | url = http://www.thenation.com/doc/20020218/rifkin | accessdate = 2008-03-16]
# Apolitical spectrum that reflects positions towards the sociopolitical consequences of the biotech revolution.
# Politicaladvocacy in support of, or in opposition to, some applications of biotechnology.
# Public policies regarding some applications of biotechnology.
# Political advocacy concerned with the welfare of all forms of life.Fact|date=March 2008Politics and the life sciences
As a field of the academic discipline of
political science , biopolitics is also known as "politics and thelife sciences ". TheAssociation for Politics and the Life Sciences was formed in 1981 and exists to study the field of biopolitics as a subfield of political science. APLS owns and publishes an academic peer-reviewed journal called "Politics and the Life Sciences" (PLS). The journal is edited in theUnited States at theUniversity of Maryland, College Park ’s School of Public Policy, inMaryland . [cite website|title=Association for Politics and the Life Sciences|url=http://www.aplsnet.org/]The Department of Political Science at
Northern Illinois University offers undergraduate and graduate courses in the field of politics and the life sciences. It is the only political science department in the U.S. to offer politics and the life sciences as a graduate field of study. [cite website|title=NIU Departement of Political Science: Politics and the Life Sciences|url=http://www.niu.edu/polisci/graduate/politics.shtml]Notes
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