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Sex, life, death, geography: fragmentary remarks inspired by ‘Foucault's population geographies’
Author(s) -
Philo Chris
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
population, space and place
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.398
H-Index - 68
eISSN - 1544-8452
pISSN - 1544-8444
DOI - 10.1002/psp.369
Subject(s) - michel foucault , subject (documents) , sociology , population , biopower , politics , epistemology , social science , demography , philosophy , political science , law , library science , computer science
This paper is prompted by Stephen Legg's contribution to the journal on the subject of ‘Foucault's population geographies’. It provides a brief appreciation of Legg's contribution, and uses his claims as a platform for reflecting further on what attention to the work of Michel Foucault – the French philosopher‐historian – can bring to the table of population geography. More specifically, it is argued that Foucault's concern for sex, its bio‐politics and bio‐history could be more explicitly foregrounded in the subdiscipline. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.