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Bio‐Political Geographies

Author(s) -

Schlosser Kolson

Publication year - 2008

Publication title -

geography compass

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.587

H-Index - 65

ISSN - 1749-8198

DOI - 10.1111/j.1749-8198.2008.00163.x

Subject(s) - politics , sovereignty , power (physics) , order (exchange) , political geography , focus (optics) , sociology , biopower , epistemology , political science , social science , environmental ethics , law , economics , philosophy , physics , optics , finance , quantum mechanics

This article reviews the debate on bio‐politics in order to clarify its many uses and applications in geography. In doing so, I review how bio‐politics is conceived by Foucault, Hardt and Negri, and Agamben, as well as how geographers have employed, added to, or disagreed with their insights. More specifically, I structure this review around how various analysts have understood the relationship between bio‐political power and ‘traditional’ forms of sovereign power, and, relatedly, how a focus by geographers on micro‐scales of analysis can help explore this relationship.

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