Browsing College of Arts, Social Sciences and Celtic Studies by Subject "Biosocial power"
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Childhood, biosocial power, and the anthropological machine : life as a governable process?
(Maney Online, 2014-11)This article examines how childhood has become a strategy that answers to questions concerning the (un)governability of life. The analysis is organized around the concept of biosocial power, which is shown to be a ... -
Governing the future: children's health and biosocial power
(Manchester University Press, 2017-05-31)Hannah Arendt’s concept of natality spans birth and action, which combine to inaugurate the new. Natality is used here to examine childhood as a prefigurative form of biopolitics. This concerns practices that seek ...