biopower
nounEtymology
From bio- + power, calque of French biopouvoir, coined by Michel Foucault.
- calqued from biopouvoir
Definitions
The sum of the various techniques used by modern nation-states to control not individual…
The sum of the various techniques used by modern nation-states to control not individual subjects but their entire populations, as contrasted with traditional modes of power based on the threat of death from a sovereign.
- The third type of power, biopower, emerges from the eighteenth century onward, and is directed toward populations rather than individual bodies.
Bioenergy.
The neighborhood
- neighborbiopolitics
- neighbornecropower
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for biopower. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA