Bio-Political Geographies

Bibliographic Data

ID5877606
AuthorsKolson Schlosser (0000-0003-2729-6000, Western Kentucky University, corresponding author)
Year2008
Volume2
Issue5
Pages1621-1634
Publication date2008-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueGeography Compass (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1749-8198 • E-ISSN: 1749-8198
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1749-8198.2008.00163.x
OpenAlexW2014422355
LanguageEN
Citations received29
References cited42

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

Biopower · Economics · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Focus (optics) · Order (exchange) · Political geography · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Social science · Sociology · Sovereignty · Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality Studies · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Law · Philosophy