The Biopolitics of Covid-19
Thinking through, with and ‘beyond’ Foucault
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10830423 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Charles Amo-Agyemang (0000-0002-3357-2019) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 71 |
| Issue | 180 |
| Pages | 49-76 |
| Publication date | 2024-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | THEORIA An International Journal for Theory History and Foundations of Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0495-4548 • E-ISSN: 2171-679X |
| Publisher | Berghahn Books (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3167/th.2024.7118003 |
| OpenAlex | W4403910045 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 27 |
This article is heavily inspired by Michel Foucault's lectures on biopolitical power over life as a starting point for thinking about contemporary global response to COVID-19. The article examines how the government of Ghana deployed biopolitical interventions in response to the pandemic. COVID-19 pandemic laid bare the biopolitics of the current moment, demonstrating the levels of intrusiveness that state power structures have on biological life of the population. The article theorises that the government of Ghana's response to the pandemic indicates that the biopolitical critique of the extension of regulatory governance of life has become blurred in our contemporary times. In conclusion, the article investigates the biopolitics of the pandemic governance from the perspective of conceptualising a ‘beyond’ of such biopolitics, arguing that a critique of existing biopolitics needs to account for its embeddedness in the affirmative modes of biopolitics
2019-20 coronavirus outbreak · Biology · Biopower · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 · Political science · Politics · Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2 · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Law · Medicine · Political Theology and Sovereignty · Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought · Internal Medicine · Virology
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Covid-19 economic shocks and fiscal policy options for Ghana
Die Corona-Gesellschaft
A Critique of Pandemic Reason
Metamorphosis of Biopolitics. A Foucauldian Ecological Perspective and the Challenge of the Pandemic
The Coronavirus
The biopolitical economy of the Covid-19 pandemic and the possibilities for an affirmative biopolitics
State power and the Covid-19 pandemic
Biopower in the age of the pandemic
Power at the heart of the present
Covid-19 and the state in Africa
Immunitarianism
Coronavirus biopolitics
Covid-19 in Africa
Biopolitical Leviathan
Ethics
The biopolitics of fear
Autocratization by Decree
Discipline and Punish
Pandemic modelling and model citizens
Coronavirus, psychoanalysis and philosophy
Exploring the Socio-Economic Impact of Covid-19 Pandemic in Marketplaces in Urban Ghana
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |