Tyranny vs. Freedom? On the Liberal Apparatus of Biopolitical Security
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21665792 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jonathan Short (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 41 |
| Pages | 141-149 |
| Publication date | 2020-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | TOPIA Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1206-0143 • E-ISSN: 1916-0194 |
| Publisher | University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3138/topia-017 |
| OpenAlex | W3112513526 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 1 |
This article takes a critical look at the demonstrations against the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown through an analysis of Foucault’s biopolitics of liberal security. The idea, as many of the protestors contended, that the lockdown was a form of governmental tyranny, which they juxtaposed to the freedom of reopening, is criticized as baseless. Against this view, Foucault shows that economic freedom is part of the governmental apparatus of liberal security, itself a crucial feature of modern biopolitics. Further, the article shows how these conditions of liberal freedom the demonstrators seek is predicated on a biopolitics of economic sacrifice that coincides with the racialization of the population
Biopower · Law and economics · Liberalism · Political science · Politics · Population · Sociology · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Global Security and Public Health · Law
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,25 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |