Government-in-a-Box, or Understanding Pandemic Measures as Biopolitics
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21665796 |
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| Authors | Neil Balan (0000-0002-3920-5244, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue | COVID-19 ESSAYS |
| Pages | 11-11 |
| Publication date | 2020-03-26 |
| 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.2020.covid-19.10 |
| OpenAlex | W3013698024 |
| Language | EN |
Neil Balan shares this essay in response to the 2020 COVID-19 / coronavirus pandemic. Twenty years of a global war on terror that has degraded into a fuzzy collection of ongoing contingency operations (OCO) has generated one clear outcome: esoteric terms and discourses to imagine, refine, and enact myriad forms of violence. Under the sign of cleansing the planet of bellicose relations and enmity over this twenty-year arc, liberal states have operated with an air of self-congratulation, marvelling at their world-making efforts to secure the life of the human species, making some live, leaving some to die, and making some die (Evans 2011)
Biopower · Contingency · Epistemology · Pandemic · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Global Security and Public Health · Health and Conflict Studies · Law · Philosophy
| Highly cited | No |
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