In and around life

Biopolitics in the Tropics

Bibliographic Data

ID2494428
AuthorsP P G Pereira (0000-0002-0298-2138, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, corresponding author)
Year2013
Volume10
Issue2
Pages13-37
Publication date2013-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueVibrant Virtual Brazilian Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1809-4341 • E-ISSN: 1809-4341
PublisherFapUNIFESP (SciELO) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1590/s1809-43412013000200001
OpenAlexW2004740717
SCIELO_PIDS1809-43412013000200001
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited29

This article is a reflection on the concepts of biopower and biopolitics. Mapping some of the main approaches to this topic, the paper highlights a tension between policies that seek to encourage and potentialize life and individuals excluded and left to die. The article involves two main concerns: one that questions the existence of biopolitical frameworks that end up producing bodies and subjectivities as mere fruits of the exercise of power and control, and, thus, are circumscribed by them; and another that questions how to read this scenario in the tropics. While contemplating these concerns, the text then reflects on the possible limits and potentialities of this conceptual framework

Aesthetics · Biopower · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Sociology · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Law · Philosophy · Race, Genetics, and Society

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