biopolitics.
The interdisciplinary studies relating biology and political science.
Meaning & usage
The interdisciplinary studies relating biology and political science.
Politics (style of government) that regulates populations through biopower.
Anticapitalist insurrection using life and the body as weapons.
The political application of bioethics.
A political spectrum that reflects positions towards the sociopolitical consequences of biotechnology.
Where this word comes from
From bio- + politics. Sense 2 was developed by Michel Foucault in The History of Sexuality (1976), sense 3 by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri in Empire (2000).
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