Introduction: The Two Bodies of Biopolitics, Hannah Richter
Part I: The Politics of Life Beyond Foucault
Chapter 1: Foucault and the Two Approaches to Biopolitics, Marco
Piasentier
Chapter 2: The Life Function: The Biopolitics of Sexuality and Race
Revisited, Jemima Repo
Chapter 3: “Measurement of Life”: The Disciplinary Power of Racism,
Hidefumi Nishiyama
Part II: Mapping Intersectional Geographies of the Body: Race,
Gender, Sexuality, Economy
Chapter 4: Homo Sacer is Syrian: Movement-Images from the European
“Refugee Crisis”, Hannah Richter
Chapter 5: The Biopolitical Economy of “Guest” Worker Programs,
Greg Bird
Chapter 6: The Biopolitics of Donation: Gender, Labour and
Motherhood in the Tissue Economy, Maria Fannin
Chapter 7: Mapping the Will for Otherwise: Towards an
Intersectional Critique of the Biopolitical System of Neoliberal
Governmentality, Charlie Yi Zhang
Part III: Embodied Life: Erasure, Contagion, Immunisation
Chapter 8: On the Government of Bisexual Bodies. Asylum Case Law
and the Biopolitics of Bisexual Erasure, Christian Klesse
Chapter 9: A Death-Bound Subject: The Gravedigger of the Unmarked
Mass Graves in Kashmir, Shubranshu Mishra
Chapter 10: Biopolicing the Crisis: Gendered and Racialised “Health
Threats” and Neoliberal Governmentality in Greece and Beyond,
Dimitra Kotouza
Chapter 11: Suffocation and the Logic of Immunopolitics, Benoît
Dillet
Hannah Richter is Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at the University of Hertfordshire, UK, as well as PhD Candidate in Political and Social Thought at the University of Kent, UK.
Hannah Richter should be congratulated on gathering such a rich
collection of research, analysing the biopolitical
mechanisms of racialisation and gender/sexual normalisation and
their specific operational logics. This is a major contribution to
Foucauldian scholarship, with contemporary explorations of how
both governmental and resistant power are produced at the bodily
intersection of race, sex, gender, economic value and citizenship
status.
*David Chandler, Professor of International Relations, University
of Westminster*
A theoretically sophisticated and empirically original text. Its
authors argue with and beyond Foucault on both counts. Most
especially useful is the way the text covers the areas that
Foucault, and others, have been most criticised for neglecting.
Populations and bodies are not what they used to be. Richter and
her contributors take biopolitical analysis into a new age.
*Michael Dillon, Emeritus Professor of Politics, Lancaster
University*
By testing the limits of the notion of population, this collection
of essays shows that Foucault’s biopolitics continues to inspire
original research. Gender, race and economy are constitutive
elements of biopolitical governance, but they also produce
unpredictable assemblages that a unified understanding of
population does not capture. An exciting reading for both
supporters and opposers of Foucault’s biopolitics.
*Federico Luisetti, Professor of Italian Studies, University of St.
Gallen*
Richter and colleagues provide a timely engagement with the
often-forgotten problem of embodied governmental production. By
creatively challenging the continuous, if normalised, splitting of
the two bodies of governmental power, they offer a fresh
perspective from which to think about the politically productive
body of the governed. Their work pushes the problem of the
valuation of life two steps further.
*Luis Lobo-Guerrero, Professor of History and Theory of
International Relations, University of Groningen*
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