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"The concept of biopolitics has been one of the most important and widely used in recent years in disciplines across the humanities and social sciences. In Biopolitics, Mills provides a wide-ranging and insightful introduction to the field of biopolitical studies. The first part of the book provides a much-needed philosophical introduction to key theoretical approaches to the concept in contemporary usage. This includes discussions of the work of Michel Foucault, Giorgio Agamben, Hannah Arendt, Roberto Esposito, and Antonio Negri. In the second part of the book, Mills discusses various topics across the categories of politics, life and subjectivity. These include questions of sovereignty and governmentality, violence, rights, technology, reproduction, race, and sexual difference. This book will be an indispensable guide for those wishing to gain an understanding of the central theories and issues in biopolitical studies. For those already working with the concept of biopolitics, it provides challenging and provocative insights and argues for a ground-breaking reorientation of the field."--Provided by publisher.

A new regime of power : Foucault -- Biopolitics as thanatopolitics : Agamben -- Totalitarianism and the political animal : Arendt -- Affirmative biopolitics : Negri and Esposito -- Politics : sovereignty, violence, rights -- Life : biology, technology, reproduction -- Subjectivity : persons, race, gender

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Life as the Basis of Politics -- 2. Life as an Object of Politics -- 3. The Government of Living Beings: Michel Foucault -- 4. Sovereign Power and Bare Life: Giorgio Agamben -- 5. Capitalism and the Living Multitude: Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri -- 6. The Disappearance and Transformation of Politics -- 7. The End and Reinvention of Nature -- 8. Vital Politics and Bioeconomy -- 9. Prospect: An Analytics of Biopolitics -- Notes -- References -- Index -- About the Author

Here is an important book for social scientists interested in the influence of gender on certain types of behavior. Several perspectives are presented on the general topic of biopolitics and gender, including the points of view of brain science, endocrinology, ethology, psychophysiology, and such conventional interests as political attitudes, socialization, participation, social structure, and political hierarchy. The varied and provocative ideas explored in this volume will broaden discussions of gender beyond an exclusive focus on sex links to oppression and discrimination

Introduction: Challenging the Political - Religious Actors and Religious Arguments in Liberal Democracies (Mirjam Weiberg-Salzmann and Ulrich Willems) -- Part I: Catholic-Latin states with low level or little religious pluralism -- Discursive Strategies of Catholic Churches in Assisted Reproduction Technology Regulation: Poland and Spain in Comparison (Anja Hennig) -- The Role of Religion in Debates on Embryo Research and Surrogacy in France (Jennifer Merchant) -- Embryonic Silences: Human Life Between Biomedicine, Religion, and State Authorities in Austria (Ingrid Metzler and Anna Pichelstorfer) -- Religion and Biopolitics in Ireland (Mirjam Weiberg-Salzmann) -- Part II: Protestant(-English) states with high or moderate level religious pluralism -- Biotechnology and the Non-religious Uses of God Talk (John H. Evans) -- The Political Debate on Embryo Research in New Zealand and the Role of Religious Actors and Arguments (David Gareth Jones) -- The Political Debate on Embryo Research in Australia and the Role of Religious Actors and Arguments (Frank O'Keeffe and Kevin McGovern) -- Part III: Protestant(-Scandinavian) states with low level religious pluralism -- The Status of the Human Embryo: A Case Study of Embryo Experiments and Embryo Research in Denmark (Jacob Dahl Rendtorff) -- Religion and Biopolitics in Sweden (Göran Hermerén and Mats Johansson) -- Negotiating Embryo Politics in Norway and Italy (Mirjam Weiberg-Salzmann and Massimiliano Passerini) -- Part IV: Mixed-confession states with high level religious pluralism -- The Role of Religion in the Political Debate on Embryo Research in the Netherlands (Wybo J. Dondorp and Guido M. W. R. de Wert) -- Moralizing Embryo Politics in Germany (Mirjam Weiberg-Salzmann) -- Bioethics and Biopolitics in Switzerland: Stem Cell Research and Pre-Implantation Diagnostics in the Public Discourse (Monika Bobbert and Yvonne Zelter) -- Morality Policies: How Religion and Politics Interplay in Democratic Decision-making in Belgium (Nathalie Schiffino) --

What are phenomena of contemporary biopolitics in the twenty-first century? Foucault's theory of <I>biopolitics as neoliberalism </I>is opposed to post-political theories developed by Agamben, Hardt and Negri and as such - more instructive. Because microstrategy of power is not Foucault's final word on politics, political genealogy opens the space for creative and local critique of biopolitics. And if military interventions, terrorism and wars against terrorism are exemplary phenomena of biopolitics, <I>bellum justum </I>is a <I>contradictio in adjecto</I>. In response to such biop

This volume studies, from different perspectives, the relationship between ancient thought and biopolitics, that is, theories, discourses, and practices in which the biological life of human populations becomes the focal point of political government.

This title provides a theoretically and methodologically new and distinct approach to gender through the frameworks of biopolitics and genealogy, theorising it as a historically specific apparatus of biopower. Through the use of a diverse mix of historical and contemporary documents, the book explores how the problematisation of intersex infant genitalia in 1950s psychiatry propelled the emergence of the gender apparatus in order to socialise sexed individuals into the ideal productive and reproductive subjects of White, middle-class postwar America.

Biopolitics in the Political Thought of Classical Greece / Mika Ojakangas -- "The Government of a Multitude" : Hobbes on Political Subjectification / Marco Piasentier and Davide Tarizzo -- Nietzsche and Biopolitics : Four Readings of Nietzsche as a Biopolitical Thinker / Vanessa Lemm -- Biopolitics Before Foucault : On Benjamin's Critique of Bare Life and Agamben's Theological Genealogy of the "Apparatus" / Bostjan Nedoh -- Foucault, Biopolitics and Aesthetics / Lauri Siisiäinen -- Biopolitics and Socialism : Foucault, Agamben, Esposito / Sergei Prozorov -- Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri on "Postmodern Biopolitics" / Thomas Lemke -- Community, Life and Subjectivity in Italian Biopolitics / Miguel Vatter -- Carl Schmitt, Giorgio Agamben and the "Nomos" of Contemporary Political Life / Nick Vaughan-Williams -- Gender Equality as Bioeconomic Governmentality in a Neoliberal EU / Jemima Repo -- Nature Saved : From the Katechontic to the Eschatological in Contemporary Liberal Biopolitics / Simona Rentea -- Cognitive Capitalism and the Governance of the Prefrontal Cortex / Warren Neidich -- Bodies, Populations, Citizens : The Biopolitics of African Environmentalism / Carl Death -- The Biopolitics of European Border Security / Nick Vaughan-Williams -- Biopolitics of the Global Governance of HIV/AIDS / Jaakko Ailio -- The Biopolitics of Asylum Law in the United States / Ariadna Estévez -- Beyond Biopolitics : Struggles over Nature / Lara Montesinos Coleman and Doerthe Rosenow -- Biopolitics and Human Reproduction / Catherine Mills -- Human Life Between Biology and Law in Germany / Ingrid Metzler -- Genopolitics : Behavioural Genetics and the End of Politics / Martin G. Weiss -- Conclusion : Whither Biopolitics? / Sergei Prozorov