Critical Biopolitics of the Post-Soviet

From Populations to Nations

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Critical Biopolitics of the Post-Soviet

From Populations to Nations

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This book is a critical attempt to cast a biopolitical gaze at the process of subjectification of Russia, Ukraine, Georgia, and Estonia in terms of multiple and overlapping regimes of belonging, performativity, and (de)bordering. The authors strive to go beyond the traditional understandings of biopolitics as a set of policies corresponding to the management and regulation of (pre)existing populations. In their opinion, biopolitics might be part of nation building, a force that produces collective political identities grounded in the acceptance of sets of corporeal practices of control over human bodies and their physical existence. For the authors, to look critically at this biopolitical gaze on the realm of the post-Soviet means also to rethink the correlation between the biopolitical vision of the post-Soviet and the biopolitical epistemology on the post-Soviet, which would demand a new vocabulary. The critical biopolitics might be one of these vocabularies, which would fulfill this request.

Table of Contents

Introduction. Mapping Biopolitical Routes

Chapter 1: Biopolitics Beyond Foucault and Agamben

Chapter 2: Biopolitics a-la Russe

Chapter 3: Europe as a biopolitical space

Chapter 4: Biopower in Times of Post-Politics: Juxtaposing Ukraine and Georgia

Conclusion: The Biopolitical Gaze: Looking beyond the Post-Soviet

Product details

Published 29 Nov 2019
Format Ebook (PDF)
Edition 1st
Extent 1
ISBN 9781978753389
Imprint Lexington Books
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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