Responsibilization in contemporary Swedish crisis management: expanding ‘bare life’ biopolitics through exceptionalism and neoliberal governmentality

[Vulnerability and bare life: bioethics and biopolitics today].

The study had the objective of analyzing the notion of vulnerability that is used by bioethics to debate research involving human beings today, from reflections on biopolitics in contemporary culture. For this, the starting point was Giorgio Agamben's reading of Foucault's model of power (Sovereignty and Biopolitics), with the aim of subsequently analyzing the notion of bare life: "life without...

Vulnerability and bare life: bioethics and biopolitics today

The study had the objective of analyzing the notion of vulnerability that is used by bioethics to debate research involving human beings today, from refl ections on biopolitics in contemporary culture. For this, the starting point was Giorgio Agamben’s reading of Foucault’s model of power (Sovereignty and Biopolitics), with the aim of subsequently analyzing the notion of bare life: “life withou...

From Scientific Racism to Neoliberal Biopolitics

spatializing states: toward an ethnography of neoliberal governmentality

In this exploratory article, we ask how states come to be understood as entities with particular spatial characteristics, and how changing relations between practices of government and national territories may be challenging long-established modes of state spatiality. In the first part of this article, we seek to identify two principles that are key to state spatialization: vertically (thestate...

Expansionism, Extremism, and Exceptionalism in Life

This article explores how taking physical cosmology and the entities that populate its fringes on their own terms might prompt anthropology to rethink what and how it thinks of life. Physical cosmologists work with inanimate matter that lies at the frontier of existential possibility, positing scales and concepts that seem to negate commonsense notions of life and nonlife. Although a common rea...