Security, Race, Biopower Essays on Technology and Corporeality
"This path-breaking anthology brings theories of racialization, the body, and biopower, into conversation with critical science and technology studies perspectives and sets this conversation in the context of the shifting, emergent geographies of globaliz
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HOLLY RANDELL-MOON AND RYAN TIPPET
Security, Race, Biopower
Holly Randell-Moon • Ryan Tippet Editors
Security, Race, Biopower Essays on Technology and Corporeality
Editors Holly Randell-Moon Department of Media, Film and Communication University of Otago Dunedin, New Zealand
Ryan Tippet Department of Media, Film and Communication University of Otago Dunedin, New Zealand
ISBN 978-1-137-55407-9 ISBN 978-1-137-55408-6 DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-55408-6
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Introduction
Security, Race, Biopower This is a book about technologies. Security, Race, Biopower explores the global abundance of technologies in medicine, media, surveillance, and war that are used to target and extend the lives of people differently in different geographical locations. The contributors show how technologies of population management—the ways in which bodies and lives are moulded to the benefit of governing authorities—are connected to historical and contemporary forms of racism that justify geographical and social inequalities. The book contends that the application and dissemination of contemporary technologies is premised on an economisation of these resources in favour of those who “deserve” life, based on the space and race to which a body belongs. We argue that the theories of French philosopher Michel Foucault on biopower and security are critical to understanding these technological determinations of deserving life. Biopower is broadly defined by Foucault as ‘a t
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