Bioviolence : how the powers that be make us do what they want /: how the powers that be make us do what they want. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: William Watkin.
• Authors: Watkin, William
• Contents: Preface Introduction: Michel Foucault, Biopolitics and the Abolition of Violence Part One: Regulatory Bioviolence Chapter 1 – Aylan Kurdi and the Index of Responsibility Chapter 2 – The Construction of Life: Specie-fication, Race War and Immunitas Chapter 3 – Rise of the Paedophobes! Or the Coercive Power of Norms, Regulation, Population and Massification in the Case of Migrant Children Chapter 4 – Death on the Beaches: Bioviolence Defined Part Two: Humanimals and Bare life Chapter 5 – #Harambe and the Construction of Life Chapter 6 – Humanimals and the Abolition of Life Part Three: Decapitation and the Digital Caliphate Chapter 7 – ISIS and the Art of Decapitation Chapter 8 – Biohistory: The Human, The Head, The Tool, The Cut and The Tribe Part Four: The Global Camp Chapter 9 – Days of Raqqa and the Bethnal Green Girls Chapter 10 – Shamima Begum, our Femina Sacra Chapter 11 – Reading Guantanamo or Camp as Coercion Part Five: 2020, I can’t breathe Chapter 12 – George Floyd and #BlackLivesMatter: Thoughts Chapter 13 – Herd Immunity: COVID and Coercion Conclusion: Apologia for a Theory of Political Acéphalism
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 320.01; Biopolitics; Violence -- Social aspects; Power (Social sciences) -- Political aspects; Social control; State, The
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000386851; 9781000386806; 9781003006015
• Related ISBNs: 9780367438173; 9780367438180
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