English Explanatory Dictionary

biopolitics

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The interdisciplinary studies relating biology and political science.
  2. Politics (style of government) that regulates populations through biopower.
  3. Anticapitalist insurrection using life and the body as weapons.
  4. The political application of bioethics.
  5. A political spectrum that reflects positions towards the sociopolitical consequences of biotechnology.

Word forms

biopolitics

Etymology

From bio- + politics. Sense 2 was developed by Michel Foucault in The History of Sexuality (1976), sense 3 by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri in Empire (2000).

Related words

biopolitical biopolitician
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