The 2015 Baltimore Protests: Human Capital and the War on Drugs.
In order to show how what Michel Foucault described as Chicago School neoliberalism in The Birth of Biopolitics devalues human life while masking that devaluation, I examine the 2015 death of Freddie Gray in Baltimore, Maryland, and the following civil unrest. Through an exploration of the concept o...
| Publicado en: | Foucault Studies no. 24; pp. 34 - 58 |
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