The Biopolitics of COVID-19: Thinking through, with and 'beyond' Foucault.
This article is heavily inspired by Michel Foucault's lectures on biopolitical power over life as a starting point for thinking about contemporary global response to COVID-19. The article examines how the government of Ghana deployed biopolitical interventions in response to the pandemic. COVID-19 p...
| Publicado en: | Theoria: A Journal of Social & Political Theory Vol. 71; no. 180; pp. 49 - 77 |
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Berghahn Books
Sep2024
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