In and Around Life

This article is a reflection on the concepts of biopower and biopolitics. Mapping some of the main approaches to this topic, the paper highlights a tension between policies that seek to encourage and potentialize life and in­dividuals excluded and left to die. The article involves two main concerns:...

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Main Author: Pedro Paulo Gomes Pereira
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Associação Brasileira de Antropologia 2014-01-01
Series:Vibrant: Virtual Brazilian Anthropology
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/vibrant/1540