Probiotic environmentalities: rewilding with wolves and worms by Lorimer, J

“…It examines the operation of an environmental mode of biopower associated with deliberate efforts to engineer ecologies through the introduction of keystone species. …”

Variation of dystopian control systems in selected novels by Huxley, Vonnegut, and Delillo by Khorzughi, Ruzbeh Babaee

“…I examine Huxley’s selected dystopian novels via the concept of biopower that manipulates people and turns them into docile bodies with disciplined minds. …”
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In love with machines: The bioethical debate about sexual automation by Elen Cristina Carvalho Nascimento, Eugenio da Silva, Rodrigo Siqueira-Batista

“…Beyond a binary polarization, the bioethical perspective recalls the Foucaultian concepts of biopolitics and biopower to situate the problems with the mechanization of intimate relationships. …”
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To Make Live and Let Die: On Sovereignty and Vulnerability in the EU Migration Regime by Mareike Gebhardt

“…In a first step, Foucault’s study on biopower and the birth of modern sovereignty as the 'right to make live and let die' is compared to Mbembe’s notion of 'necropolitics', shifting the focus from the management of (migrant) life to the management of (migrant) death. …”
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Genealogies of Disability in Global Governance: A Foucauldian Critique of Disability and Development by Xuan-Thuy Nguyen

“…Using a Foucauldian perspective on the governing of populations in modern states (Foucault 1991), I problematise this politics of disability and development by interrogating the ways in which biopower, through the constructions of modern development frameworks, has shaped our understanding of disability and impairment. …”
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PEDAGOGIES OF THE DATAFIED: MATERIAL FOUNDATIONS FOR LITERACIES OF THE SUBJECT IN THE 21ST CENTURY by Michael Lithgow

“…Learning to navigate and manipulate the material-discursive apparatus in network societies can help individuals and groups apperceive assemblages of biopower while expanding possibilities for shaping subjectivities in datafied contexts.…”
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Biopolítica y filosofía feminista by Amalia Boyer

“…Foucault recognizes diverse forms of political rationality that articulate in a specific way the procedures aimed at resolving the issue of "how to govern", distinguishing between societies of sovereignty, discipline and security. Biopower emerges in the transition from disciplinary societies to societies of security as the articulation of two technologies: the anatomopolitics and biopolitics. …”
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Critical Review on Nanomaterials for Enhancing Bioconversion and Bioremediation of Agricultural Wastes and Wastewater by Bahare Salehi, Lijun Wang

“…Anaerobic digestion (AD), microalgae cultivation, and microbial fuel cells (MFCs) are the major biological processes to convert organic solid wastes and wastewater in the agricultural industry into biofuels, biopower, various biochemical and fertilizer products, and meanwhile, recycle water. …”
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Invasion, Exile, and Resistance: by Shaibal Dev Roy

“…Here, I build on Achille Mbembe’s theory of necropolitics, which in turn embarks on Michel Foucault’s concept of biopower or biopolitics. Mbembe critiques the racist, fascist, and nationalist forces that institutionalize the resurgence of “othering” a community to exclude it from the nation-state and kill it. …”
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Discourses and polarities concerning health promotion in the Brazilian health system by Luciana Kind, João Leite Ferreira-Neto

“…We follow the foucauldian perspective of biopower and resistence to discuss the selected texts and documents related to health promotion that were considered relevant for the purpose of this investigation. …”
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Lockdown scepticism: Australian and American doom discourse on Reddit by Margo Van Poucke

“…Linguistic evidence is provided for how biopower, in its ability to further life or death, is constitutive of the social norms to which both subreddit communities subscribe.…”

What Makes Life Grievable? Discursive Distribution of Vulnerability in the Pandemic by Zuzana Maďarová, Pavol Hardoš, Alexandra Ostertágová

“… This article examines Judith Butler’s concepts of vulnerability and grievability in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic and biopower practices introduced in the name of the protection of the people. …”
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How to govern the urban hydrosocial cycle: archaeo-genealogy of hydromentalities in the Swiss urban water sector between 1850 and 1950 by P. Rattu, R. Véron

“…Results show that two forms of governmentality, namely biopower and neoliberal governmentality, were present in the water sector in the selected period. …”
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“The imaginative means that nature has to extract one’s life” – representation of the aged body in <i>A máquina de fazer espanhóis</i> by Marcelo Franz

“…We use the Michel Foucault’s concept biopower as theoretical support.</p><p>---</p><p> </p><p><strong>DOI: </strong><a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.22409/abriluff.2017n18a395" target="_blank">http://dx.doi.org/10.22409/abriluff.2017n18a395</a></p>…”
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The derivative condition, an aesthetics of resolution, and the figure of the renegade: A conversation by Gerald Nestler, Christian Kloeckner, Stefanie Mueller

“…This interview addresses his reading of the derivative as a world-producing apparatus that shapes the experience of the present by preconfiguring the future, and that provokes a shift from representational to performative speech in the actualization of biopower based on the exploitation of volatility and leverage. …”
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What Makes Life Grievable? Discursive Distribution of Vulnerability in the Pandemic by Zuzana Maďarová, Pavol Hardoš, Alexandra Ostertágová

“… This article examines Judith Butler’s concepts of vulnerability and grievability in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic and biopower practices introduced in the name of the protection of the people. …”
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Managing the Disaster of Covid-19: An Analysis of Public Policy in Odisha on India’s East Coast by Soumendra M. Patnaik

“…Policy ethnographies have often relied on the Foucauldian idea of biopower and biopolitics to elucidate the governance practices in nation states with different rationalities. …”
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Biopolitical geographies of student life: private higher education and citizenship lifemaking in Singapore by Cheng, Y

“…I focus on the analytic lens of biopolitical citizenship as one way to understand how biopower works in and through the material relations and practices of social reproduction. …”

Photography as autobiography. Jo Spence's visual narratives between art, activism, and therapy by Lara De Lena

“…The focus on the woman’s body in contemporary art is an externalization of freedom (or at least a demand or aspiration for it), but it also represents an expression of the ‘biopower’ theorised by Michel Foucault, bringing the idea of a body that is dominated, abused and consumed. …”
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Biopolitical mills. Topographies of Power in Early Peripheral Capitalism by Wiktor Marzec, Agata Zysiak

“…Disciplinary power parceling bodies, biopower<br />providing with population stability, paternalistic gaze of<br />the factory owner and monarchic sovereignty of the tsa-<br />rist rule once met in the Scheibler and Grohman’s indu-<br />strial establishment and nearby workers’ housing estate.…”
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