Beyond Biopolitics
Author | : Francois Debrix |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 2013-07-03 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1136643680 |
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Beyond Biopolitics exposes the conceptual limits of critical biopolitical approaches to violence, war, and terror in the post-9/11-War on Terror era.This volume shows that such popular international political theories rely upon frames of representation that leave out of focus a series of extreme forms of gruesome violence that have no concern for the preservation of life, a crucial biopolitical theme. Debrix and Barder mobilize different concepts-horror, agonal sovereignty, the pulverization of the flesh, or the notion of an inhumanity-to-come-to shed light on past and prese.