Bioviolence how the powers that be make us do what they want / William Watkin.
| Author/creator | Watkin, William, 1970- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | London ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021. |
| Description | xv, 238 pages ; 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Taylor & Francis eBooks |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Preface - Long hard read : the Grenfell tower murders -- Introduction : Michel Foucault, biopolitics and the abolition of violence -- Regulatory bioviolence -- Aylan Kurdi and the index of responsibility -- The construction of life : specie-fication, race war and immunitas -- Rise of the paedophobes! or the coercive power of norms, regulation, population and massification in the case of migrant children -- Death on the beaches : bioviolence defined -- Humanimals and bare life -- #Harambe, and the construction of life -- Humanimals and the abolition of life -- Decapitation and the digital caliphate -- ISIS and the art of decapitation -- Biohistory : the human, the head, the tool, the cut and the tribe -- The gobal camp -- Days of Raqqa and the Bethnal Green girls -- Shamima Begum, our femina facra -- Reading Guantanamo or camp as coercion -- 2020, I can't breathe -- George Floyd and #Black Lives Matter : thoughts on the concrete plantation -- Herd immunities : covid and coercion -- Conclusion : apologia for a theory of political ac©♭phalism. |
| Abstract | "Aylan, Isis, Begum, Grenfell, Trump. Harambe, Guantanamo, Syria, Brexit, Johnson. Covid, migrants, trolling, George Floyd, Trump. Gazing over the fractured, contested territories of the current global situation, Watkin finds that all these diverse happenings have one element in common. They occur when biopolitical states, in trying to manage and protect the life rights of their citizens, habitually end up committing acts coercion or disregard against the very people they have promised to protect. When states tasked with making us live, find themselves letting us die, then they are practitioners of a particular kind of force that Watkin calls bioviolence. This book explores and exposes the many aspects of contemporary biopower and bioviolence: neglect, exclusion, surveillance, regulation, encampment, trolling, fake news, terrorism and war. As it does so it demonstrates that the very term 'violence' is a discursive construct, an effect of language, made real by our behaviours, embodied by our institutions, and dissemination by our technologies. In short, bioviolence is how the contemporary powers that be make us do what they want"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2020053307 |
| ISBN | 9780367438173 (hardback) |
| ISBN | 9780367438180 (paperback) |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |