Biopower
Foucauldian concept of power over populations and life processes. Biopower manages birth rates, health, hygiene, sexuality, life expectancy. Differs from sovereign power (right to kill) by fostering life. Modern states govern through optimization of life. Statistics, medicine, demography are biopolitical tools. Bodies are disciplined; populations regulated. Eugenic policies, public health, reproductive rights involve biopower. Agamben's bare life shows extreme biopolitical control. Biopolitics shapes who lives, how, and who dies. Pandemic governance exemplifies biopower.
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