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Bioviolence: How the Powers That Be Make Us Do What They Want

William Watkin

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Description: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.Resolutely inter-disciplinary, this book is suitable for all scholars, students and general readers in the fields of IR, political theory, philosophy, the humanities, sociology and journalism.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Bioviolence: How the Powers That Be Make Us Do What They Want. To get started finding Bioviolence: How the Powers That Be Make Us Do What They Want, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: 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.Resolutely inter-disciplinary, this book is suitable for all scholars, students and general readers in the fields of IR, political theory, philosophy, the humanities, sociology and journalism.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Bioviolence: How the Powers That Be Make Us Do What They Want. To get started finding Bioviolence: How the Powers That Be Make Us Do What They Want, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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