Biopolitics and Political Space

Sitze, Adam

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“…This allowed it to seem not only justified but necessary to treat people unequally in order to enhance what the Nazi's called a Lebensraum -or a ''living space,'' which is a concrete space where the occupation, partition, and distribution of land is grounded in the duty to care for and enable the multiplication of a specific population. 34 Second, National Socialist ideology rested on the belief that social relations and political problems could ultimately be attributed to biological causes. 35 The Nazi worldview feared tiny, powerful agents corroding the German body, which catalyzed "a vast hygienic experiment" to usher a utopia scrubbed of all diseases -from cancer and mental illness to alien racial elements, writes Rowan Savage.…”

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Making Live and Letting Die in COVID-19: The Biopolitics of Race, Space and Freedom

Randolph

2021

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This article applies discussions of biopolitics and rationalities by governments to "make live" and "let die" as a heuristic for the speculative sorting of bodies and their antibodies as the United States and individual states lurch toward post-COVID life. It considers how governments rationalize the elimination of certain populations in the name of improving the vitality of the dominant group. Sociologist Michel Foucault, who popularized the idea among academics in the late 1970s, called biopolitics the application of "life-producing techniques." Biopolitics operates under the prerogative of whom to "make live" and whom to "let die." Its applications in the last century have rationalized the elimination of perceived outgroups to improve the vitality of the nation-state. This article theorizes that the prerogative to "make live" and "let die" functions as a tacit rationale for negotiating pandemic life. As a cultural agent, COVID has brought into stark relief the burdens of suffering that U.S. society places on marginalized communities, particularly African Americans and Latinx populations; as well as incarcerated and otherwise detained individuals left exposed to virus spread.

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Making Live and Letting Die in COVID-19: The Biopolitics of Race, Space and Freedom

Randolph

2021

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“…A tendency to blame segments of the U.S. population for their poverty and health as opposed to the structural and historic conditions produced by the political economy can easily slip into a rationality for letting die to enhance what the Nazi's called a Lebensraum -or a "living space," which is a concrete space where the occupation, partition, and distribution of land is grounded in the duty to care for, and enable the multiplication of, a specific population (Sitze 2012). The Nazi worldview feared tiny, powerful agents corroding the German body, which catalyzed "a vast hygienic experiment" to usher a utopia scrubbed of all diseases -from cancer and mental illness to alien racial elements, writes savage (2007,409).…”

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Making Live and Letting Die in COVID-19: A Biopolitical Review

Randolph¹

2020

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This article applies discussions of biopolitics and rationalities by governments to <i>make live and let die</i> as a heuristic for the speculative sorting of bodies and their antibodies as state governments lurch toward reopening. It considers how governments rationalize the elimination of certain populations in the name of improving the vitality of the dominant group. This article is based on the theory by sociologist Michel Foucault, who called biopolitics the application of “life-producing techniques” by the state.

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Biopolitics and Political Space

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Making Live and Letting Die in COVID-19: The Biopolitics of Race, Space and Freedom

Making Live and Letting Die in COVID-19: The Biopolitics of Race, Space and Freedom

Making Live and Letting Die in COVID-19: A Biopolitical Review

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