Biopolitics and Social Change in Italy

Righi, Andrea

doi:10.1057/9780230339392

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“…Nation states are just a particular kind of state-like institution, and a relatively recent one. Biopower-understood in terms of state-like institutions that shape the labor power and thereby also the productivity of human beings (Lazzarato 2002;Negri 2008;Righi 2011;Fortunati 1995;Weeks 2011)-is very old. relative to the citizens of competitor states and in absolute terms. 13 The focus of such state-driven efforts has generally been on economic productivity and, more specifically, on doing better in economic terms than competitor states.…”

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Migration and Cooperative Infrastructures

2018

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A proper understanding of the moral and political significance of migration requires a focus on global inequalities. More specifically, it requires a focus on those global inequalities that affect people's ability to participate in the production of economic goods and non-economic goods (e.g., relationships of intimacy and care, opportunities for self-expression, well-functioning institutions, etc.). We call cooperative infrastructures the complex material and immaterial technologies that allow human beings to cooperate in order to generate human goods. By enabling migrants to access high-quality cooperative infrastructures, migration contributes to the diffusion of technical and sociopolitical innovations. In this way, it positively affects the ability of individuals from poorer countries to participate in the production of human goods, to benefit from such production, and to contribute to human development. Migration can also damage the material and immateri al components of the cooperative infrastructures accessible in both the host and sending countries; these potential downsides of migration should not be ignored, although arguably they can often be neutralized, alleviated, or compensated.

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