Biopower

Related Terms:

technique sovereign population necropolitics biopolitics traditional

Noun

Definition: The sum of the various techniques used by modern nation-states to control not individual subjects but their entire populations, as contrasted with traditional modes of power based on the threat of death from a sovereign.

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