Feminist Approaches to Biopolitics I: Subjectivity, Resistance and the Everyday

Abstract

Research based on Foucault’s notion of biopolitics has burgeoned in recent years, not only since the publication of the Collège de France lectures, but also developments in Italian political philosophy. Yet, feminist and queer contributions to this literature have largely been marginalised in this new wave of scholarship. The papers in the Feminist Approaches to Biopolitics I and II panels explore the relationship between sex, sexuality, and gender, and biopolitics. Papers focus on for instance particular theoretical or methodological questions that develop, challenge or complicate existing frameworks or analyses of biopolitics. The papers in this panel explore the formation and politics of subjectivity, subjects, and resistance in the context of the governmentality and everyday life.

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