Feminist Approaches to Biopolitics II: Gender, Work and Neoliberalism

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 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 political economy of contemporary biopolitics, especially in relation to precarity, work, migration, human capital, and neoliberalism in general.

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Foucault, Sexuality and the Neoliberal Biopolitics of Population: Gary Becker’s Economics of Fertility	View Paper Details
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Living on the Edge: Womanhood between Expectations and Fears in Turkey	View Paper Details