biopower
English
Etymology
bio- + power. Coined by Michel Foucault.
Noun
biopower (uncountable)
- 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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