Lesley Higgins and Marie-Christine Leps, "Heterotopic World Fiction: Thinking Beyond Biopolitics with Woolf, Foucault, Ondaatje" (Academic Studies Press, 2022)
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Foucault's Biopolitics
Biopolitics, according to Foucault, is the government of life through particular individuals and the general population. It's that cradle to brave shepherding of individual behaviors, all correlated to population management. And it involves security measures, health, education, labor, happiness and pleasure,. All developed to create what we call a normal way of life.
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