Biopower

Synonyms for "biopower"

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Translations

3 translations across 3 languages.

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Finnish

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  • biovalta noun (political technology)

French

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  • biopouvoir noun (political technology)

German

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  • Bio-Macht noun (political technology)

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The third type of power, biopower, emerges from the eighteenth century onward, and is directed toward populations rather than individual bodies.

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