"biopolitical" meaning in All languages combined

See biopolitical on Wiktionary

Adjective [English]

Forms: more biopolitical [comparative], most biopolitical [superlative]
Etymology: From bio- + political. Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|bio|political}} bio- + political Head templates: {{en-adj}} biopolitical (comparative more biopolitical, superlative most biopolitical)
  1. Of or pertaining to biopolitics. Derived forms: biopolitically Translations (of or pertaining to biopolitics): biopoliittinen (Finnish), biopolitisch (German)
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          "text": "Foucault argued in several works in the mid-1970s that one cannot understand the passage from the “sovereign” state of the ancien régime to the modern “disciplinary” state without taking into account how the biopolitical context was progressively put at the service of capitalist accumulation […]",
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          "ref": "2016, Antje Dallmann, Eva Boesenberg, Martin Klepper, Approaches to American Cultural Studies, page 143:",
          "text": "A global corporate power, Del Rio Inc., attempts to refunction a Mexican peasant culture of small-holders for biopolitical exploitation by commodifying the water that sustains their way of life.",
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