How is the body a site of politics Flashcards
The body is a site of politics in many ways, what do you need to acknowledge in the introduction will fall out of the remit of the essay?
Neoliberal bodies, racism, sexism, along with anthropological concerns such as the family and kin.
How is feminism in relation to body politics?
The body as a site of repression and contestation such as intimate violence or dress norms
Rather than these, how will the essay describe the body as a site of politics?
Argue that there are two keys ways, the first is in regard to sovereignty and to post structuralism, the second is in regard to migration.
What is the first paragraph?
Violence and early 20th century conceptions of sovereignty
What is the argument about early 20th sovereignty?
Even if one takes these conceptions, then their conception in still based on life and their manifestation still the body
What is Schmitt’s idea
Decisionism
How does Agamben relate to Schmitt?
Idea of the state of exception
What does Oksala (2010) argue about Agamben and life?
For Agamben, sovereignty comes from the relationship between political power and biological life
Case study for the camp
Guatanamo bay, there is no denying that it acts on a series of bodies
What does Foucault do as a transition
HIs genealogy documents a change
What is the change that Foucault documents?
Rather than looking at the body as a site of punishment we must now look at it as a site of bio politics and biopwer
How do biopolitics and biopower relate to the body
Takes the body as its object in governance
For society to be governed, what does Foucault argue that governments have to know about?
Stuff like birthrate, death rate and things that make society easy to govern
What does, according to Focuault, medical knowledge produce?
A certain kind of self-governing body based on medical dichotomies that people self-regulate in order to conform to so as to create abnormal bodies
What does this idea of the panopticon link to?
Surveillance
