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
The paragraph after Foucault considers violence, who argues that Foucault does not give enough attention to violence in his conception of biopolitics?
Mbembe 2000
How does Arednt understand political power?
Violence over an individual
What is it important to understand about violence?
That it can be physical or structural
Based on his criticism of Foucault, what does Mbemebe 2000 come up with?
necropoltiics
What is necropolitics?
How death worlds are created, spaces that render certain people killable
Two examples of necropolitics
Glasgow, US Prison
What is necropolitics often
Racialised
How does necropolitics link to the next paragraph
The Mediterranean as a space for migrant death
How are those at the border analysed through x rays?
As bodies, according to Amoore and Hall 2009
What does a political boundary do?
Regulate bodies
What does Amoore 2006 argue about US Visit
IT looks at bodies deep inside the country as well as those at the geopolitical border
IF one does look at race in regard to the body being a site of politics, what needs to be analysed
Ontological vs. epistemological argument
Which, out of the ontological and epistemological arguments is linked to Non representational theory and those such as thrift?
Ontological
How can ideas from Agamben be related to body politics?
The state of exception
What is embodied about the state of exception?
For example in prisons, because the body has been denied any other power and reduced to bare life, they have no resistance. Thus, the hunger strike becomes one of their few available avenues of resistance.
What is the fundamental distinction that bare life rests on?
Bios vs zoe
