Aylan Isis Begum Grenfell Trump. Harambe Guantanamo Syria Brexit Johnson. COVID migrants trolling George Floyd Trump! Gazing over the fractured contested territories of the current global situation Watkin finds that all these diverse happenings have one element in common. They occur when biopolitical states in trying to manage and protect the life rights of their citizens habitually end up committing acts of coercion or disregard against the very people they have promised to protect. When states tasked with making us live find themselves letting us die then they are practitioners of a particular kind of force that Watkin calls bioviolence. This book explores and exposes the many aspects of contemporary biopower and bioviolence: neglect exclusion surveillance regulation encampment trolling fake news terrorism and war. As it does so it demonstrates that the very term ‘violence’ is a discursive construct an effect of language made real by our behaviours embodied by our institutions and disseminated by our technologies. In short bioviolence is how the contemporary powers that be make us do what they want. Resolutely interdisciplinary this book is suitable for all scholars students and general readers in the fields of IR political theory philosophy the humanities sociology and journalism. |Bioviolence How the Powers That Be Make Us Do What They Want | Politics
