A report by Olly Zinetti, Open University The session, ‘Re-doing Biopolitics’, was rooted in conceptions of biopolitics derived in particular from Esposito’s text, Bios: Biopolitics and Philosophy (2008). It was from the interconnected nature of livingness the text proposes, and the political consequences affirming such interconnectedness generates, where discussion began. Knowing, then, that biosecurity –… Continue reading Report on ‘Re-doing Biopolitics’ session, RGS-IBG 2011
Month: November 2011
Report on Re-imagining Biopolitics and Biosecurity, RGS-IBG 2011
A report by Krithika Srinivasan, King’s College London I presented a paper entitled ‘Controlling dogs, protecting turtles: Contemporary biopolitics in more-than-human India’ in the HPGRG session ‘Re-imagining biopolitics and biosecurity’ at the RGS-IBG AC 2011. This paper stems from my PhD project, and examines two cases of public debate around human-animal relationships in the world’s largest… Continue reading Report on Re-imagining Biopolitics and Biosecurity, RGS-IBG 2011