Biopower

manifestations using the Foucauldian notions of biopower, Panopticism and governmentality. The Native Sport and Recreation program existed in Canada from 1972 to 1981. This program was established by Fitness and Amateur…

There are many examples as to why humans feed off the the idea of biopower, but they each deal with their own unique perspectives and understandings of rationalizing fear. Humans enjoy feeling as though they belong to something importantly unique even though we may just be speks in this enormous universe. For me, every…

Liam O’Meara Anthropology 103 Amster 4/4/24. Righteous Dopefiend The "Righteous Dopefiend" by Philippe Bourgois looks into the lives of homeless heroin addicts in San Francisco and sheds light on the daily struggles and the cultural dynamics that shape their existence and public/societal image. This paper aims to identify the main points of the book, examine its key arguments, and explore the book's insights revolving around the marginalized population that is Homeless Drug addicts.…

Everyone is familiar with pollution and greenhouse gasses. They understand that our vehicles pollute, and it is not helping our environment. Our citizens’ march in the street for change and oil companies take the majority of the blame. The bottom line is everyone wants less pollution; however, the reality is that we choose because of convenience. We choose the convenience of driving our own cars, instead of taking the bus to work. Or the convenience of choosing when to depart, rather than having…

Analysis paper: Sovereignty and White Supremacy/Privilege and Inequalities within Gendered Ideologies When one has the mindset that because of your skin color you are worth more and valued as more prestigious and powerful compared to others with a different skin type and that person is is born of Caucasian descent it is called white privilege. White supremacy and privilege are presented in everyday life through racism and sexism ideologies. White supremacy…

numerous ways that pedagogies are developed as ‘biopedagogies’. This concept was developed by Jan Wright (2009) as an addition of Foucault’s notion of bio-power and he states that ‘the notion of biopedagogies is drawn from Foucault’s (1984) concept of ‘biopower’, the governance and regulation of individuals and populations through practices associated with the…

Smartphones, laptops, desktops—as these products are mentioned, one may think of Apple, an American company that sells technological goods, known for being the industry leader for music sales (Brodbeck). Through its input of human creativity, ranging from computer programmers to engineers who create intellectual property, and symbolic meaning, Apple has established itself as a dominant company in the creative industries. However, as the world shifts to a knowledge-based economy reliant on…

In Discipline and Punish, Foucault explains how disciplinary power is used to produce subjects who internalize power and as a result, regulate themselves as their own jailors. Jeremy Bentham’s Panopticon model is brought up as a prime example of a form of technological power used in the mid- 19th Century to generate this disciplinary power. The model uses a tower which is placed at the center of a circular prison building. From this tower, the wardens and guards are able to view any prisoner at…

This self-branding obsession is further illustrated in the ‘Humans of New York (HONY)’ text. This book was likely important to the neoliberal individual as part of defining their version of good-taste and placing emphasis on their own cultural capital. Ideas that suggest the connection between capital and branding obsession become further apparent in this text. Sociologist, Pierre Bourdieu’s habitus framework becomes clear, the importance of the interactions between the individual (habitus),…

Ewald (1990) states “ the juridical mode of governance, characterized by forcible seizure, abduction, or repression and usually culminating in death” (p.138). There is however a shift that takes place here, where biopower takes over to maintain social order, and a modern source of discipline is practiced that moves away from punishment of the body to reforming the soul through regulation, normalization, and supervision. Discipline through normalisation creates certain…