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International Conference on Biopolitics and Sexuality - (ICBS-25)

21st-22nd April 2025, Antwerp, Belgium

Call For Papers

  • Biopolitics
  • Biology and politics
  • Various definitions
  • Michel Foucault
  • Giorgio Agamben
  • Biopolitical control
  • Biopolitical body
  • Bio-power
  • Discipline and biopolitics
  • Power and subject
  • Race and biopolitics
  • Sexuality and biopolitics
  • Gender and biopolitics
  • Security as biopolitics
  • Neuropower
  • Technology
  • Biopoliticized state
  • Biopolitical governmentality
  • Extension of state power over both the physical and political bodies of a population
  • Non-Foucauldian bio-power and biopolitics
  • Foucauldian biopolitics
  • New rationality
  • Foucault’s methodology and key concepts
  • Biopolitics in the context of power over life
  • Two technologies of power
  • From police to security
  • Liberal governance and its biopolitics
  • Philosophical implications of liberalism
  • Pastoral power, welfare politics and medicine
  • Neo-liberalism
  • Policy of society
  • Civil society