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Author(s): William Watkin

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Year: 2021

Language: english

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ISBN 10:1000386856
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Author: William Watkin

Bioviolence
How the Powers That Be Make Us Do What They Want

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.

Table contents:

PART ONE Regulatory bioviolence
1 Aylan Kurdi and the index of responsibility
2 The construction of life: Specie-fication, race war and immunitas
3 Rise of the paedophobes!: Or the coercive power of norms, regulation, population and massification in the case of migrant children
4 Death on the beaches: Bioviolence defined
PART TWO Humanimals and bare life
5 #Harambe and the construction of life
6 Humanimals and the abolition of life
PART THREE Decapitation and the digital caliphate
7 ISIS and the art of decapitation
8 Biohistory: The human, the head, the tool, the cut and the tribe
PART FOUR The global camp
9 Days of Raqqa and the Bethnal Green girls
10 Shamima Begum, our femina sacra
11 Reading Guantanamo or camp as coercion
PART FIVE 2020, I can’t breathe
12 George Floyd and #BlackLivesMatter: Thoughts
13 Herd immunity: COVID and coercion
Conclusion: Apologia for a theory of political Acéphalism