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ISBN: | 9781474449366 1474449360 9781474459839 1474459838 1474449344 9781474449342
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Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 204-209) and index. Print version record.
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Summary: | Contemporary studies of biopolitics assume that the rise of biopolitical governance entails the eclipse of democracy. The abstract egalitarianism of democratic government appears to be incompatible with the concrete, particularist and individualising operations of biopower. Sergei Prozorov challenges the assumption that the biopolitical governance means the end of democracy, arguing for a positive synthesis of biopolitics and democracy. He develops a vision of democratic biopolitics where diverse forms of life can coexist on the basis of their reciprocal recognition as free, equal and in common. He demonstrates how this vision can be realised and sustained by using examples of our lived experience --
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Other form: | Print version: Prozorov, Sergei. Democratic biopolitics. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2019] 1474449344
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