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Call for Papers - ISSJ N° 203 - Biopower and Biopolitics: Bodily Control, Bodily Resistance
The International Social Science Journal
UNESCO/Wiley-Blackwell
 
Modernity narrativized bodily control through various processes of reification and discipline organized through monolithic paradigms of top-down institutional and governmental power. However, as power becomes more and more decentered and bodies themselves become (dis)organized in more network-oriented and dispersed manners, classical paradigms of reification give way to new forms of bodily control, discipline, and construction.

With an aim to move beyond Foucault’s prescient reflections on biopolitics and governmentalty or rather, rethink them in light of contemporary technological and societal mutation, the International Social Science Journal solicits papers on “Biopower and Biopolitics: Bodily Control, Bodily Resistance.”

This issue of the ISSJ seeks to interrogate the nexus of bodily control, surveillance, population organization, and identity/subjectivity through interrogating both discursive and empirical techniques for constructing and delimiting the body. Of equal interest are the various means by which paradigms for domesticating and harnessing the body are subverted through novel articulations of biopower. We welcome contributions that touch on any of the following themes:
  1. The surveillance of bodies: new paradigms of disciplinarity.
  2. Statistical approaches to the bodies and populations and profiling.
  3. Institutional methods of bodily control and their theoretical underpinnings: Police, prisons, military etc..
  4. The dialectic of the productive body and the superfluous body.
  5. Disease control.
  6. The virtualization of the body and the interstices between embodiment and virtual identity.
  7. Bodies reduced to organs and genetic codes.
  8. Bodies as weapons – new modes of “biopower.”
Contributions can emerge from any discipline and theoretical orientation.

Please send abstracts and queries to S. Romi Mukherjee by 20 February 2010. Final articles expected for July 2010. E-mail: s.mukherjee@unesco.org


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