Bioviolence: How the Powers That Be Make Us Do What They Want Watkin William
Bioviolence: How the Powers That Be Make Us Do What They Want Watkin William Aylan, Isis, Begum, Grenfell, Trump. COVID, migrants, trolling, George Floyd, Trump!Gazing over the fractured, contested…
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Bioviolence: How the Powers That Be Make Us Do What They Want Watkin William
Aylan, Isis, Begum, Grenfell, Trump. 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. Harambe, Guantanamo, Syria, Brexit, Johnson.
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. 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. As it does so, it