From the Publisher
“Security, Race, Biopower: Essays on Technologies and Corporeality provides a power account of how, in the global present, biopolitical technologies actualize the logic of obliteration, the operative element in the grammar of raciality. Together the histories, geographies, and case studies assembled in this volume expose how biopolitical equipments, procedures, and processes always already presuppose racial difference and cultural difference as the fundamental descriptors of the threatening global Other. This book is, by far, the best deployment of Foucault’s notion of biopower in the study of security as the privileged mode of management of global subaltern populations.” (Dr. Denise Ferreira da Silva, Director, The Social Justice Institute (GRSJ), University of British Columbia, Canada)
“This cogently argued and deeply researched collection is a work of exemplary scholarship. Holly Randell-Moon and Ryan Tippet have produced a book that has profound politicalimplications, which compels us to rethink our relationship to technologies of medicine, media, surveillance, and war, and which stretches our political imagination to engage with and challenge the ways these technologies regulate our lives and manage populations. (Associate Professor Vijay Devadas, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand)
“This path-breaking anthology brings theories of racialization, the body, and biopower, into conversation with critical science and technology studies perspectives and sets this conversation in the context of the shifting, emergent geographies of globalization. These three threads of bodies, territories, and technologies weave together a diverse, wide-ranging, and highly original set of essays.” ( Victoria Bernal, Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Irvine, USA)
