Kearns, Gerard (2014) Governing vitalities and the security state. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 32. pp. 762-778. ISSN 0263-7758

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Abstract

The techniques by which states regulate life are both spatial and geopolitical. Foucault wrote of a broad transition from a state concern with territory focused on regulating threats such as famine and epidemics, to a modern concern with population that prioritised instead a set of everyday dangers that were to be averted by continual action for and upon individuals. In this paper I argue that territoriality is more geopolitical in character and more continually significant than Foucault suggested. This geopolitics implicates a global political economy and forms of imperialism and colonialism occluded by Foucault's state-centric rather than states-centric approach.

Item Type:	Article
Keywords:	Early-modern England; Plague; Health; Biop;olitics; Geopolitics; Geographies; Medicines; HIV/Aids; Origins; History;
Academic Unit:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Geography
Item ID:	7636
Identification Number:	https://doi.org/10.1068/d13002p
Depositing User:	Gerry Kearns
Date Deposited:	21 Nov 2016 14:23
Journal or Publication Title:	Environment and Planning D: Society and Space
Publisher:	SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	Publisher
Use Licence:	This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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