Biopolitics & the Body: Life, Power, Knowledge (ANTH-0152)

Spring 2027 · ANTH 0152 · Tufts University · 3 credits · Undergraduate

Theories and ethnographies of biopolitics and biopower. What happens when biological life (including that of humans) becomes a site for power and management? Reading of conceptual and ethnographic texts at the intersection of science, medicine, the state, and capital. Topics include neoliberal governmentality, hegemony of interventionist biotechnologies, bioethics, biosecurity and management of risk, biocapitalism, necropolitics, logics of social abandonment and disposability, political rights, and projects of biological and social enhancement.

Course codes: ANTH-0152, ANTH 0152, ANTH0152, ANTH-152, ANTH 152, ANTH152, STS-0152, STS 0152, STS0152, STS-152, STS 152, STS152, WGSS-0151, WGSS 0151, WGSS0151, WGSS-151, WGSS 151, WGSS151

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