Foucault: Biopower, Governmentality, and the Subject

I look at Michel Foucault’s ideas about social and political power through a number of concepts - biopower, governmentality, and the subject. Foucault developed his understanding of power throughout a number of texts, including ’Why Study Power?’, the lectures collected in ’Security, Territory, and Population’, and the selected interviews in ’Power/Knowledge’. importantly for Foucault, biopower shapes individuals as well as constraining them. Modern power is very different to the juridical power that soc