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Coronavirus biopolitics: the paradox of France’s Foucauldian heritage
In this short paper we analyse some paradoxical aspects of France’s Foucauldian heritage: (1) while several French scholars claim the COVID-19 pandemic is a perfect example of what Foucault called biopolitics, popular reaction instead suggests a biopolitical failure on the part of the government; (2...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7799166/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33428008 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40656-020-00359-2 |
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author | Arminjon, Mathieu Marion-Veyron, Régis |
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description | In this short paper we analyse some paradoxical aspects of France’s Foucauldian heritage: (1) while several French scholars claim the COVID-19 pandemic is a perfect example of what Foucault called biopolitics, popular reaction instead suggests a biopolitical failure on the part of the government; (2) One of these failures concerns the government’s inability to produce reliable biostatistical data, especially regarding health inequalities in relation to COVID-19. We interrogate whether Foucaldianism contributed, in the past as well today, towards a certain myopia in France regarding biostatistics and its relation to social inequalities in health. One might ask whether this very data could provide an appropriate response to the Foucauldian question: What kind of governance of life is the pandemic revealing to us? |
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spelling | pubmed-77991662021-01-12 Coronavirus biopolitics: the paradox of France’s Foucauldian heritage Arminjon, Mathieu Marion-Veyron, Régis Hist Philos Life Sci Notes & Comments In this short paper we analyse some paradoxical aspects of France’s Foucauldian heritage: (1) while several French scholars claim the COVID-19 pandemic is a perfect example of what Foucault called biopolitics, popular reaction instead suggests a biopolitical failure on the part of the government; (2) One of these failures concerns the government’s inability to produce reliable biostatistical data, especially regarding health inequalities in relation to COVID-19. We interrogate whether Foucaldianism contributed, in the past as well today, towards a certain myopia in France regarding biostatistics and its relation to social inequalities in health. One might ask whether this very data could provide an appropriate response to the Foucauldian question: What kind of governance of life is the pandemic revealing to us? Springer International Publishing 2021-01-11 2021 /pmc/articles/PMC7799166/ /pubmed/33428008 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40656-020-00359-2 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
spellingShingle | Notes & Comments Arminjon, Mathieu Marion-Veyron, Régis Coronavirus biopolitics: the paradox of France’s Foucauldian heritage |
title | Coronavirus biopolitics: the paradox of France’s Foucauldian heritage |
title_full | Coronavirus biopolitics: the paradox of France’s Foucauldian heritage |
title_fullStr | Coronavirus biopolitics: the paradox of France’s Foucauldian heritage |
title_full_unstemmed | Coronavirus biopolitics: the paradox of France’s Foucauldian heritage |
title_short | Coronavirus biopolitics: the paradox of France’s Foucauldian heritage |
title_sort | coronavirus biopolitics: the paradox of france’s foucauldian heritage |
topic | Notes & Comments |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7799166/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33428008 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40656-020-00359-2 |
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