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Biopower
Meaning
Noun
●
In Political science:
The
sum
of the various
techniques
used by
modern
nation-states
to control not individual
subjects
but their
entire
populations
, as
contrasted
with
traditional
modes
of power based on the
threat
of
death
from a sovereign.
●
Bioenergy.
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Origin
biopower
English
bio-
English
βίος
Ancient Greek (to 1453)
power
English
poer
Middle English (1100-1500)
poer
Old French (842-ca. 1400)
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