Biopolitics is an intersectional field between human biology and politics. It is a political wisdom taking into consideration the administration of life and a locality’s populations as its subject. To quote Michel Foucault, it is “to ensure, sustain, and multiply life, to put this life in order.”
Q. What is the meaning of Foucault?
Discourse, as defined by Foucault, refers to: ways of constituting knowledge, together with the social practices, forms of subjectivity and power relations which inhere in such knowledges and relations between them.
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Q. What is disciplinary power according to Foucault?
DISCIPLINARY POWER & CONSUMER RESEARCH. According to Foucault disciplinary power characterises the way in which the relations of inequality and oppression in modern western societies are (re)produced through the psychological complex.
Q. What means sovereignty?
Sovereignty, in political theory, the ultimate overseer, or authority, in the decision-making process of the state and in the maintenance of order. Derived from the Latin superanus through the French souveraineté, the term was originally understood to mean the equivalent of supreme power.
Q. Why do we need popular sovereignty?
Popular sovereignty means that the government can only exercise authority if it has been given permission to do so by the People. Therefore, popular sovereignty LIMITS THE POWERS OF GOVERNMENT. In a democracy the People delegate their authority to government ONLY FOR THE PURPOSES set forth in their constitution.
Q. Why Is sovereignty a key element of the state?
In political science, sovereignty is usually defined as the most essential attribute of the state in the form of its complete self-sufficiency in the frames of a certain territory, that is its supremacy in the domestic policy and independence in the foreign one.
Q. What is the role of sovereignty?
Sovereignty is one of the oldest political concepts in the world. It is the concept that a state has full, independent authority over a geographic area, to put extremely simple. The implementation of policies, in areas such as the environment, can be affected by issues of sovereignty.
Q. What is the principle of sovereign equality?
Sovereign equality – the principle that all states are equal before the law and domestic behaviour towards citizens and residents is of no business to other states – has long been the sacrosanct foundation of international law.
