Biopolitical Leviathan Understanding State Power in the Era of COVID-19 through the Weberian-Foucauldian Theory of the State

Abstract The coronavirus pandemic made the biopolitics of infection control the core object of states around the world. Globally, states governed spheres usually free of state control, implementing various restrictions, closing down society in the process. This is possible due to the state's ca...

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Published in:	Theoria (Pietermaritzburg) Vol. 71; no. 178; pp. 48 - 74
Main Author:	Gjerde, Lars Erik Løvaas
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	Afrikaans English
Published:	New York Berghahn Books, Inc 01-03-2024
Subjects:	Biopolitics Coronaviruses COVID-19 Discipline Disease control Pandemics Politics Power Society Sovereignty State power Theory
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