SOSC 1801 Lecture Notes - Lecture 47: Urban Renewal, Biopower, Herd Immunity

• School: York University
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOSC 1801
• Professor: Denielle Elliott

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Disciplinary power - use of spatial organization (architecture), time (timetables), activities (drills, posture, movement), and surveillance to control the behaviour at the level of the individual body. Individuals become easier to manage because they are trained to discipline themselves to act in line with the wishes of the person or organization that controls them. Biopower biopower is concerned in fostering a healthy population (or social body) through managing the births, deaths, reproduction and illnesses and eliminating threats to life. Particular technologies and techniques are used to govern human social and biological processes. Examples: vaccination programs, public hygiene, birth control, property and life insurance, population statistics. > vaccination programs are intended to protect the overall population (herd immunity) If you ha(cid:448)e i(cid:374)sura(cid:374)(cid:272)e (cid:894)for property & life(cid:895) you(cid:859)ll (cid:271)e (cid:272)o(cid:448)ered if disasters happe(cid:374)s (not always what happens though) Italian philosopher giorgio agambem developed this notion of bare life.