Biopolitics and national identities: between liberalism and totalization

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2017

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Routledge

Abstract

This is an introductory article to the special cluster on the biopolitical reading of nation-building in post-Soviet countries. The authors explain the advatnages of using the biopolitical approach to countries with hybrid identities, and discuss the totalizing potential of biopolitical narratives

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biopolitics, biopower, national identities, liberalism, totalization, biopoliitika, biovõim, rahvuslik identiteet, liberalism, totalisatsioon

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