Rouse Carolyn M
Princeton University.
Cult Anthropol. 2021 Aug;36(3):360-367. doi: 10.14506/ca36.3.03. Epub 2021 Aug 26.
Anthropologists have used Michel Foucault's thesis on biopolitics to critique modern institutions. Yet while useful, biopolitics is often misapplied. The arrests, killings of unarmed Blacks by police, COVID-19 racial health inequities, and the January 6 white nationalist act of sedition made visible fault lines between a biopolitical system set up to care for whites and a necropolitical system that treats Black bodies as expendable. By critiquing the facile overuse of biopolitics and biopower, this article also speaks to what COVID-19 uncovered within the academy.
人类学家运用米歇尔·福柯关于生命政治的理论来批判现代制度。然而,尽管生命政治有用,但它常常被误用。警察逮捕并杀害手无寸铁的黑人、新冠疫情中的种族健康不平等,以及1月6日白人至上主义者的煽动叛乱行为,都凸显了为照顾白人而建立的生命政治体系与将黑人身体视为可牺牲的死亡政治体系之间的裂痕。通过批判对生命政治和生命权力的过度滥用,本文也探讨了新冠疫情在学术界所揭示的问题。