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(political science) The sum of the various techniques used by modern nation-states to control not individual subjects but their entire populations, as contrasted with traditional modes of power based on the threat of death from a sovereign..
The third type of power, biopower, emerges from the eighteenth century onward, and is directed toward populations rather than individual bodies.
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Biopower means (political science) The sum of the various techniques used by modern nation-states to control not individual subjects but their entire populations, as contrasted with traditional modes of power based on the threat of death from a sovereign..
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The third type of power, biopower, emerges from the eighteenth century onward, and is directed toward populations rather than individual bodies.
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