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What is Biopower

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Mainstreaming Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion as Future Workplace Ethics
A power that exerts a positive influence on life, that endeavours to administer, optimize, and multiply it, subjecting it to precise controls and comprehensive regulations.
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Homo Precarious: Lifelong Learning as Social Control
Georgios Dourgkounas (Hellenic Open University, Greece)
Copyright: © 2022 |Pages: 22
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-3657-8.ch007
Abstract
The aim of this study is to present an alternative approach to lifelong learning that contradicts the prevailing political rhetoric and highlights the role of lifelong learning as a mechanism to subjugate and control subjects, with the aim of increasing the profitability of companies and employers. Particular attention is paid to the ideological content of the concept of lifelong learning, to the way in which lifelong learning functions as a form of biopower, and to its connection with the emergence of a new ‘dangerous' class of the precariat.
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Indigenous Peoples in the Midst of COVID-19: Populism and Nationalism as Impediments to Global Solidarity
Refers to the way states and governments manage entire populations on the basis of health protocols, rules and policies that are meant to control the behavior of people.
Published in Chapter: Indigenous Peoples in the Midst of COVID-19: Populism and Nationalism as Impediments to Global Solidarity; From: Handbook of Research on the Impact of COVID-19 on Marginalized Populations and Support for the Future
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