The ESRC Seminar Series on Contemporary Biopolitics of Security has now concluded. A report on each of the four events can be found by clicking on this link.

The Emerging Securities Unit and the Biopolitics of Security Network wishes to thank all participants for lively discussions and timely contributions to the development of the biopolitics of security as a distinctive area of research.

 

The Biopolitics of Security Network is now being hosted by the Emerging Securities Unit @ Keele, Research Institute for Law, Politics, and Justice, Keele University

 

"... freedom is nothing but the correlative development of apparatuses of security."

(Michel Foucault, Sécurité, Territoire, Population)

What happens to power relations when power takes life as its referent object? What mechanisms and technologies are deployed by power relations that take life as their field of formation? What mechanisms and micro practices of governmental regulation emerge when the basic biological features of the human species become the object of political strategisation? (see more)

The Biopolitics of Security Network is a web-based multi-functional research platform and post-graduate teaching facility. It facilitates coordination of research initiatives and acts as forum for over seventy academics around the world working on the study of biopolitics and security. The network gathers data on the development of biopolitical security mechanisms including those especially concerned with biometrics and surveillance; governance through insurance; governance through contingency, resilience and risk; and changing theorisation on biopolitics in response to developments in population science, health, medicine and the life sciences. The network documents allied projects in the biopolitics of security, disseminates research findings through the web-platform, and consolidates an entrepreneurial group of intellectual academics working on these areas.