biopower

== English == === Etymology === From bio- +‎ power, calque of French biopouvoir, coined by Michel Foucault. === Noun === biopower (uncountable) (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. Bioenergy. ==== Translations ==== ==== See also ==== biopolitics necropower === Further reading === biopower on Wikipedia.Wikipedia