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In his Collège de France lectures of the late 1970s, Foucault developed the notion of bio-politics, an idea that he used to discuss how discourses of biology had come to ground politics. Biopolitics describes contexts where power is exerted through the production of ‘populations’ that can be controlled, regulated, and disciplined. It concerns a shift […]

Liminality is an anthropological term, first coined by van Gennep in his 1909 book Rites of Passage. The word is derived from the Latin limen, which means ‘threshold’. Liminality refers to the ambivalence, confusion, or disorientation experienced in the middle stage of a rite of passage, when participants no longer hold their pre-ritual status but have not […]

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