CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2022
| Author | Aydogan, Yagmur |
|---|---|
| Title | A New Gaze to Biopower: Understanding the Covid-19 Pandemic and the Question Of Liberties From a Foucauldian Perspective |
| Summary | The Foucauldian conception of biopower addresses to technology of power that manages populations. The roots of biopower can be traced back to the foundation of the modern nation state in the West and the rise of capitalism. It manages populations through different disciplinary institutions such as schools, hospitals, prisons, and psychiatry clinics. These institutions encode the human behavior and disciplines the body over the mind. Covid-19 pandemic has also been one the indicators to perceive this disciplinary mechanism. In this context, limitation of the civil liberties has been an apparatus to manage the population which was fed by fear and the feeling of responsibility. Austria, in this case, stands as a significant example as it has been the strictest Western country in terms of restrictions during the times of Covid-19, especially with the mandatory vaccination declaration. This paper will look at the question of civil liberties during the times of Covid-19 pandemic from a Foucauldian perspective. It reflects Austria as an instance by discourse analysis. |
| Supervisor | Miklosi Zoltan |
| Department | Political Science MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2022/aydogan_yagmur.pdf |
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