15SCSC061 - Introduction to Biopolitics

Course specification
Course title		Introduction to Biopolitics
Acronym		15SCSC061
Study programme		Sociology
Module
Type of study		first degree undergraduate academic studies
Lecturer (for classes)		prof. dr Dušan Marinković
Lecturer/Associate (for practice)		as. Sara Major
Lecturer/Associate (for OTC)
ESPB		3.0	Status
Condition		-	Oblik uslovljenosti
The goal		The aim of this course is to present to the students different socio-historical and political aspects of the power over life, conceptions of biopolitics and biopower in the context of the contemporary social changes. This general aim could be specified as following: a) understanding of the sociological and historical aspects of the genealogy of biopolitics; b) analytical thinking and understanding of the relations between politics, science, corporeality and life in contemporary social and cultural processes.
The outcome		After the completion of this course, students will learn the most important concepts, models and theories on biopolitics. In addition, students will be able for the independent and critical assessment of the historical, cultural and sociological aspects of biopolitics.
Contents
Contents of lectures		Theoretical teaching includes the presentation and explanation of the following thematic units: 1. orders of power/knowledge: sovereignty, discipline, regulation; 2. historical emergence of a new biological order; 3. medicalization of society and the new technologies of social control; 4. concepts of biopolitics; 5. modern politics and regulation of life; 6. risk management and security issues in the global social order; 7. neoliberalism and governmentality; 8. politics of borders in global social processes; 9. concept of biopower; 10. body, corporeality and identity; 11. biopolitics of the information society; 12. posthumanism.
Contents of exercises		Readings of the key articles and parts of the books in the field of biopolitics; analysis and discussion of various textual and audio-visual materials, presentation of seminar papers and essays.
Literature
Agamben, Giorgio. 1998. Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press Beck, Ulrich.1992. Risk society. London: Sage Publications. Foucault, Michel. 2010. The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1978--1979. New York: Picador, Palgrave Macmillan. Fuko, Mišel. 2012. Moć/znanje. Novi Sad: Mediterran Publishing. (Original title) Michel Foucault. 1978. The History of Sexuality. Volume I: The will to knowledge. New York: Pantheon Books.
Number of hours per week during the semester/trimester/year
Lectures	Exercises	OTC	Study and Research	Other classes
2	1
Methods of teaching		Lectures, readings and discussions, seminars, writing and presentation of the analyzed text, consultations.
Knowledge score (maximum points 100)
Pre obligations		Points	Final exam	Points
Activites during lectures		5	Test paper	0
Practical lessons		5	Oral examination	60
Projects		10
Colloquia		0
Seminars		20

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