Practical Biopolitics of COVID-19

Indonesian and Russian Experiences

Andrey Makarychev, Gede Wahyu Wicaksana (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

122 Seiten

2023
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-6669-5213-1 (ISBN)

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The book introduces the concept of practical biopolitics and discusses its applicability for anti-pandemic crisis management in Indonesia and Russia. The authors scrutinize the functioning of sovereign power and governmentality during the state of exception.

Practical Biopolitics of COVID-19: Indonesian and Russian Experiences consists in applying biopolitical theorizing – in particular, the concept of practical biopolitics – as a framework for studying different experiences and policies of tackling health and medical crises. The book explains how the COVID-19 pandemic transformed the enormity of interconnections between life and politics, and the ensuing challenges for political actors in Indonesia and Russia.. Practical biopolitics as a concept includes different regimes of care and protection, along with different techniques of governing human lives and administering healthcare, conditioned by the self-securing and self-sustaining public “conduct of the conduct”. Practical biopolitics is a sub-field of that, which comprises analysis of specific policy practices and administrative and managerial tools, and the measures that governments apply to fight health threats. The book raises a number of questions: how did the COVID-19 state of global alert transform the conceptual vocabulary of politics? How different national experiences of crisis management during a pandemic might be compared with each other, and how these comparisons might be theorized in terms of national sovereignties, good governance, and public policy, and foreign policy?

Andrey Makarychev is Professor of Regional Political Studies at the University of Tartu Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies. I Gede Wahyu Wicaksana is a senior International Relations lecturer in the Department of International Relations Faculty of Social and Political Sciences Universitas Airlangga in Surabaya, Indonesia.

Introduction
Chapter 1. The Practical Biopolitics of the Pandemic: A Multifaceted Theory
Chapter 2. Practical Biopolitics in Russia: from Pandemic to War
Chapter 3. Anti-Pandemic Crisis Management in Indonesia
Conclusion

Erscheinungsdatum	07.09.2023
Zusatzinfo	1 tables;
Sprache	englisch
Maße	161 x 240 mm
Gewicht	349 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Vergleichende Politikwissenschaften
ISBN-10	1-6669-5213-3 / 1666952133
ISBN-13	978-1-6669-5213-1 / 9781666952131
Zustand	Neuware