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Special Issue on Biopower At Europe’s Eastern Margins

Biopolitics, ideology, and citizenship

Pages 131-146 | Published online: 08 Oct 2018
 

ABSTRACT

This article aims to prove that debates on the concept of citizenship eventually demonstrate the ideological underpinnings of biopolitics. Citizenship, discussed especially in the context of bioethical considerations, reflects an ideologically polarized conflict about human nature rather than the simple mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion typical for post-ideological biopolitics. The article describes such a perspective and investigates post-socialist Polish biopolitics to outline the possible levels of analysis and to present how the concept of citizenship may be used to better understand contemporary power relations.

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No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author.

Notes

1. Original name: Ustawa z dnia 7 stycznia 1993 r. o planowaniu rodziny, ochronie płodu ludzkiego i warunkach dopuszczalności przerywania ciąży.

2. Original name: Kryteria i sposób stwierdzenia trwałego i nieodwracalnego ustania czynności mózgu ustalone przez specjalistów z dziedzin medycyny: anestezjologii i intensywnej terapii, neurologii, neurochirurgii oraz medycyny sądowej z dn. 2007–07-17.

3. Original name: Poselski projekt ustawy o zmianie ustawy o planowaniu rodziny, ochronie płodu ludzkiego i warunkach dopuszczalności przerywania ciąży oraz o zmianie Kodeksu karnego z dn. 1995–12-14.

4. Original name: Poselski projekt ustawy o ochronie genomu ludzkiego i embrionu ludzkiego oraz Polskiej Radzie Bioetycznej i zmianie innych ustaw z dn. 2009–08-28.

5. Original text: „Można mieć nadzieję, iż wybory do parlamentu, które odbyły się 19 września 1993 r. eliminujące, w poważnym stopniu partie polityczne o klerykalnym obliczu stwarzają szanse na uchwalenie nowych, bardziej humanitarnych ustaw, silniej respektujących głos opinii publicznej i prawa kobiety do stanowienia o swoim losie.”

Additional information

Funding

Research No. 2958-PSM funded by the Faculty of Political Science and International Studies, Nicolaus Copernicus University.

Notes on contributors

Bartosz Płotka

Bartosz Płotka, MA – a doctoral student at the Department of Political Theory, Faculty of Political Science and International Studies, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Thorn, Poland. Interested in political philosophy with main emphasis on the relations between bioethics and biopolitics. Preparing a thesis on the biopolitical thought in post-socialist Poland.

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