Κοινωνική Πολιτική και Βιοπολιτική. Από την ταξική αντιπαράθεση στη «μικροφυσική της εξουσίας»
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After defining the content, the functions and the social-theoretical background of social policy, we indicate the epistemological and methodological parameters that frame the analytical category of biopolitics. The indication is important a) because of the increasingly use of social policy as biopolitics and b) because the essentialism of power that characterize the «paradigm” of biopolitics transfer social politics from the realm of class conflict (for rear resources and means) to the labyrinth of power relations.It is about a “paradigm” shift, as in the case of biopolitics doesn’t exist concrete social subjects, meaning social classes, neither central poles of power (state, capital, supranational institutions etc.). Class relations are more derivatives of power relations. Consequently, the indication of methodological issues that derives from the extensive use of biopolitics will highlight the analytical capability and its use in social policy’s issues.
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Αλεξίου Θ. (2017). Κοινωνική Πολιτική και Βιοπολιτική. Από την ταξική αντιπαράθεση στη «μικροφυσική της εξουσίας». Social Policy, 5, 5–28. https://doi.org/10.12681/sp.10598
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