Biopolitics

The term "biopolitics" or "biopolitical" can refer to several different yet often compatible concepts.

The term originates with Rudolf Kjellén in the 1920s who also coined the term geopolitics. In contemporary US political science studies, usage of the term is mostly divided between a post-modernist group using the meaning assigned by Michel Foucault (denoting social and political power over life) and another group who uses it to denote studies relating biology and political science.