The Biopoiltics of Right-Wing Populism: The People, The Population and Racializing Assemblages

右翼民粹主义的生物政治学：人民、人口和种族化组合

• 批准号: 2887986
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Brighton
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2887986
• 关键词: Biopoiltics; Right; Wing; Populism; People

This research aims to offer a more specific insight into racialised violence under current conditions of capitalist democracy by drawing upon populism studies and biopolitical theory so that we can interrogate racial violence produced by right-wing populism as well as put us in a better position to discuss what constitutes a more democratic practice of biopolitics. We currently live in a "populist moment" (Mouffe,2018) whereby the internal antagonism between "the elite" and "the people" has been exploited by right-wing populist actors to produce a social frontier on the grounds of race. This is due to the continued lack of democratic control over many aspects of ordinary people's lives (Canovan,1999). Additionally, although biopolitical theory does offer an account of racism (Foucault,1975-76; Agamben,1998; Esposito,2008), since the Covid-19 pandemic, questions around how biopolitical mechanisms are deployed to police "the people" and its outside have come to the forefront. I argue that it is necessary to study this problem by drawing on both populism and biopolitics because populism's emphasis on formulation and political strategy means that there is no thorough survey of history and its effects on the construction of "the people" on the grounds of race, it only offers the means to reinterpret the discursive construction of these social movements. Yet, this normative element is something that is missing from biopolitical theory. Although theorists such as Mbembe (2003) offer an account of biopolitics that situates race at the heart of their work, it is too focused on diagnoses. Biopolitical mechanisms do not operate in a political vacuum, and the ideologies and discourses which underpin them warrant investigation. Yet, in both bodies of thought, there remains a profound yet unconfronted ambiguity in how racialised body features. A theoretical encounter is required, which shall be staged through this research project to overcome this.

这项研究旨在通过利用民粹主义研究和生物政治理论来提供对种族化暴力行为的更具体见解，以便我们可以审问右翼民粹主义所产生的种族暴力，并使我们更加更好地讨论构成更民主的生物质主实践的更好的位置。我们目前生活在“民粹主义时刻”（Mouffe，2018年）中，在这种时刻，“精英”和“人民”之间的内部对抗已被右翼民粹主义演员利用，以种族的理由来建立社会前沿。这是由于持续缺乏对普通百姓生活许多方面的民主控制（Canovan，1999）。此外，尽管生物政治理论确实提供了种族主义的描述（Foucault，1975-76； Agamben，1998； Esposito，2008），因为Covid-19的大流行质疑是关于如何将生物政治机制部署到警察“人民”及其外部的最前沿的问题。我认为有必要通过利用民粹主义和生物政治来研究这个问题，因为民粹主义对制定和政治策略的重视意味着，没有对历史及其对种族建构的影响的彻底调查，它仅提供了对这些社会运动的典型构建的手段。然而，这种规范性要素是生物政治理论中缺少的东西。尽管诸如Mbembe（2003）之类的理论家提供了一个生物政治的描述，这些生物政治是他们工作的核心，但它过于专注于诊断。生物政治机制并不是在政治真空中运作的，而支持它们的意识形态和话语值得调查。然而，在这两个思想的身体中，关于种族化的身体的特征仍然存在深刻而又不在的歧义。需要一个理论上的相遇，应通过此研究项目进行克服。