Biopolitics and Development: Governmentality in Egypt

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Assistant Lecturer, Department of Political Science, Faculty of Management, Economics and Information Systems, Misr University of Science and Technology - 6th of October City.

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French philosopher Michel Foucault is presented as the founding father of the concept of biopolitics, although the concept predates his theses. This is due to the importance of Foucault's approach to the concept, which made many scholars build on his important initial contributions to the various social and natural sciences.
The term biopolitics has witnessed great interest from political science researchers in recent years, especially political economy's scholars. largely due to the different explanations of the term presented by a number of thinkers at the beginning of the twenty-first century, especially Hardt and Negri, which came to link biopolitics with neoliberalism closely. Then talk about "Governmentality" as an art of government concerned with managing the lives and subjects of the population.
Studies dealing with the concept and its theoretical aspects in the context of the countries of the South have been scarce, despite many of them suffered from neoliberal policies. Egypt under the rule of former President Mubarak is not an exception with regard to countries that pursue governance to conform to neoliberal policies that seek to implement them, which this article seeks to address.

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