This article reviews the debate on bio‐politics in order to clarify its many uses and applications in geography. In doing so, I review how bio‐politics is conceived by Foucault, Hardt and Negri, and Agamben, as well as how geographers have employed, added to, or disagreed with their insights. More specifically, I structure this review around how various analysts have understood the relationship between bio‐political power and ‘traditional’ forms of sovereign power, and, relatedly, how a focus by geographers on micro‐scales of analysis can help explore this relationship.
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