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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Pele, Antonio
• Riley, Stephen

Titel

For a Right to Health Beyond Biopolitics: The Politics of Pandemic and the ‘Politics of Life’

Ist Teil von

• Law, culture and the humanities, 2021-02, p.174387212097820

Erscheinungsjahr

2021

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Alma/SFX Local Collection

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• We argue, drawing on the work of Didier Fassin, that the right to health can be understood as an essential part of a radical politics of life. Since the right to health implies fostering the well-being of individuals in a way that is structural, progressive and non-discriminatory, the right not only problematises the ‘governmentality’ approach to power but allows push-back against statist and market discourses through a specific phenomenology of right. The discourse of rights – like the pandemic itself – oscillates between general and particular in a way that makes normative responses unstable. Nonetheless it is this dialectic that is characteristic of human rights discourse and allows a right to health to be the proper response to pandemic without it being subsumed within neoliberal logic. A politics of life is a multi-focussed analysis of life, health and society potentially resisting the appropriation of biological life by neoliberalism.