Biopower became a traveling theory reshaped far beyond Foucault

Evidence

Although the notion of biopower was not coined by Foucault, he established the concept and approach as crit- ical tools to examine the production and management of populations on the social scientific agenda. Ever since its Foucaultian elaboration, the concept of biopower has taken a life of its own, it has become a traveling theory (Willaert, 2012), subjected to further elaborations, amendments, and critiques. — Sarah Bracke and Luis Manuel Hernández Aguilar, “They Love Death as We Love Life”, 509

Categorization

• DEFINE: Establishes biopower’s origin, its object (production and management of populations), and its mutation into a traveling theory.