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ISSN 2442-8469

Vol. 16 / No. 1 / Published : 2016-01

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Original Article :

The u.s. homeland security’s biopolitics in the age of “terrorism”

Author :

  1. Andrianoavina Tolotra*1
  1. Department of Anglophone Studies, University of Antananarivo

Abstract :

AbstrakMakalah  ini  membahas  biopolitik  dan  keamanan  dalam  konteks  terorisme  dan  melihat  implikasi dari pergeseran orientasi ini terhadap hubungan antara negara dan populasi. Studi ini menawarkan analisis kritis terhadap aparatus keamanan yang diberlakukan oleh pemerintah AS dalam perang melawan terorisme. Penelitian ini menggunakan pendekatan filosofis atau yang disebut filsafat sains. Salah satu aliran dalam pendekatan ini adalah social studies of science (SSS), yang mendalami bagaimana sains terjalin dalam kehidupan sosial. Makalah ini menunjukkan bahwa proses pengamanan imigrasi dan penguatan keamanan dalam negeri di Amerika Serikat merupakan tanda-tanda transformasi di mana bentuk pemerintahan yang berorientasi pada keamanan transnasional telah menggantikan“kekuasaan pastoral.” Argumen yang dikemukakan dalam makalah ini adalah bahwa keputusan politik mengenai keamanan negara menyiratkan kontrol tubuh berdasarkan norma-norma tertentu. Hal ini dimaksudkan untuk menjamin kelangsungan hidup populasi sebagai entitas yang homogen, tetapi juga mengakibatkan pemisahan entitas yang layak dan tidak layak untuk hidup dan legal/ilegal dalam keadaan tertentu. Manajemen risiko menjadi wajah lain promosi kebebasan yang di dalamnya terdapat teknologi biopolitika pemerintah, seperti asuransi, pengawasan, penahanan, penyiksaan, dan hukuman mati, dalam mengontrol populasi.Kata kunci: biopolitika, Foucault, keamanan, perang terhadap terorismeAbstractThis paper discusses biopolitics and security within the context of terrorism and sees the implications of this shift of orientation to the relation of the modern state and the population. This study employs a philosophical approach on studying security apparatus deployed by the U.S. Homeland Security in  the  fight  against  terrorism,  or  the  so  called  philosophy  of  science.  One  specific  strand  of  this approach is social studies of science (SSS), which scrutinizes how science is entwined in the social. This  paper  suggests  that  the  processes  of  securitization  of  immigration  and  the  reinforcement  of homeland security at the expense of a welfare state are the signs of a transformation where forms of governmentality oriented towards a transnational security have substituted the protecting and reassuring of “pastoral power.” It is also argued that political decisions regarding security implies the scrutinization of bodies regarding certain norms which in return guarantee the viability of population as a homogeneous entity and thus result in the separation of lives as worthy and unworthy, legal/ illegal  under  certain  circumstances.  The  management  of  risk  becomes  another  face  of  promoting freedom where vast biopolitical technologies of government emerged, such as insurance, surveillance, detention, torture, and death punishment, in controlling the population.Keywords: biopolitics, Foucault, security, war on terrorism

Keyword :

biopolitics, Foucault, security, war on terrorism,


References :

Campbell, D. ,(2005) The Biopolitics of Security: Oil, Empire, and the Sports Utility Vehicle (3): 943-972. : American Quarterly 57





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