The Biopolitics of National Belonging in the Baltic–Black Sea Region (original) (raw)

Baltic-Black Sea Regionalisms, 2019

Abstract

In this chapter, we propose to look at cross-/trans-border regionalism through the prism of biopolitics as a particular analytical lens appropriate for discussing a “regime of belonging” grounded in policies of protecting and taking care of people’s lives and physical bodies. Corporeality, central to biopower, goes beyond spatial (as in geopolitics) and blood-based (as in ethnopolitics) regimes of belonging, yet in the meantime constructs its own limitations and restraints, and produces its own relations of power projected beyond the established territorial units or ethno-cultural entities. These theoretical premises will be projected onto the countries of the Baltic–Black Sea region, with examples of Poland and Estonia as major illustrative cases.

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