The biopolitics of security: Oil, Empire and the sports utility vehicle

Campbell, D.

Abstract

Campbell focuses on biopolitical power, which is distinguished from sovereign power by its focus on preserving the life of the population rather than the safety of the sovereign or the security of territory. He argues that the sense of fading national colors is being resisted by the reassertion of national identity boundaries through foreign policy's writing of danger in a range of cultural sites.

Citation

Campbell, D. (2005). The biopolitics of security: Oil, Empire and the sports utility vehicle. American Quarterly, 57(3), 943-972. https://doi.org/10.1353/aq.2005.0041

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Publication Date: 2005-09
• Deposit Date: Nov 17, 2006
• Journal: American Quarterly
• Print ISSN: 0003-0678
• Electronic ISSN: 1080-6490
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 57
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 943-972
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aq.2005.0041
• Keywords: Biopolitical power, National identity, Foreign policy, Culture, War on Terror.
• Publisher URL: http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/american_quarterly/v057/57.3campbell.pdf